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by Tim Dayton
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018

American Poetry and the First World War connects American poetry to the political and economic forces behind American participation in World War I. Dayton investigates the ways that poetry was used to imagine the war and studies a wide range of poetry: open and closed form, formal and colloquial,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children. The first section of the book provides some historical perspective critical to understanding...
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Black Television Travels

African American Media around the Globe

by Timothy Havens
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

“Black Television Travels provides a detailed and insightful view of the roots and routes of the televisual representations of blackness on the transnational media landscape. By following the circulation of black cultural products and their institutionalized discourses—including industry lore,...
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by Stephen Sachs, Barbara Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and harmony so that they may again live well in their...
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Spirited Encounters

American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices

by Karen Coody Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007

During the twentieth century, dozens of protests, large and small, occurred across North America as American Indians asserted their anger and displayed their disappointment regarding traditional museum behaviors. In response, due to public embarrassment and an awakening of sensitivities, museums began...
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The Tribal Moment in American Politics

The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty

by Christine K. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013

In the “tribal moment in American politics,” which occurred from the 1950s to the mid- to late-1970s, American Indians waged civil disobedience for tribal self-determination and fought from within the U.S. legal and political systems. The U.S. government responded characteristically, overall wielding...
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Native Americans: 22 Books on History, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies

History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo

by Charles C. Royce, Clay MacCauley, Franz Boas
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018

Native American Studies collection is formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an interactive table of contents, footnotes and other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable. "Native American Studies"...
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The Souls of White Folk

African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

by Veronica T. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019

It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align...
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by Kimberly K. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

Choice Outstanding Book African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental...
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by William V. Lombardi, Robert Gunn, Andy Doolen
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors reconsider the various roles regions—imagined politically, economically, racially, and figuratively—played in the formation of American...
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by Christina Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017

Exploring the Psychosocial and Psycho-spiritual Dynamics of Singleness Among African American Christian Women in Midlife examines the complexities and realities of singleness in individual, familial, and communal contexts. These realities that are emotional, psychological, spiritual, sexual, and social...
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Something All Our Own

The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art

by Grant Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003

Since 1990, Grant Hill has thrilled sports fans with his artistry on the basketball court, first as an All-American player at Duke University and then as a six-time NBA All-Star for the Detroit Pistons and the Orlando Magic. During these years, Hill has amassed a collection of art by African Americans...
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On Freedom and the Will to Adorn

The Art of the African American Essay

by Cheryl A. Wall
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018

Although they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker have done their most influential work in the essay form. The Souls of Black Folk, The Fire Next Time, and In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens are landmarks...
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