American category: 24906 books
by Lawrence Schenbeck
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Racial Uplift and American Music 1878-1943 traces the career of racial uplift ideology as a factor in elite African Americans' embrace of classical music around the turn of the previous century, from the collapse of Reconstruction to the death of composer/conductor R. Nathaniel Dett, whose music epitomized...
Raising the Dead
Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2000
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the...
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors—and on twentieth-century American debates about race—Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation...
by Elisabeth Lam Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Never before has there been a cookbook that encompasses the whole world of Latin American cooking. Elisabeth Ortiz is the first to introduce to Americans the entire range of this splendid cuisine, selecting out the vast territory that stretches from Mexico to Chile the mast exciting foods of each...
Latin American Street Food
The Best Flavors of Markets, Beaches, and Roadside Stands from Mexico to Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
From tamales to tacos, food on a stick to ceviches, and empanadas to desserts, Sandra A. Gutierrez's Latin American Street Food takes cooks on a tasting tour of the most popular and delicious culinary finds of twenty Latin American countries, including Mexico, Cuba, Peru, and Brazil, translating them...
Black Frankenstein
The Making of an American Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2008
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure...
The Scary Mason-Dixon Line
African American Writers and the South
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi,...
by Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family. Often, their normal role expectations require that they perform feminized and hypermasculine roles simultaneously. This book focuses on how...
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as...
by Patricia A. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles against injustice is not as well known. With this book, Patricia Schechter restores Wells-Barnett to her central, if embattled,...
by Johnny E. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
What role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues...
by Kimberley L. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Daily Life during African American Migrations focuses attention to the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of migrants in the United States as they established communities far away from their former homes. This book examines blacks' labor and urban experiences, social and political activism,...
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties
An Indian Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Originally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes. Analyzing the history of Indian treaty relations with...
News for All the People
The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed...