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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Detailed profiles bring stories of African American heroism in the U.S. armed forces to life, from the American Revolution through the conflict in Afghanistan.
• Shares 80 detailed biographies of African Americans who earned their nation's highest medals for valor
• Covers both well-known...
Righteous Riches
The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Does God want us to be wealthy? Many people believe that God offers not only eternal joy in the hereafter but also material blessings in the here and now. Other Christians see this "prosperity theology," as nothing more than vulgar materialism, incompatible with orthodox Christianity. In...
Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley—took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Health and Social Issues of Native American Women is the first book that specifically explores and discusses health and related social issues within the world of Native American women, providing strong historical and cultural perspectives as well as other contextual information that is often missing...
Contemporary Arab-American Literature
Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions...
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education
Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective,...
Multiethnic American Literatures
Essays for Teaching Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally...
War, Genocide, and Justice
Cambodian American Memory Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of the Khmer Rouge’s deadly reign over Cambodia, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished as a result of forced labor, execution, starvation, and disease. Despite the passage of more than thirty years, two regime shifts, and a contested U.N. intervention,...
The Contemporary African American Novel
Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the “neo-urban novel,” and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday...
The Native American Mascot Controversy
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once considered a benign practice, numerous studies have proved just the opposite: that the use of Native American mascots in educational institutions has...
by Lena Hill
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Henry James, Edith Wharton, William...
American Journal
Fifty Poems for Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States
American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable...