This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify, examine and evaluate their selected song performances in accordance with the Pan African aesthetic "Nzuri theory/model;" and to illuminate the vast sources of transformational values that aesthetic analysis of African American song performance can foster.
Following concordant procedures...
This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthe...
This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many of the existing stereotypes about the Party. Misconceptions range from the Party being labeled as bent on the violent destruction of the United States to it being an overwhelmingly sexist group. This book challenges stereotypes such as these by examining the community programs of the Party and by looking at the role of women in the Party. Witt argues that the Party was not an extremist group dedicated to overthrowing the government of the United...
This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many o...
A study of both the legislation pertaining to runaway slaves and the individual slave uncovers some previously ignored issues from a legal standpoint, and also highlights the efforts made by slaves in the 18th century to confront these controls. The profile presents new research on the legal setting
A study of both the legislation pertaining to runaway slaves and the individual slave uncovers some previously ignored issues from a legal standpoint,...
The Church of God and Saints of Christ was founded in Lawrence, Kansas in 1896 by William Saunders Crowdy, the son of slaves. The most unusual feature of the Church is its synthesis of Jewish and Christian elements, the Jewish element making it the earliest example of African-American Judaism in Ame
The Church of God and Saints of Christ was founded in Lawrence, Kansas in 1896 by William Saunders Crowdy, the son of slaves. The most unusual feature...
This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, who were among the most outstanding late 19th and early 20th century black women educators. The study identifies and analyzes themes that illuminate Cooper and Burroughs' unique angle of vision of self, community, and society as it relates to their distinctive educational philosophies and contributions to American education.
This study explores the lives, educational philosophies, and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs, who were among the most ...
Illuminating the historical development of race relations from African American, Cherokee, and Muskeg (Creek) points of views, this book weaves a rich tapestry from oral history accounts, manuscript census schedules, and ethnohistorical literature. The Cherokee and Creek tribes were two of the largest in the Southeast and their forcible removal to Indian Territory affected tens of thousands of Africans and Native Americans This innovative study describes Creek and Cherokee social organization and culture change in the early 19th century, uses oral accounts to examine the impact of...
Illuminating the historical development of race relations from African American, Cherokee, and Muskeg (Creek) points of views, this book weaves a rich...
A collection of runaway slave notices from Virginia in which each advertisement appears exactly as published except for the modern type. The documents are presented chronologically and by the publication in which they appeared and are indexed by slave and by master. The volume lacks any discussion o
A collection of runaway slave notices from Virginia in which each advertisement appears exactly as published except for the modern type. The documents...
