American category: 24906 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside...
by Charles Eastman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic Native American Nonfiction. History. According to Wikipedia, "Charles Alexander Eastman (February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939) was a Native American writer, physician, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he...
American Indian Policy in Crisis
Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In this book a distinguished authority in the field presents an account of United States Indian policy in the years 1865 to 1900, one of the most critical periods in Indian-white relations. Francis Paul Prucha discusses in detail the major developments of those years—Grant's Peace Policy, the reservation...
by Virgil J. Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The purpose of this book, says the author, is to show the effect of Indian medicinal practices on white civilization. Actually it achieves far more. Itdiscusses Indian theories of disease and methods of combating disease and even goes into the question of which diseases were indigenous and which were...
Dismembering the American Dream
The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, culminating in director Sam Mendes’s adaption of the novel Revolutionary Road (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet). Dismembering...
Progressive Traditions
Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
According to a dichotomy commonly found in studies of American Indians, some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditions in honor of their ancestors, while others in weakness or greed surrender their culture and identities to white American economies and institutions....
by Paul Downes
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature pursues the question of democratic sovereignty as it was anticipated, theorized and resisted in the American colonies and in the early United States. It proposes that orthodox American liberal accounts of political community need to be supplemented...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles...
Lakota Performers in Europe
Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksmanship and horse taming for the twenty million visitors to the Brussels International Exposition,...
Sovereignty for Survival
American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked...
by New York Public Library
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1999
Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and business, and an essential addition to your personal reference library.
"Indispensable for those interested in the African American experience....
Forgotten Readers
Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations,...
The Filipino Primitive
Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How museums’ visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation
Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulation—capitalist, colonial, and racial—than...
African American Pioneers of Sociology
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2009
In African American Pioneers of Sociology, Pierre Saint-Arnaud examines the lasting contributions that African Americans have made to the field of sociology. Arguing that science is anything but a neutral construct, he defends the radical stances taken by early African American sociologists from accusations...