Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076919
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An African American Miscellany Selections from a Quarter Century of Collecting, 1970-1995
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9780914076919
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
African American Miscellany
Author: Midwestern Miscellany
Author: African American History, Miscellaneous Pamphlets
Author: Mixing It Up
Author: John Shelton ReedPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807170011
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Too often depicted as a region with a single, dominant history and a static culture, the American South actually comprises a wide range of unique places and cultures, each with its own history and evolving identity. John Shelton Reed’s Mixing It Up is a medley of writings that examine how ideas of the South, and what it means to be southern, have changed over the last century. Through essays, op-eds, speeches, statistical reports, elegies, panegyrics, feuilletons, rants, and more, Reed’s penetrating observations, wry humor, and expansive knowledge help him to examine the South’s past, survey its present, and venture a few modest predictions about its future. Touching on an array of topics from the region’s speech, manners, and food, to politics, religion, and race relations, Reed also assesses the work of other pundits, scholars, and South-watchers. From Appalachia to New Orleans, Mixing it Up: A South-Watcher’s Miscellany offers a collection of lively prose and provocative observations about this ever-changing region and its people.
Reading Black Books
Author: Claude AtchoPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493437003
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American literature. Pastor and teacher Claude Atcho offers a theological approach to 10 seminal texts of 20th-century African American literature. Each chapter takes up a theological category for inquiry through a close literary reading and theological reflection on a primary literary text, from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Richard Wright's Native Son to Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain and James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain. The book includes end-of-chapter discussion questions. Reading Black Books helps readers of all backgrounds learn from the contours of Christian faith formed and forged by Black stories, and it spurs continued conversations about racial justice in the church. It demonstrates that reading about Black experience as shown in the literature of great African American writers can guide us toward sharper theological thinking and more faithful living.
An American Miscellany
Author: Lafcadio HearnAfrican American Festival Series Miscellaneous Publications
Author: Willis Cultural Center InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
For a Better World
Author: George FishmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Freedom's Port
Author: Christopher PhillipsPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and development of that community. He shows how it grew from a transient aggregate of individuals, many fresh from slavery, to a strong, overwhelmingly free community less wracked by class and intraracial divisions than were other cities. Almost from the start, Phillips states, Baltimore's African Americans forged their own freedom and actively defended it--in a state that maintained slavery and whose white leadership came to resent the liberties the city's black people had achieved.