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Holler If You Hear Me by Michael Eric Dyson
epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Michael Eric Dyson

Did Tupac draw from his own experiences, or did he raid the experiences of others to spin his haunting tales of urban woe and social neglect? If he did, would ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 17,2020 )
Zami by Audre Lorde
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Audre Lorde

We left the car and climbed to the top of the hill. The air was chill as we sat on the stumps to catch our breaths. ‘Cold?’ ‘No,’ I said, ...
( Category: LGBT February 16,2020 )
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joan Morgan [Morgan, Joan]

I will not be an SBW. I mean it. If I’m buggin’ ’cause my check is late, the mortgage is past due, and there are no groceries in the refrigerator, ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 15,2020 )
The End of White World Supremacy by Malcolm X
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Malcolm X

The Old Negro and the New Negro In 1963, with Malcolm X already a national figure and the Muslim cause for which he was the most articulate spokesman clearly gaining ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 15,2020 )
Pourin' Down Rain by Cheryl Foggo
epub |eng | | Author:Cheryl Foggo

My grandfather worked at the Canada Packers plant in Regina for something like twenty years, perhaps a little more or less. He was industrious, a labourer who would have lived ...
( Category: African-American & Black February 15,2020 )
Different Strokes by Cecil Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Cecil Harris

Some believe champions are born. Others believe they are made. The correct answer may lie somewhere in between. But it is probably a safe bet to believe that if no ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 11,2020 )
Parable of the Brown Girl by Khristi Lauren Adams
epub |eng | 2019-12-12 | Author:Khristi Lauren Adams [Adams, Khristi]

Over the years, I have seen a national push toward helping girls build their confidence and instilling a healthy body image in them to combat body insecurities in girls. Based ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 9,2020 )
The Omni-Americans by Albert Murray
epub |eng | 2019-12-17 | Author:Albert Murray

II For several years before Baldwin’s articles, Richard Wright was a famous U.S. Negro expatriate living in Paris among the most famous French existentialists, who then were having a field ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 6,2020 )
The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett
epub |eng | | Author:Juda Bennett

Other people call it humor. It’s not sort of laughing away one’s troubles. . . . Laughter itself for Black people has nothing to do with what’s funny at all. ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 6,2020 )
Black in America by Enobong Hannah Branch & Christina Jackson
epub |eng | 2020-01-27 | Author:Enobong Hannah Branch & Christina Jackson

Labor and Race-Making in a Historical Perspective While understanding the experience of emancipated Black slaves in the South is critical to understanding the Black labor market experience, it is much ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism February 2,2020 )
Ida by Paula J. Giddings
epub |nld | | Author:Paula J. Giddings

IRONICALLY, COMPARED WITH the fireworks at the NACW confab, the actual deliberations of the Afro-American Council meeting, which opened on August 17, were anticlimactic. Although the opening session was so ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 23,2020 )
Spook Who Sat by the Door (9780244198718) by Greenlee Sam
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Greenlee, Sam [Greenlee, Sam]

12 It had been a harsh winter, with subzero temperatures a regular thing. There would be an occasional respite while the big, soft snow covered the city and for a ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge by James Naremore
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:James Naremore [Naremore, James]

NIGHTJOHN One of Burnett’s most impressive films, worthy of discussion alongside any of his theatrical features, is Nightjohn, an adaptation of a young adult novella by Gary Paulsen, coproduced by ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 19,2020 )
The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage by Lewis A. Erenberg
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Lewis A. Erenberg

6 ROPE-A-DOPE They call it rope a dope, I was the dope. GEORGE FOREMAN, “TOTAL FAILURE: HOW GEORGE FOREMAN’S LOSSES SHOWED HIM THE LIGHT,” NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, MAY 24, 2017 ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies January 19,2020 )
American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream by Julia L. Mickenberg
epub |eng | 2017-04-04 | Author:Julia L. Mickenberg [Mickenberg, Julia L.]

She was invited to dinner at the home of Andrei Goncharov, a portraitist. Pudovkin was at the dinner, but so was his wife, Anna Nikolaevna Zemtsova, a prominent film critic ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )

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