Studies in African American History and Culture

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11. Blaxploitation Films of the 1970s

    Blackness and Genre

    By Novotny Lawrence

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    During the early years of the motion picture industry, black performers were often depicted as shuckin’ and jivin’ caricatures. Specifically, black males were portrayed as toms, coons and bucks, while the mammy and tragic mulatto archetypes circumscribed black femininity. This misrepresentation...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
12. Racial Discourse and Cosmopolitanism in Twentieth-Century African American Writing

    By Tania Friedel

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book engages cosmopolitanism—a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality—in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers. Deeply influenced and inspired by W. E. B. Du Bois, the...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
13. Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone

    Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory

    By Melanie E. Bratcher

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify,...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
14. Contemporary African American Theater

    Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller

    By Nilgun Anadolu-Okur

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    Published May 4th 2011 by Routledge
15. The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

    African Americans in San Francisco, 1945–1975

    By Paul T. Miller

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    The war industries associated with World War II brought unparalleled employment opportunities for African Americans in San Francisco, a city whose African American population grew by over 650% between 1940 and 1945. With this population increase came an increase in racial discrimination directed at...

    Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
16. Black Liberation in the Midwest

    The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970

    By Kenneth Jolly

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignore the city of St. Louis and the Black liberation struggle that took place there. Jolly examines this local movement and organizations such as the Black...

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
17. Swinging the Vernacular

    Jazz and African American Modernist Literature

    By Michael Borshuk

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book looks at the influence of jazz on the development of African American modernist literature over the 20th century, with a particular attention to the social and aesthetic significance of stylistic changes in the music....

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
18. Movement Matters

    American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics

    By David Hostetter

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    Examining four decades of American antiapartheid activism, Movement Matters analyzes the long-term impact of the American antiapartheid movement on American civil religion. Exploring issues of race, politics and culture, the book presents a fresh look at the importance of antiapartheid activism in...

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
19. When to Stop the Cheering?

    The Black Press, the Black Community, and the Integration of Professional Baseball

    By Brian Carroll

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    *Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship...

    Published June 8th 2009 by Routledge
20. The Black Panthers in the Midwest

    The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966–1977

    By Andrew Witt

    Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

    This book analyzes the community programs of the Black Panther Party, specifically those of the Milwaukee branch, with the aim of dispelling many of the existing stereotypes about the Party. Misconceptions range from the Party being labeled as bent on the violent destruction of the United States to...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge