Download or read book My Blackness is the Beauty of this Land written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Blackness is the Beauty of this Land written by Lance Jeffers and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Blackness is the Beauty of this Land written by Nicolás Guillén and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Theater written by Glenda Dicker/sun and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays dramatists wrote and produced. The journey begins in 1850 when most African people were enslaved in America. Along the way, cultural milestones such as Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Freedom Movement are explored. The journey concludes with a discussion of how the past still plays out in the works of contemporary playwrights like August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks. African American Theater moves unsung heroes like Robert Abbott and Jo Ann Gibson Robinson to the foreground, but does not neglect the race giants. For actors looking for material to perform, the book offers exercises to create new monologues and scenes. Rich with myths, history and first person accounts by ordinary people telling their extraordinary stories, African American Theater will entertain while it educates.
Download or read book The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry written by Arnold Rampersad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry covering over two centuries, and includes selections by Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. Du Bois, and many more.
Download or read book No Coward Soldiers written by Waldo E. Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exploration of the 20th-century civil rights and black power eras, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold's exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.
Download or read book The Columbia Granger s Index to African American Poetry written by Nicholas Frankovich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the enormous interest in African-American literature, Columbia University Press is publishing a Granger's(R) index devoted exclusively to poetry by African-Americans. To compile the Index to African-American Poetry, a team of consultants indentified the best, most widely available anthologies and volumes of collected and selected works. The result: this new index includes more than 11,000 poems by 659 poets.
Download or read book Living the California Dream written by Alison Rose Jefferson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
Download or read book MisReading America written by Vincent L. Wimbush and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MisReading America presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color, using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures—''scripturalizing''—as an analytical wedge. Scriptures here are understood as shorthand for complex social phenomena, practices, and dynamics. The authors take up scripturalizing as a window onto the self-understandings, politics, practices, and orientations of marginalized communities. These communities have in common the context that is the United States, with the challenges it holds for all regarding: pressure to conform to conventional-canonical forms of communication, representation, and embodiment (mimicry); opportunities to speak back to and confront and overturn conventionality (interruptions); and the need to experience ongoing meaningful and complex relationships (reorientation) to the centering politics, practices, and myths that define ''America.''
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Download or read book Journey Into My Blackness Feel The Depth Of My Soul written by Rhonda Renee' Bolden and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written to take others on my journey as I explore life as a woman of color. Hopefully it will inspire other black women from all over the world to achieve the highest level of greatness that they can achieve. Hopefully it will inspire others to know their self worth. I am hoping that we can truly unify this land to love and embrace ourselves while loving, caring and respected all people. There is only one race and that is the human race. Hopefully this book will inspire everyone to truly love themselves for who they really are. We must learn to look at the beauty in our different shades of skin color and not use it to divide us but rather to strengthen us. True and pure love does not see color, it embraces everyone. I want this book to teach us as black women and men that though we have darker skin, it does not make us any different and we should not settle to be treated any less. Our skin is beautiful, flawless, strong and represents love at it's highest form through Christ Jesus. Embrace our blackness with dignity, self love, beauty and greatness. Take my hand and allow me to take you on this journey to bring peace and harmony. Journey into my Blackness, I hope will enlighten people to not judge color and to look at a person's spirit, heart and soul. We need love so desperately today like no other time. Love covers a multitude of sins. Love heals and delivers us out of chains of hurt, bondage and pain. Journey Through My Blackness, Feel The Depth Of My Soul, will awaken those who dare to dream giving you the power to know that God truly does make all things possible if you trust Him and take Him at His word. I am hoping that as you take this journey with me, you will begin to truly love all of who you are black skin and all. Never settle, always shine and inspire for greatness because it lives inside of each one of us from the lightest of skin shades to the darkest. Beauty is as beauty does, it has the power to heal and the power to love. Journey Into My Blackness Feel The Depth Of My Soul. I want to thank God, The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, for always being True Love for me. For loving me past me pain, hurts, mistakes and always seeing a winner is me. For given up your life so that I could live and have life and to have it more abundantly. Secondly, I dedicate this book to my late father, Mr. Vance Edward Bolden Sr., who will forever be the "The Wind Beneath My Wings". Thank you daddy, for showing me, how I am supposed to be treated as a woman, no less than like royalty and a queen. Thank you for showing me what a good and a real man looks like. I thank God, for allowing my grandmother to bring forth your life. Next to God, you are the best part of my life. Thank you for being a father and a daddy and for being the best there was and the best there is. Thank you for being that angel that was sent from God to always be there for me and for carrying and loving me unconditionally when I didn't even know how to carry and love myself. God is the greatest love that I have ever and will ever know but daddy, you are a beautiful second. Thank you just for being the highest form of love for me on earth and for being you. The memories that you have given me, will last forever in my heart til I leave this earthly journey. I will always love you daddy, more than words could ever say. Thank you for starting this journey with me and now your legacy and spirit will be there to guide me the rest of the way. You will forever be, one of my biggest inspirations, throughout the test of time." I Love You Daddy." This book is to thank Dr. Maya Angelou for giving me the courage and the okay to write. Her books always gave me strength and courage that I could write and bring my poetry to life. She will forever be embedded in my heart. Journey Into My Blackness, Feel The Depth Of My Soul
Download or read book Social Poetics written by Mark Nowak and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people’s history of the poetry workshop from the founding director of the Worker Writers School. Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means, but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces, from taxi drivers to street vendors, and other workers of the world.
