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  • av Teresa C. Zackodnik
    635

    From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the colour line.

  • - Arthur Morgan of the TVA
    av Roy Talbert Jr
    565

    Arthur E. Morgan (1878-1975) was a visionary who responded to a very high calling - the building of a perfect community, one based upon the bedrock of morality. This book, the first to explore the career of FDR's Utopian, is a soundly researched historical narrative that details Morgan's career and conflicts.

  • - The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination
    av Richard Nelson
    509

    Offers a new interpretation of the transformation of Anglo-American intellectual and aesthetic culture since 1890. Richard Nelson shows that southern intellectuals confronted head on the tensions Machiavelli observed between power and value, creativity and tradition, and romanticism and realism while seeking a cultural ideal that balances politics and aesthetics.

  • - On the Fiction of E.L. Doctorow
    av Christopher Morris
    375,-

  • - Self-referentiality in Contemporary American Popular Culture
    av Michael Dunne
    375,-

    Since no other book has been written on this subject, Metapop blazes a trail into new territory. The author writes very clearly and gracefully and expresses what could be difficult critical concepts in concise and comprehensible prose free of jargon. He identifies a major characteristic of our culture and provides a definitive guide to the phenomenon.

  • - Robert Lowell and Allen Tate
    av William Doreski
    375,-

  • - The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
    av Mark Berresford
    509 - 1 469,-

    Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career.

  • - Interviews
     
    389,-

    Brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or broadcast between 1938 and 1989, these pieces confirm that Welles's career was multidimensional and thoroughly interwoven with Welles's persona.

  • - Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
    av John K. Young
    509

    Examines the complex negotiations behind the production of African American literature. John K. Young presents the first book-length application of editorial theory to African American literature. He expands upon the concept of socialized authorship and demonstrates how the study of publishing history and practice and African American literary criticism enrich each other.

  • av John S. Wright
    509

    Traces Ralph Ellison's intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison's published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his passionate exchanges with - and impact on - other literary intellectuals during the Cold War 1950s and during the culture wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

  • av R. Clifford Jones
    565

    Tells the story of James K. Humphrey and his attempt to bring about self-determination for twentieth-century blacks in New York City. Humphrey established an independent black religious organisation, the United Sabbath-Day Adventists. This book rescues the Sabbath-Day Adventists from obscurity.

  • - A Black Journalist of the Early West
     
    375,-

    In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself "Ann J. Trask" and later "Semper Fidelis". Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881). Recovering Carter's work from obscurity, this volume represents one of the most exciting bodies of extant work by an African American journalist before the twentieth century.

  • - African American and Caribbean Cultural Exchange
    av Kevin Meehan
    449 - 729

    Offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analysing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, Kevin Meehan traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue through works of Arthur Schomburg, Zora Neale Hurston, Jayne Cortez, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

  • - An Environmental Guide to Herb Gardening
    av Ruth D. Wrensch
    375,-

    For any herbist this is an indispensable handbook of fascinating lore, of tips on practical herb garden design, and of comprehensive guidance in cultivating and harvesting herbs. Non-native herbs grow best and look best in gardens that reproduce their native habitats. This view is the keystone of The Essence of Herbs.

  • - The Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson
     
    509

    In an era that glorified Southern womanhood, especially the women who contributed significantly to the Confederate cause, the subject of this fascinating book, until now, somehow has been largely forgotten. These are the papers that survived her, and they detail the life and deeds of Belle Edmondson (1840-1873), a heroine of the Confederacy.

  • - The Swamp in Southern Culture
    av Anthony Wilson
    509

    Explores the interplay of contradictory but equally prevailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden that defined the antebellum South; and second, the swamp as the last pure vestige of undominated southern eco-culture.

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    415

    For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. This collection of interviews documents the long career of an influential economist and political philosopher who has spent much of his professional life in the public eye. Throughout the collection, Galbraith's erudition, wit, and impassioned liberalism shine through.

  • - A Cultural and Psychoanalytic Study of Nursery Rhymes
    av Lucy Rollin
    465

    From earliest childhood the nursery rhyme, one of the most captivating genres in our popular culture, has transmitted powerful messages to the child who hears it. This fascinating examination of the pervasive influence of nursery rhymes reveals patterns of psychological and cultural meaning in a broad range of rhymes, grouping them according to basic subject matter.

  • - The Detroit Rioters of 1943
    av Jr. Capeci
    509

    Examines the Detroit race riot of 1943. The authors draw on never-before-used police records and court files and combine them with equally original archival data to present several profiles of those who filled the streets of Detroit during the bloody upheaval.

  • av William Bradford Huie
    375,-

    On June 21 1964 three activists were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County near the town of Philadelphia. William Bradford Huie was sent to this seething community to cover the breaking story. This book is his documentary account written in the heat of the dangerous and dramatic moment.

  • - African American Music in Europe
     
    509

    Examines the flow of African American music and musicians across the Atlantic to Europe from the time of slavery to the twentieth century. In a sweeping examination of different musical forms - spirituals, blues, jazz, skiffle, and orchestral music - the contributors consider the reception and influence of black music on a number of different European audiences.

  • - The Novelist as Philosopher
     
    509

  • av Thomas Aervold
    509

    Presents a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah. The anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers the span of Hannah's career from Geronimo Rex (1972) to Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001). The book also includes a previously unpublished interview with Hannah.

  • av Robin Roberts
    499,-

    Although many popular videos have been condemned for sexism, the medium has experienced a striking change. Both in repertoires and in performances the politics of feminism has moved to the front row. Ladies First takes a close look at this exciting phenomenon and shows how both on and off screen strong females have assumed larger roles in the industry.

  • av George A. Sewell
    509

    This new edition of biographical sketches of notable blacks from Mississippi expands the edition published in 1977. A total of 166 figures are included, all of them persons who have, by the authors' comprehensive survey, "made significant contributions in bringing about the uplift of the black race."

  • av Linda Crawford
    419

    What would the state of southern plate and palate be without this staple? What is his great appeal? What is his family tree? How do you hook him? And if so, how do you cook him? But first you have to clean him, so how do you do that?This light-hearted book of catfish facts and folklore gives ample answers to these monumentous questions and to others just as acute.

  • - A Voice of the Black Press
    av Frank Marshall Davis
    465

    Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) was a central figure in the black press. Writings of Frank Marshall Davis presents a selection of Davis's non-fiction, providing an unprecedented insight into one journalist's ability to reset the terms of public conversation and frame the news to open up debate among African Americans and all Americans.

  • av Alan L. Spurgeon
    375,-

    The play party was a popular form of American folk entertainment that included songs, dances, and sometimes games. This is the first book since the 1930s to study this important and little remembered phenomenon of American folk culture. A songbook of ninety musical examples and lyrics completes the picture of this vanished tradition.

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