American category: 24906 books
Bound to Respect
Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
In Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861, Keith Michael Green examines key texts that illuminate forms of black bondage and captivity that existed within and alongside slavery....
Utopia and Cosmopolis
Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 1998
When did Americans first believe they were at the center of a truly global culture? How did they envision that culture and how much do recent attitudes toward globalization owe to their often utopian dreams? In Utopia and Cosmopolis Thomas Peyser asks these and other questions, offers a reevaluation...
Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
National and Transatlantic Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions...
W. E. B. DuBois's Exhibit of American Negroes
African Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
“The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” This quote is among the most prophetic in American history. It was written by W. E. B. DuBois for the Exhibition of American Negroes displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition. They are words whose force echoed throughout the...
by Zitkala-Sa
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.American Indian Stories (1921) is remarkable for being perhaps the first literary work by a Native-American woman created without the mediation of a non-Native interpreter, or collaborator. Zitkala-Sa vividly articulates...
Constructing Black Selves
Caribbean American Narratives and the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In 1965, the Hart-Cellar Immigration Reform Act ushered in a huge wave of immigrants from across the Caribbean—Jamaicans, Cubans, Haitians, and Dominicans, among others. How have these immigrants and their children negotiated languages of race and ethnicity in American social and cultural politics?...
Long March Ahead
African American Churches and Public Policy in Post-Civil Rights America
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2004
Analyzing the extensive data gathered by the Public Influences of African American Churches project, which surveyed nearly two thousand churches across the country, Long March Ahead assesses the public policy activism of black churches since the civil rights movement. Social scientists and clergy...
The New North American Studies
Culture, Writing and the Politics of Re/Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.
In this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations...
The Last "Darky"
Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams...
by Barbara A. Baker, Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and...
by Eddie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
With a premise that the African American mind continues to deal with the impact of slavery on many levels, this proactive discussion analyzes the effect of such mental strain on black culture and proposes a model for creating more African American leaders and empowering African American communities....
In the Heart of Texas
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
• Fiction buyers in every category are predominantly female. • Women read more books than men, especially fiction. • Book groups consist almost entirely of women, and the recent proliferation of literary blogs are populated mainly by women. • The most likely person to read a book in any format...
by Stacey Margolis, Donald E. Pease
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2005
Stacey Margolis rethinks a key chapter in American literary history, challenging the idea that nineteenth-century American culture was dominated by an ideology of privacy that defined subjects in terms of their intentions and desires. She reveals how writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Henry James...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Despite the fact that 565 federally recognized tribes exist on the continent of North America, non-Native Americans typically know very little about the modern world of American Indians. In a few instances, the uneasy coexistence of the two cultures has served to create controversy, such as fake Indians...