A timely exploration of Oscar-nominated Black actors and the complicated legacy of the Academy Awards. In Black Oscars: From Mammy to Minny, What the Academy Awards Tell Us about African Americans, Frederick W. Gooding Jr. draws on American, African American, and film history to reflect on how the Oscars have recognized Black actors from the award's inception to the present. Starting in the 1920s, the chapters provide a thorough overview and analysis of Black actors nominated for their Hollywood roles during each decade, with special attention paid to the winners. Historical patterns are scrutinized to reveal racial trends and open the question of whether race relations have truly changed substantively or only superficially over time. Given the Oscars' presence and popularity, it begs the question of what these awards reflect and reinforce about larger society. In the meticulously-researched Black Oscars, we see how the Academy Awards are an indispensable guide to understanding race in mainstream Hollywood and beyond.

Dieses Buch aus dem Jahr 1922 diente zu der Zeit seines Erscheinens vor allem Mechanikstudenten als ein nutzliches Lehr- und Handbuch im Bereich der Automobilvergaser und der generellen Automechanik. Heute, aufgrund der rapiden fortschreitenden Technik uberholt, eroffnet es Interessierten einen umfangreichen Einblick in alle technischen Bereiche der Automobilbranche zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe.

This book was originally intended to serve as a basis for the organisation of carboretory automobile classes for car mecanics. Nowadays, this book from 1922 provides a very detailed and comprehensive view into all technical details of pre-war automobiles.

Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative souls of the 1970s Hip Hop movement demonstrated the captivating, vibrational sound of the five regions in Africa; Northern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Thus, The Griot Tradition as Remixed through Hip Hop: Straight Outta Africa fleshes out the common threads of Hip Hop’s creative genius across the African diaspora and provides an analytical rubric as a guide to a greater understanding of Hip Hop. The author, Frederick Gooding, examines why Hip Hop holds such an important place within contemporary culture in order to determine how a genre that was so controversial and marginal could become mainstream and central. Through the use of various genres, artists, styles, sounds, images, and rhetorical techniques, Gooding analyzes how Hip Hop, when seen through the lens of African connection, can be appreciated for its regenerative and connective power to create relationships between people both nationally and internationally.

Dieses Buch aus dem Jahr 1922 diente zu der Zeit seines Erscheinens vor allem Mechanikstudenten als ein nutzliches Lehr- und Handbuch im Bereich der Automobilvergaser und der generellen Automechanik. Heute, aufgrund der rapiden fortschreitenden Technik uberholt, eroffnet es Interessierten einen umfangreichen Einblick in alle technischen Bereiche der Automobilbranche zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine englischsprachige Ausgabe.