Download or read book My Blackness is the Beauty of this Land written by Ofole U. Mgbako and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Clay Suite written by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in Red Clay Suite, Jeffersapproaches the southern landscape as utopia and dystopia—a crossroads of race, gender, and blood. These poems signal the ending movement of her crossroads blues and complete the last four “bars” of a blues song, resting on the final, and essential, note of resolution and reconciliation.
Download or read book Chicorel Index to Poetry in Anthologies and Collections in Print written by Marietta Chicorel and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING DIGNIFIABLE QUESTIONS ABOUT AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION written by Ekkehard-Teja Wilke and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is blessed with thousands of institutions of post secondary education. Integrity is alive at all levels. Learning takes place. American higher education is a stupendous achievement with a proud tradition. No area in the world is likely to claim better schools and a better record. Hundreds of small institutions with less than 1000 students, some public, some private, independent, some denominational, some comprehensive, others program selective, represent and live the spirit of a community of learning. But it is also true that the system of American higher education, just as American democracy, is confronted with challenges and threats. As the the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education has recently, in August 2022, observed, “ The system was never completely right-side up”. He talked of a “post-secondary purgatory”, of a ranking system that is “a joke”, and called for a “cultural change in higher education, NOW”. These challenges and threats need to be addressed now, while it is still, hopefully, time to avert potentially catastrophic consequences. Just as democratic institutions are likely to be misused and need constant critical vigilance, so educational institutions need , active, constant attention and engaged maintenance. The experiences described in these chapters, while accurate, do not reflect comprehensively the “state of post-secondary American education”. But glaring defects and negative tendencies do exist and continue at all levels and to a degree that demands informed awareness and action. The quantitative leap in the student population after 1945 accelerated positive and negative developments. Opportunity of education is available, but hardly equal opportunity. Higher education seems to have become unduly influenced by interests and considerations destructive of quality education. Changes need to be considered and consensually implemented now in order to minimize intended and unintended negative consequences.
Download or read book The Lever of Riches written by Joel Mokyr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-09 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass into stagnation? Beginning with a fascinating, concise history of technological progress, Mokyr sets the background for his analysis by tracing the major inventions and innovations that have transformed society since ancient Greece and Rome. What emerges from this survey is often surprising: the classical world, for instance, was largely barren of new technology, the relatively backward society of medieval Europe bristled with inventions, and the period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution was one of slow and unspectacular progress in technology, despite the tumultuous developments associated with the Voyages of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution. What were the causes of technological creativity? Mokyr distinguishes between the relationship of inventors and their physical environment--which determined their willingness to challenge nature--and the social environment, which determined the openness to new ideas. He discusses a long list of such factors, showing how they interact to help or hinder a nation's creativity, and then illustrates them by a number of detailed comparative studies, examining the differences between Europe and China, between classical antiquity and medieval Europe, and between Britain and the rest of Europe during the industrial revolution. He examines such aspects as the role of the state (the Chinese gave up a millennium-wide lead in shipping to the Europeans, for example, when an Emperor banned large ocean-going vessels), the impact of science, as well as religion, politics, and even nutrition. He questions the importance of such commonly-cited factors as the spill-over benefits of war, the abundance of natural resources, life expectancy, and labor costs. Today, an ever greater number of industrial economies are competing in the global market, locked in a struggle that revolves around technological ingenuity. The Lever of Riches, with its keen analysis derived from a sweeping survey of creativity throughout history, offers telling insights into the question of how Western economies can maintain, and developing nations can unlock, their creative potential.
