Hakutulokset: Sarja studies in african american history and culture
yhteensä 69 hakutulosta
Charles H. Wesley
Slavery and Medicine
This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing …
Slavery, Southern Culture, and Education in Little Dixie, Missouri, 1820-1860
This dissertation examines the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, and in particular, the issue of master-slave relationships and how they …
James W.C. Pennington
The story of James W.C. Pennington who was a former slave, then a Yale scholar, minister, and international leader of the Antebellum abolitionist movement. He escaped from slavery …
Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition
This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural …
Constructing Belonging
Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American …
The National Black Independent Party
This study helps to fill a major void in the literature on African American politics, third parties, and mass movements. Established in 1980, the National Black Political Party …
The Origins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement
The historical relationship between American urbanization, industrialization and the emergence of the civil rights movement is examined in this thesis in order to establish why the …
Swinging the Vernacular
This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic …
Emerging Afrikan Survivals
This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville …
African American Women during the Civil War
This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and …
Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s
During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, …