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Black Legacies

Author : Lynn T. Ramey
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813055046

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Black Legacies looks at color-based prejudice in medieval and modern texts in order to reveal key similarities. Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe’s Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. Using historical, literary, and artistic sources, Lynn Ramey shows that twelfth- and thirteenth-century discourse was preoccupied with skin color and the coding of black as “evil” and white as “good.” Ramey demonstrates that fears of miscegenation show up in all medieval European societies. She pinpoints these same ideas in the rhetoric of later centuries. Mapmakers and travel writers of the colonial era used medieval lore of “monstrous peoples” to question the humanity of indigenous New World populations, and medieval arguments about humanness were employed to justify the slave trade. Ramey even analyzes how race is explored in films set in medieval Europe, revealing an enduring fascination with the Middle Ages as a touchstone for processing and coping with racial conflict in the West today.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307574442

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith−published here in their entirety for the first time−Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.

Black Legacy

Author : William Dillon Piersen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029581611

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Drawing on folktales, oral histories, religious rituals and music, this book explores the pervasive influence of African traditions on American life. Pierson aims to reinterpret American history in a way that disrupts conventional assumptions and turns racial stereotypes inside out.

Timelines from Black History

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744044775

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Erased. Ignored. Hidden. Lost. Underappreciated. No longer. Delve into the unique, inspiring, and world-changing history of Black people. Black leaders, writers, civil rights activists, scientists, and more have influenced, inspired, and changed the societies we live in. This history book’s pages are filled with the stories of these historical giants and their contributions to the world. Grow Your Understanding of Black History This children’s book, prefaced by Mireille Harper, introduces children to prominent Black people in history such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, and Dr. Martin Luther King. The timelines have been individually commissioned, with the stunning visual designs reflecting the essence of that particular historical person. This visual reflection from DK Books will compel children to investigate further and understand world history and the important roles Black people played in shaping it: • Features an equal number of timelines about women and men • Explores the amazing stories of incredible figures often ignored by European-focused history • Covers key moments in European, Caribbean, North American and African history, taking readers from pre-colonial Africa through the Jim Crow Era and the Civil Rights Movement to today’s Black Lives Matter movement • Created, designed, written, and edited by a multicultural team from many different nations, heritages, communities, faiths, and no faiths From Mansa Musa to Barack Obama; learn about more than 100 Black leaders and historical individuals, and discover the 30 timelines from throughout world history in this compelling children’s Black history book. Learn about Lewis Latimer and his integral contributions to the lightbulb, of how Ethiopia avoided colonisation thanks to its brave queen, and many more important moments in world and Black history. Pages of visual representations take children, adolescents, and adults on a trip through history. Stacked with facts and visually vibrant, Timelines From Black History: Leaders, Legacies, Legends is an unforgettable and accessible hive of information on the people and the issues that have shaped Black history.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

Author : Angela Y. Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780679771265

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Pdf

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful articulations of an alternative consciousness profoundly at odds with mainstream American culture. The works of Rainey, Smith, and Holiday have been largely misunderstood by critics. Overlooked, Davis shows, has been the way their candor and bravado laid the groundwork for an aesthetic that allowed for the celebration of social, moral, and sexual values outside the constraints imposed by middle-class respectability. Through meticulous transcriptions of all the extant lyrics of Rainey and Smith—published here in their entirety for the first time—Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a conciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory. A stunning, indispensable contribution to American history, as boldly insightful as the women Davis praises, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism is a triumph.

Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature

Author : Apryl Lewis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666921397

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Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature by Apryl Lewis Pdf

Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature expands on a literary tradition where Black writers articulate the impact of slavery's legacy over time. Along with Black Feminist studies, this book demonstrates how trauma studies can transcend Eurocentric roots by encompassing traumatic experiences of other cultures through intersectionality.

Flight

Author : Chuck Black
Publisher : Starlore Legacy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0991573560

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Flight by Chuck Black Pdf

Ancient prophecies promise a future of hope, but who dares face the wrath of a powerful tyrant? Daeson seeks the counsel of the oracle that propelled him into a life of ruin and terrifying adventure. But the ruthless Chancellor Lockridge offers no quarter to his life-long friend turned traitor. Lockridge's thirst for revenge spills the blood of thousands of innocent Rayleans, and Daeson bears the burden of global calamity. Rejected by all except the spirited Raviel, Daeson struggles to carry on. When the whispers of the Immortal Ell Yon beckon Daeson to a remote moon of the planet Mesos, he must find the courage to face his deepest fears. Can Daeson trust the words of an ancient Immortal and inspire the slaves of Jypton to rise up? Not only does the future of his people hang in the balance, but the entire galaxy as well!

Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University

Author : rosalind hampton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9781487524869

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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University by rosalind hampton Pdf

A historical narrative and critical analysis of higher education centred on the experiences of Black students and faculty at McGill University.

Bittersweet Legacy

Author : Janette Thomas Greenwood
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807849561

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Bittersweet Legacy by Janette Thomas Greenwood Pdf

Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and p

Afrolantica Legacies

Author : Derrick Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025149811

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Afrolantica Legacies by Derrick Bell Pdf

Bell is still deeply interested in issues of race relations and has chosen to explore the subject fictionally in ""Afrolantica Legacies."" In a nutshell, the story goes like this: a mysterious land mass suddenly appears in the Atlantic Ocean, a fabulous island on which only black people can survive. American blacks set sail to the island to begin a new life, only to see it sink again before they can reach the shore.

Reclaiming African American Students: Legacies, Lessons, and Prescriptions

Author : Mildred L. Rice Jordan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781491785089

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Reclaiming African American Students: Legacies, Lessons, and Prescriptions by Mildred L. Rice Jordan Pdf

This book gives an intimate look into the history of an African American National Historic Site that was located in Bordentown, New Jersey. It was known by many names: Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth; M.T.I.S.; or the Tuskegee of the North. Most commonly, however, it was called just the Bordentown School. Bordentown was founded in 1886 by an ex-slave, Walter Allen Simpson Rice. Afer serving in the Civil War, Rice came north and became affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.). Seeing great promise in him, the church sent him to seminary to become a minister. Rice dreamed of uplifting his people but had limited resources with which to make his dreams a reality. However, he did have great faith in God, and his faith inspired him to start a boarding school. With only eight colored students he began his school in an old frame house. He did not live to see this school become one of the nest institutions of learning for colored high-school youth in the northeast. However, Reverend Rice and the principals who followed him have legacy behind a legacy which has invaluable lessons and great potential for developing educational prescriptions which will, at their foundation, give all black students a culturally affirming, culturally relevant education. This book clearly states that no matter how complicated and technologically sophisticated our Society becomes, the Bordentown Schools philosophy, policies, and practices can still be a model which can be adapted for Reclaiming African American Students in the 21st Century.

Imperial Legacies

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781641770392

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Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.

International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma

Author : Yael Danieli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781475755671

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International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma by Yael Danieli Pdf

In this extraordinary new text, the contributors explore the enduring legacy of such social shocks as war, genocide, slavery, tyranny, crime, and disease. Among the cases addressed are: instances of genocide in Turkey, Cambodia, and Russia, the plight of the families of Holocaust survivors, atomic bomb survivors in Japan, and even the children of Nazis, the long-term effects associated with the Vietnam War and the war in Yugoslavia, and the psychology arising from the legacy of slavery in America.

Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment

Author : Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351529570

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Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard Pdf

Domestic and international health activism and health policy are focal points in this volume, a publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This work demonstrates the continuing importance of the "medical civil rights movement," through examples of activism of women of colour in AIDS service organizations, of their health issues, and of the struggle for racial equity in health care in Brazil.Spikes in police and vigilante violence, as well as fear of a reversion to resegregated schools have brought a new urgency to black political activism. The contributors explore the effect of race on American attitudes toward immigration policy and reform, black state legislators and American morality politics, the historically disproportionate influence of Southern whites in American politics, and the undermining of school desegregation laws with "nullification" strategies. The volume's Trends section features conversations on the #BlackLivesMatter movement in Los Angeles, the 2016 presidential election, and examines the teaching of the Trayvon Martin story at the University of California, Irvine. The volume also includes a diverse selection of book reviews.

Unsung Legacies of Educators and Events in African American Education

Author : Andrea D. Lewis,Nicole A. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319901282

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Unsung Legacies of Educators and Events in African American Education by Andrea D. Lewis,Nicole A. Taylor Pdf

This book describes the contributions of twenty-two educators and events that have shaped the field of education, often receiving little to no public recognition, including: Edmonia Godelle Highgate, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Selena Sloan Butler, Alonzo Aristotle Crim, Sabbath Schools, and African American Boarding Schools. These individuals and events have established and sustained education in communities across the United States. This book will help foster a renewed sense of importance both for those considering teaching and for teachers in classrooms across the country.