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Early American Studies: Revolutions and Reconstructions: Black Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

Revolutions and Reconstructions gathers historians of the early republic the Civil War era and African American and political history to consider not whether black people participated in the politics of the nineteenth century but how when and with... more

Studies in African American History and Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing (Paperback)

This book engages cosmopolitanism-a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality-in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply... more

Studies in African American History and African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies Property and Power in the Antebellum South 1800-1860 Book 39 (Hardcover)

Disability is often mentioned in discussions of slave health mistreatment and abuse but constructs of how able and disabled bodies influenced the institution of slavery has gone largely overlooked. This volume uncovers a history of disability in... more

Studies in African American History and Culture: Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in U.S. Women s Writing of the 1890s (Paperback)

Is knowledge power? In Teach the Nation Anne-Elizabeth Murdy explores the history and contradictions in the notion that education and literacy are vital means for improving social and political status in the US. By closely examining the rapidly... more

Pre-Owned Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African-American and South African Writing (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780252084829) by Stephane Robolin

9780252084829. Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified. New Black Studies. Part literary history part cultural study Grounds of Engagement examines the... more

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book: Jim Crow Networks : African American Periodical Cultures (Paperback)

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Studies in African American History and Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s: Blackness and Genre (Paperback)

During the early years of the motion picture industry black performers were often depicted as shuckin and jivin caricatures. Specifically black males were portrayed as toms coons and bucks while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed... more

Studies in African American History and Words and Songs of Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina Simone: Sound Motion Blues Spirit and African Memory (Paperback)

This book explores the relationship between three African American women s dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith Billie Holiday and Nina... more

Keywords for American Cultural Studies 9780814799482 Used / Pre-owned

Essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy cultural anthropology and ethnic studies African American history and performance studies gender studies and political theory CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

Oxford Paperbacks Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (Paperback)

When George M. Fredrickson published White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History he met universal acclaim. David Brion Davis writing in The New York Times Book Review called it one of the most brilliant and successful... more

The New African American Urban History (Paperback)

While earlier studies often portrayed African Americans as passive or powerless as victims of white racism or slum pathologies this book emphasizes new scholarship which conveys a sense of active involvement of people empowered engaged in struggle... more

Studies in African American History and Audience Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture (Paperback)

Audience Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature media and art Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black... more

Studies in African American History and The Graduate Grind Book 1421 (Paperback)

Examining common assumptions and routines through the lens of critical theory the authors question several aspects of graduate education including the conception of graduate students as institutional capital; institutionalized prejudice based on age... more

Studies in African American History and Slavery Southern Culture and Education in Little Dixie Missouri 1820-1860 (Paperback)

This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860 and in particular the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education (broadly defined as the transmission of Southern... more

Pre-Owned Harlem Renaissance (Paperback) 0195016653 9780195016659

A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award hailed by The New York Times Book Review as brilliant and provocative Nathan Huggins Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being... more

Before the Mayflower; A History of the Negro in America 1619-1962 (Hardcover)

The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed from the Colonial... more

Traders in Men : Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Hardcover)

A sweeping new history that reveals how British African and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave... more

Issues in Historiography: The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America (Paperback)

This book examines the historiography of the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present. It considers how and why the study of African American history developed from being a marginalized subject in American universities and... more

Studies in African American History and Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Critical Assessment (Paperback)

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten s contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence manuscripts personal memorabilia and published materials to examine the origins... more

Racial Integrity and Other Features of the Negro Problem (Paperback)

African-American studies refers to the study of the history culture and politics of Black Americans. This includes the study of African-American literature history politics religion and religious studies sociology and many other humanities and... more

Pre-Owned Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence Resilience (Paperback 9781403960368) by K Rogers

9781403960368. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2006 ed. Language: English. Pages: 214. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 214 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Terrorism black... more

Issues in Historiography: The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America (Hardcover)

This book examines the historiography of the African American freedom struggle from the 1890s to the present. It considers how and why the study of African American history developed from being a marginalized subject in American universities and... more

Studies in Modern History: A History of African-American Leadership (Paperback)

The story of black emancipation is one of the most dramatic themes of American history covering racism murder poverty and extreme heroism. Figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the demigods of the freedom movements both film and... more

Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History 1765-1996: A Social and Cultural History 1765-1996 (Hardcover)

Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and this book examines them from religion in the early republic to early African American religion reform nativism movements and fundamentalism up to the contemporary culture wars in a study that... more

The Negro Migration Of 1916-1918 (Paperback)

Explore the epic journey of African Americans during the Great Migration one of the most transformative events in American history. This comprehensive study based on meticulous research and insightful analysis tells the story of the millions of... more

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature (Paperback)

Through a reading of periodicals memoirs speeches and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race... more

Palgrave Studies in Oral History Sharecropper s Troubadour: John L. Handcox the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the African American Song Tradition (Hardcover)

Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words... more

Studies in African American History and Race Remembering and Jim Crow s Teachers (Paperback)

This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being inherently inferior compared to their white counterparts. However there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as... more

Studies in African American History and The Black Panthers in the Midwest (Hardcover)

This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party specifically those of the Milwaukee branch with the aim of dispelling many of the existing stereotypes about the Party. Misconceptions range from the Party being labeled as bent on... more

Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship: African American Felon Disenfranchisement: Case Studies in Modern Racism and Political Exclusion (Hardcover)

Utilizing a field study on felons that were within one year of completing incarceration Pinkard analyzes the legal history constitutionality conflicting laws political and life chance consequences of felon disenfranchisement laws on African American... more

Studies in African American History and Culture: The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights (Paperback)

The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came... more

Studies in American Popular History and Black Women in New South Literature and Culture (Paperback)

Using the the Negro Problem in African American literature as a point of departure this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans specifically those in the South. Although the South has been... more

Black History Lives: Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History (Hardcover)

This compelling new biography introduces the reader to the constant battles for equality faced by African Americans through a study of the career of Thurgood Marshall who believed in the power of the law to change a society. As a lawyer Thurgood... more

Pre-Owned Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond (Paperback 9780230608719) by D Penner Jimmy Carter K Ferdinand

9780230608719. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2009 ed. Language: English. Pages: 248. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 248 p. Contains: Unspecified. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New... more

Black & African-American Studies Shadow of the Plantation (Paperback)

Shadow of the Plantation focuses on descendants of slaves in one rural Southern community in the early part of this century. In the process Johnson reviews the troubled history of race relations in the United /States. When reread half a century... more

Southern Literary Studies A. Philip Randolph Pioneer (Paperback)

Scholars of the civil rights movement and twentieth-century African American history traditionally refer to Asa Philip Randolph as the organizer of the first all-black labor union the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Paula Pfeffer s aim in this... more

Studies in Dance History: Dancing Many Drums : Excavations In African American Dance (Series #19) (Paperback)

Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores that influence through a groundbreaking collection of essays on African American dance history theory... more

African American: Nat Turner s Slave Rebellion : Including the 1831 Confessions (Paperback)

First full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. The inspiration for the acclaimed 2016 movie Birth of a Nation. more