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Author : Betty M. Kuyk
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253215765
The survival of African belief systems and social structures in contemporary African American culture
Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429982132
This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.
Author : Gayl Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0674530241
The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving usâe"in lively styleâe"both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. âeoeWhen African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,âe writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty.âe The vitality of African American literature derives from its incorporation of traditional oral forms: folktales, riddles, idiom, jazz rhythms, spirituals, and blues. Jones traces the development of this literature as African American writers, celebrating their oral heritage, developed distinctive literary forms. The twentieth century saw a new confidence and deliberateness in African American work: the move from surface use of dialect to articulation of a genuine black voice; the move from blacks portrayed for a white audience to characterization relieved of the need to justify. Innovative writingâe"such as Charles Waddell Chesnuttâe(tm)s depiction of black folk culture, Langston Hughesâe(tm)s poetic use of blues, and Amiri Barakaâe(tm)s recreation of the short story as a jazz pieceâe"redefined Western literary tradition. For Jones, literary technique is never far removed from its social and political implications. She documents how literary form is inherently and intensely national, and shows how the European monopoly on acceptable forms for literary art stifled American writers both black and white. Jones is especially eloquent in describing the dilemma of the African American writers: to write from their roots yet retain a universal voice; to merge the power and fluidity of oral tradition with the structure needed for written presentation. With this work Gayl Jones has added a new dimension to African American literary history.
Author : Anne Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807055199
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"-share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory.
Author : Burton William Peretti,Jacqueline M Moore,Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0742558118
Looks at the history of African American music from its roots in Africa and slavery to the present day and examines its place within African American communities and the nation as a whole.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:49015002037209
Author : P. Thandika Mkandawire,Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552502044
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Author : Luise White,Stephan Miescher,David William Cohen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0253339480
African Words, African Voices considers African history as an art incorporating the experience and testimony of ordinary Africans. It is a provoative volume that evokes the richness and relevance of oral sources for understanding a complex past.
Author : Timothy Gruenewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1947602152
While visitors to art and history museums may be there to simply enjoy the curated objects, the question of what is included (and excluded) in these collections and who has the power over this process echoes the struggle for inclusion that is so central to the African American experience. Since its inception, the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection® has played an important role in this struggle, seeking out objects that give voice to previously excluded experiences, and providing an alternative to the limits of institutional collections.Among the first scholarly books dedicated to a private African American collection, Rethinking America's Past: Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection both chronicles the reach of this important cultural collection and contributes to its project by sharing selected objects and stories with a broader audience. Essays range in subject from iconic African American artists, such as Loïs Mailou Jones and Beauford Delaney, to important historical figures such as FrederickDouglas and Martin Luther King, to individuals whose experiences might be lost to history but for the found objectsthat preserve their stories. Rethinking America's Past demonstrates how the African American story, from slaverythrough the present, is represented and can be actively remembered through the act of collecting.Rethinking America's Past will appeal to audiences interested in African American history as well as art history, but its real power is in linking the two, showing how important collections are in constructing and repairing historical narratives, and how in the words of editor Tim Gruenewald, "Collecting overlooked aspects of our past and sharing such collectionsenables a deeper understanding of the present moment, and facilitates a more inclusive and just future."
Author : Leslie Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1444339400
Compelling and enlightening, this collection of primary source documents allows twenty-first century students to ‘direct dial’ key figures in African-American history. It includes concise and perceptive commentary along with engaging suggestions for discussion and project work. • Examines key themes from multiple perspectives • Features a diverse range of voices that cut across class and political affiliations as well as across regions and generations • Chronological and thematic coverage from emancipation to the current day • Primary source documents include everything from letters and speeches to photographs, rap lyrics and newspaper reports • Incorporates recent as well as traditional historical interpretations • Classroom-ready text which includes keynotes on documents, differentiated material and engaging discussion questions
Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1444310771
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery thatplaces American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on thehistory of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviewswith former slaves, and letters by African Americans that documentthe experience of bondage Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement thewritten documents Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay
Author : Leslie Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1118291883
"Features a diverse range of voices that cut across class and political affiliations as well as across regions and generations"--
Author : Susan Altman,Joel Kemelhor
Publisher : Checkmark Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816041261
Short entries describe places, political movements, cultures, events, and figures significant to African and African American history.
Author : Anne Caroline Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anlo (African people)
ISBN : 0807055123
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now'--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"--Share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory. From the Trade Paperback edition
Author : Hazel Arnett Ervin,Lois Jamison Sheer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443889551
This book offers a history of African American education, while also serving as a companion text for teachers, students and researchers in cultural criticism, American and African American studies, postcolonialism, historiography, and psychoanalytics. Overall, it represents essential reading for scholars, critics, leaders of educational policy, and all others interested in ongoing discussions not only about the role of community, family, teachers and others in facilitating quality education for the citizenry, but also about ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to, and attainment of, quality education by its constituents of color. Particularly, this volume fills a void in the annals of African American history and African American education, by addressing the vibrancy of an education ethos within Black America which has unequivocally served as cultural, historical, political, legal and theoretical references.