A Pictorial History of the Negro in America

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
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Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015002380031
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Synopsis A Pictorial History of the Negro in America by : Langston Hughes

A "picture panorama, with text, of all axpects of American Negro life from African origins through slavey days to the present [integration efforts]. The pictures were collected ... from prints, engravings, woodcuts, photographs, paintings."

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America
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Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106000581873
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Synopsis A Pictorial History of the Negro in America by : Langston Hughes

A "picture panorama, with text, of all axpects of American Negro life from African origins through slavey days to the present [integration efforts]. The pictures were collected ... from prints, engravings, woodcuts, photographs, paintings."

Black Magic

Black Magic
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Publisher : Da Capo Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015043766586
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Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Magic by : Langston Hughes

Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s. Long considered the most comprehensive history of African-Americans in the performing arts, this milestone in black history features hundreds of rare and beautiful illustrations. Covering both the obstacles to achievement that these artists faced, and their eventual triumph, Black Magic—long out-of-print—is an essential book of American history.

Civil Rights Childhood

Civil Rights Childhood
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 526
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ISBN-10 : 9781452943701
ISBN-13 : 1452943702
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Civil Rights Childhood by : Katharine Capshaw

Childhood joy, pleasure, and creativity are not often associated with the civil rights movement. Their ties to the movement may have faded from historical memory, but these qualities received considerable photographic attention in that tumultuous era. Katharine Capshaw’s Civil Rights Childhood reveals how the black child has been—and continues to be—a social agent that demands change. Because children carry a compelling aura of human value and potential, images of African American children in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education had a powerful effect on the fight for civil rights. In the iconography of Emmett Till and the girls murdered in the 1963 Birmingham church bombings, Capshaw explores the function of children’s photographic books and the image of the black child in social justice campaigns for school integration and the civil rights movement. Drawing on works ranging from documentary photography, coffee-table and art books, and popular historical narratives and photographic picture books for the very young, Civil Rights Childhood sheds new light on images of the child and family that portrayed liberatory models of blackness, but it also considers the role photographs played in the desire for consensus and closure with the rise of multiculturalism. Offering rich analysis, Capshaw recovers many obscure texts and photographs while at the same time placing major names like Langston Hughes, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison in dialogue with lesser-known writers. An important addition to thinking about representation and politics, Civil Rights Childhood ultimately shows how the photobook—and the aspirations of childhood itself—encourage cultural transformation.

A History of African American Autobiography

A History of African American Autobiography
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 724
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ISBN-10 : 9781108875660
ISBN-13 : 1108875661
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of African American Autobiography by : Joycelyn Moody

This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.

The Negro in the United States

The Negro in the United States
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Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015042398407
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Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Negro in the United States by : Dorothy Porter Wesley

Identifies some 1,700 works about African Americans. Entries include full bibliographic information as well as Library of Congress call numbers and location in 11 major university libraries. Entries are arranged by subjects such as art, civil rights, folk tales, history, legal status, medicine, music, race relations, and regional studies. First published in 1970 by the Library of Congress.

Creating Black Americans

Creating Black Americans
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 476
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ISBN-10 : 9780195137552
ISBN-13 : 0195137558
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Creating Black Americans by : Nell Irvin Painter

Blending a vivid narrative with more than 150 images of artwork, Painter offers a history--from before slavery to today's hip-hop culture--written for a new generation.