Traveling Black

Author : Mia Bay
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674258693

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Traveling Black by Mia Bay Pdf

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the David J. Langum Prize Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award Winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award Winner of the OAH Liberty Legacy Foundation Award A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of the Year “This extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation...Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “In Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times “Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought to move freely around the United States. But why this focus on Black mobility? From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape in America and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. Mia Bay rescues forgotten stories of passengers who made it home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, or ignored. She shows that Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations, documenting a sustained fight for redress that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the civil rights movement. A riveting, character-rich account of the rise and fall of racial segregation, it reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws—and why free movement has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525559542

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Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf

“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book Review A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, by the bestselling author of The Black Church. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored "home rule" to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation. An essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.

Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787385238

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Travelling While Black by Nanjala Nyabola Pdf

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

Author : Isabel Kalous
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839459539

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Black Travel Writing by Isabel Kalous Pdf

What does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent, scrutinizes the significance of Black mobility, and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions of identity, belonging, history, and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary narratives, her study outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.

Author : Miriam Thaggert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252053528

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Riding Jane Crow by Miriam Thaggert Pdf

Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the travel narratives of Black female intellectuals such as Anna Julia Cooper and Mary Church Terrell; Black middle-class women who sued to ride in first class "ladies’ cars"; Black women railroad food vendors; and Black maids on Pullman trains. Thaggert argues that the railroad represented a technological advancement that was entwined with African American attempts to secure social progress. Black women's experiences on or near the railroad illustrate how American technological progress has often meant their ejection or displacement; thus, it is the Black woman who most fully measures the success of American freedom and privilege, or "progress," through her travel experiences.

Author : Deborah Willis,Ellyn Toscano,Kalia Brooks Nelson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783745685

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Women and Migration by Deborah Willis,Ellyn Toscano,Kalia Brooks Nelson Pdf

The essays in this book chart how women’s profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women’s perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family. The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women’s joy and suffering, disaster and delight, place, memory and identity. This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences.

Author : Mia Bay,Ann Fabian
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813575353

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Race and Retail by Mia Bay,Ann Fabian Pdf

Race has long shaped shopping experiences for many Americans. Retail exchanges and establishments have made headlines as flashpoints for conflict not only between blacks and whites, but also between whites, Mexicans, Asian Americans, and a wide variety of other ethnic groups, who have at times found themselves unwelcome at white-owned businesses. Race and Retail documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic and racial groups. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the original essays collected here explore selling and buying practices of nonwhite populations around the world and the barriers that shape these habits, such as racial discrimination, food deserts, and gentrification. The contributors highlight more contemporary issues by raising questions about how race informs business owners’ ideas about consumer demand, resulting in substandard quality and higher prices for minorities than in predominantly white neighborhoods. In a wide-ranging exploration of the subject, they also address revitalization and gentrification in South Korean and Latino neighborhoods in California, Arab and Turkish coffeehouses and hookah lounges in South Paterson, New Jersey, and tourist capoeira consumption in Brazil. Race and Retail illuminates the complex play of forces at work in racialized retail markets and the everyday impact of those forces on minority consumers. The essays demonstrate how past practice remains in force in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.

Author : Rick Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625849885

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Newport Baseball History by Rick Harris Pdf

The City by the Sea boasts an ambitious baseball history dating back to the early days of America's favorite pastime. In 1897, the Newport Colts became the first professional baseball team to ever tie in a playoff series. By the 1900s, baseball was being played daily on open fields and diamonds throughout Newport. The city has sported six major ball fields, including Cardines Field, host to the oldest continuously running amateur baseball team in the country. Discover the humble beginnings of players like Newport native Frank Corridon, who allegedly invented the now outlawed spitball, and the legacy of the great Trojans baseball club. Team up with baseball historian Rick Harris and walk through the history of Newport baseball from amateur games to the major leagues and all the strikes, homers and grand slams in between.

Author : Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066902415

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Traveling Economies by Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman Pdf

Author : Nanjala Nyabola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787385245

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Travelling While Black by Nanjala Nyabola Pdf

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions - both hers and others'. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.

Author : Gretchen Sorin
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631495700

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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sorin Pdf

Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.

Author : Nadine C Duncan
Publisher : Diary of a Traveling Black Woman: A Guide to International Travel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9798986268040

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Diary of a Traveling Black Woman by Nadine C Duncan Pdf

What is it like for a Traveling Black Woman? What should she expect? How should she prepare? Diary of a Traveling Black Woman: A Guide to International Travel is a travel reference guide written to inspire and inform the journey of Black women who endeavor to travel the globe.

Author : Carolyn Vines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9490906018

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Black and Abroad by Carolyn Vines Pdf

After accepting her Dutch boyfriend's invitation to move from sultry New Orleans, Carolyn finds herself in the land of windmills, wooden shoes and endless gray skies. As she moves away from the remnants of her tragic childhood and America's obsession with race, she is plunged into the depths of homesickness, depression and a declaration of war on her own hair.She travels through motherhood and a career change, and her determination is put to the test. On the way to self-discovery, she ends up finding love, soul sisters and the secret to avoiding bad hair days.In this mid-life memoir, Carolyn writes candidly about how getting engaged in Paris, losing her passport in Cuba and dealing with Dutch people on their bikes (among other quirky adventures) have changed her ideas about being a black woman in the world.

Author : James Macfarlane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Formations (Geology)
ISBN : UOM:39015065253133

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The Geologist's Traveling Hand-book by James Macfarlane Pdf

Author : Nadine Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692403566

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Diary of a Traveling Black Woman by Nadine Duncan Pdf

This is your diary. Buy it. Read it. Plan it. Go! Traveling provides an experience to venture beyond what you thought you knew and experiences the fullness of life. There is so much beauty to be seen, people to meet, and adventures to take in the world. This inspirational guide is designed to speak to the spirit of wonder that resides in every Black woman. This is not my diary, it is the beginning of yours. The experiences of the women in this guide and interactive journal will inspire you to travel to places you've never heard of, and grant you the courage to visit the places that your heart longs to explore.