Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans,...
Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now ...
In the late nineteenth century, life became more stable and orderly for most American city dwellers, but not for blacks. Roger Lane offers a historical explanation for the rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during this paradoxical era. Philadelphia serves as test case because of the richness of the data: DuBois's classic study, The Philadelphia Negro, newspapers, records of the criminal justice system and other local agencies, and the federal census. The author presents numerical details, along with many examples of the human stories--social and...
In the late nineteenth century, life became more stable and orderly for most American city dwellers, but not for blacks. Roger Lane offers a histor...
The dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years; English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence. The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero-his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living. Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeemed by love of the Brontes, and the tormented individualism of twentieth-century love narratives. Arguing for this character's central influence not...
The dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years; English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presen...
Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was a popular New York journalist and writer. In the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of the country's best trial and crime reporters. Between 1924, the year Studies in Murder was first printed and 1936 he published six books about murder cases.
Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) was a popular New York journalist and writer. In the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of the country's best tri...
