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601) Breathe
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable. However,...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Hay House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this powerful examination of "the greatest propaganda campaign of all time" - the masterful marketing of black inferiority, aka the BI Complex - Burrell poses ten disturbing questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think and act like slaves.
Publisher
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Sundquist examines the cultural and social context woven through Ellison's novel, where episodes in the novel are clearly drawn from (or meant to reflect on) historical events or institutions. These selections include speeches, essays, folktales, historical analyses, and other cultural documents that Ellison used in "Invisible Man" to refer to African American events and traditions which shaped his narrator's life.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From Kara Walker's hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty's bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead's literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele's body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary artistic works that present, like musical deep cuts, some challenging "alternate takes" on American slavery. These artists deliberately confront and negotiate the psychic and representational legacies...
Author
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Mark of Criminality illustrates the ways that the "war on crime" became conjoined--aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically--with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop. In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era's worst racial stereotypes. Rather,...
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present, and future strength of black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself. In a nation that is tearing itself apart over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer . Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young Black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells's career, and--when hate crimes touched her life personally--she mounted what was to become her life's work: an anti-lynching crusade...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Young Black people have repeatedly asked Johnson why she continues to work on social justice issues and how she manages to retain hope. She publishes this book hoping current and future generations will remember the strength of their ancestors, learn from her story, continue the struggle, and gain justice for her people"--
"Why do you continue to work on issues of justice? Young Black people often ask Josie Johnson this question, then, perhaps in...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor--sparked a firestorm when he released his report "The Negro Family," which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Blaming the Poor examines the regrettably durable impact of the Moynihan Report for race relations and social policy in America, challenging the humiliating image the report...
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