This book examines the lives, work, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men's personal papers as well as the materials of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), Pero Gaglo Dagbovie probes the struggles, sacrifices, and achievements of these black history pioneers. The book offers the first major examination of Greene's life. Equally important, it also addresses a variety of issues pertaining...
The men who launched and shaped black studies
This book examines the lives, work, and contributions of two of the most important figures of ...
This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical, sexualized, subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling "bitches" compared...
This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, ...
This book examines the lives, work, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the early black history movement, Carter G. Woodson and Lorenzo Johnston Greene. Drawing on the two men's personal papers as well as the materials of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), Pero Gaglo Dagbovie probes the struggles, sacrifices, and achievements of these black history pioneers. The book offers the first major examination of Greene's life. Equally important, it also addresses a variety of issues pertaining to...
The men who launched and shaped black studies
This book examines the lives, work, and contributions of two of the most important figures of the ...
"Activist Sentiments" takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E. Johnson.
Part literary criticism and part cultural history, "Activist Sentiments" examines nineteenth-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices. P....
"Activist Sentiments" takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grou...
This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, the contributors plumb a wide range of localities to engage many important subjects, including slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity. In doing so, they offer insightful and thought provoking studies, highlight new areas of inquiry in the...
This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship...
The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors theorize and re-imagine a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader...
The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This in...
This text takes as its subject women who in fewer than 50 years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers readings of literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E.W. Harper, and others.
This text takes as its subject women who in fewer than 50 years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary re...
"Freeing Charles" recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman and others in Troy, New York, on April 27, 1860. Scott Christianson follows Nalle from his enslavement by the Hansborough family in Virginia through his escape by the Underground Railroad and his experiences in the North on the eve of the Civil War. This engaging narrative represents the first in-depth historical study of this crucial incident, one of the fiercest anti-slavery riots after Harpers Ferry. Christianson also presents a...
"Freeing Charles" recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by H...
This groundbreaking volume discusses a wide range of issues, themes and paradigms for understanding and analyzing African American history, including the twentieth-century black historical enterprise, the teaching of African American history for the twenty-first century, the hip-hop generation's relationship to and interpretations of African American history, and the social construction of knowledge in African American historiography. A bold contribution to the growing fields of African American historiography and the philosophy of black history, African American History Reconsidered offers...
This groundbreaking volume discusses a wide range of issues, themes and paradigms for understanding and analyzing African American history, including ...
This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual models to challenge notions of race and racism in twentieth-century America. Freud Upside Down explores the relationship between these authors and intellectuals and the psychoanalytic movement emerging in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Examining how...
This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sa...
