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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Finally! The African American Historical prospective you've been
waiting for! If you deserve the African American truth, demand it -
by reading and sharing the truth.
After World War II, writers and literary critics - black and white
- engaged in heated debates centred on the literary and imaginative
problem of representing African-Americans in American literature.
As the Cold War unfolded, many of these debates began to appear in
journals, conferences and other events, including those directly
sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and other
organisations funded by U.S. and British intelligence agencies.
Ralph Ellison, who would eventually join the American Congress for
Cultural Freedom, was one of the most famous and frequently
published critics on the 'Negro Problem' in literature during this
period. Using never before published materials from Ralph Ellison's
papers at the Library of Congress, Purcell contextualises his
thinking on the Negro Problem - in particular its bearing on
American literary history, Modernism and broader American
geo-politics - within the shadow of the CCF's influence. Therefore,
not only does the book explore how the Cold War's ideological
battles influenced these debates, it illuminates the important role
'race' and more specifically African-American writers and
intellectuals played in the cultural Cold War.
"Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater,
much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by
regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American
authors, who, despite a few notable exceptions (August Wilson,
George C. Wolfe), suffer under a commercial apartheid that keeps
black plays off Broadway. Of necessity, African American theater
artists have to create their own venues from the ground up. This
wide-ranging anthology edited by the founder of the New Federal
Theater celebrates the work of that company's black-owned,
black-run peers by presenting work by 11 dramatists. Among the most
interesting are Jeff Stetson's moving The Meeting, which imagines a
meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and
Shauneille Perry's fascinating updating of In Dahomey, the 1903
musical hit that was the first 'all-Black show' on Broadway." -
Jack Helbig, Booklist
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with
South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists
incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their
struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of
social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of
the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colonial world. The
author goes beyond both the domination of the Atlantic viewpoint,
and the correctives now being offered by South Pacific and Indian
Ocean studies, to look at how the Atlantic ecumene is refracted in
and has influenced the Pacific ecumene. The book is empirically
rich, using extensive interviews, participation and archival work
and focusing on the politics of Black Power and the Rastafari
faith. It is also theoretically sophisticated, offering an
innovative hermeneutical critique of post-colonial and subaltern
studies. The Black Pacific is essential reading for students and
scholars of Politics, International Relations, History and
Anthropology interested in anti-colonial struggles, anti-racism and
the quests for equality, justice, freedom and self-determination.
A must read book for the 21st Century. The journey of an ordinary
black man, who fights an unpopular war as a young man and
confronted with death becomes disillusioned with society until he
is almost a statistic. Subsequently, he manages to come to a better
understanding of life experiences and their impact upon his future
through the "school of hard knocks." Realizing that he is his own
worst enemy and a change must be made, shaped by his parents and a
community, embarks on a path that takes him half way around the
world and home again.
Goddess Pages: Honey, Full Moons and Daggers is as much a journey
through womanhood, as it is an exquisitely written book of poetry.
Through words, Shepsa courses through the faces of the Goddess;
seductively sensual, heroically maternal, and radically rebellious.
Goddess Pages is a feast of words that will make you want to make
love, have a baby and plan the revolution.
John Henry swims better than anyone I know.
He crawls like a catfish, blows bubbles like a swamp monster,
but he doesn't swim in the town pool with me.
He's not allowed.
Joe and John Henry are a lot alike. They both like shooting
marbles, they both want to be firemen, and they both love to
swim.
But there's one important way they're different: Joe is white
and John Henry is black, and in the South in 1964, that means John
Henry isn't allowed to do everything his best friend is.
Then a law is passed that forbids segregation and opens the town
pool to everyone. Joe and John Henry are so excited they race each
other there . . . only to discover that it takes more than a new
law to change people's hearts.
This stirring account of the "Freedom Summer" that followed the
passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 powerfully and poignantly
captures two boys' experience with racism and their friendship that
defies it.
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