Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or taste or feel. She had no arms and no legs. Ruth Messier was a bowling ball.
Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or ta...
Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or taste or feel. She had no arms and no legs. Ruth Messier was a bowling ball.
Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or ta...
These two rare books are now available in one volume, including all original illustrations. This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-print books, Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlen Jive (1944) and Diggeth Thou? (1959) by Dan Burley. Burley was a journalist and sportswriter who worked for various African American newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Crusader, New York New Amsterdam News, Jet, and Ebony in both Chicago and New York in the 1920s through the 1950s. Although he did not invent jive, throughout the 1940s Burley's handbook fostered...
These two rare books are now available in one volume, including all original illustrations. This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-p...
The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most anticipated in-state football rivalry in Louisiana. The most significant national game to feature historically black colleges and universities is more than a contest; the Bayou Classic is a lavish event, featuring celebrities, a fan festival, and a halftime "Battle of the Bands" that offers an intensity equal to that of the gridiron. In Bayou Classic, Thomas Aiello chronicles the history of the game and explores the two schools' broader...
The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars represents the fiercest and most ...
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orleans Item as the lynch law center of Louisiana. race relations were bad, and the Depression was pitiless for most, especially for the working class a great many of whom had no work at all or seasonal work at best. Yet for a few years in the early 1930s, this unlikely spot was home to the Monarchs, a national-caliber Negro League baseball team. Crowds of black and white fans eagerly filled their segregated grandstand seats to see the players...
In the 1930s, Monroe, Louisiana, was a town of twenty-six thousand in the northeastern corner of the state, an area described by the New Orl...
The evolution of American cultural history pivots on those moments, large and small, where definitions break down, where meaning is contested, and a new kind of understanding is created in the bargain. We would be hard pressed to call that evolution progress, as new situational realities are defined by their newness and the situations that create them, but they breed difference, nonetheless, and create a new synthesis from the rubble. Those situational realities are created by shifts in meaning, by the cross-currents of language, which ultimately drive the system not forward, perhaps, but...
The evolution of American cultural history pivots on those moments, large and small, where definitions break down, where meaning is contested, and a n...
"Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved "tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the unsuccessful crusade for federal legislation in the early 1970s. The human obsession with inhalation for intoxication has deep roots, from the oracle at Delphi to Judaic biblical ritual. The discovery of nitrous oxide, ether, and chloroform in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the later development of paint thinners, varnishes, lighter fluid, polishes, and dry-cleaning supplies provided a variety of publicly available products with...
"Model Airplanes are Decadent and Depraved "tells the story of the American glue-sniffing epidemic of the 1960s, from the first reports of use to the ...
The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and economic progress for African Americans lasted 20 years, from 1895 to Washington's death in 1915. Their ongoing conversation evolved over time, becoming fiercer and more personal as the years progressed. But despite its complexities and steadily accumulating bitterness, it was still, at its heart, a conversation an impassioned contest at the turn of the century to capture the souls of black folk.
This book focuses on the conversation between Washington and Du Bois in order to fully examine its...
The debate between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington on how to further social and economic progress for African Americans lasted 20 years, fr...
