Author: August MeierPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
An edition of a classic in African American history.
Along the Color Line
Author: August MeierPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252071072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
An edition of a classic in African American history.
Madison Avenue and the Color Line
Author: Jason ChambersPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812220605
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements. Madison Avenue and the Color Line breaks new ground by examining the history of black advertising agency employees and agency owners.
Born Along the Color Line
Author: Eben MillerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195174550
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book chronicles the 1933 Amenia Conference in upstate New York which brought together a young group of African-American activists who would shape the ongoing civil rights movement during the Depression, World War II, and beyond.
Ethics Along the Color Line
Author: Anna StubblefieldPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489761
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
What is "race"? What role, if any, should race play in our moral obligations to others and to ourselves? Ethics along the Color Line addresses the question of whether black Americans should think of each other as members of an extended racial family and base their treatment of each other on this consideration, or eschew racial identity and envision the day when people do not think in terms of race. Anna Stubblefield suggests furthermore that white Americans should consider the same issues. She argues, finally, that for both black and white Americans, thinking of races as families is crucial in helping to combat anti-black oppression.Stubblefield is concerned that the philosophical debate--argued notably between Kwame Anthony Appiah and Lucius Outlaw--over whether or not we should strongly identify in terms of race, and whether or not we should take race into account when we decide how to treat each other, has stalled. Drawing on black feminist scholarship about the moral importance of thinking and acting in terms of community and extended family, the author finds that strong racial identification, if based on appropriate ideals, is morally sound and even necessary to end white supremacy.
Life on the Color Line
Author: Gregory Howard WilliamsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673330
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
“Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the family business failed and his parents’ marriage fell apart, Williams discovered that his dark-skinned father, who had been passing as Italian-American, was half black. The family split up, and Greg, his younger brother, and their father moved to Muncie, Indiana, where the young boys learned the truth about their heritage. Overnight, Greg Williams became black. In this extraordinary and powerful memoir, Williams recounts his remarkable journey along the color line and illuminates the contrasts between the black and white worlds: one of privilege, opportunity and comfort, the other of deprivation, repression, and struggle. He tells of the hostility and prejudice he encountered all too often, from both blacks and whites, and the surprising moments of encouragement and acceptance he found from each. Life on the Color Line is a uniquely important book. It is a wonderfully inspiring testament of purpose, perseverance, and human triumph. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Disabilities of the Color Line
Author: Dennis TylerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147980584X
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
"Rather than simply engaging in a triumphalist narrative of overcoming where both disability and disablement are shunned alike, Disabilities of the Color Line argues that Black authors and activists have consistently avowed disability as a part of Black social life in varied and complex ways. Sometimes their affirmation of disability serves to capture how their bodies, minds, and health have been and are made vulnerable to harm and impairment by the state and society. Sometimes their assertion of disability symbolizes a sense of commonality and community that comes not only from a recognition of the shared subjection of blackness and disability but also from a willingness to imagine and create a world distinct from the dominant social order. Through the work of David Walker, Henry Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, and Mamie Till-Mobley, Disabilities of the Color Line examines how Black writer-activists have engaged in an aesthetics of redress: modes of resistance that show how Black communities have rigorously acknowledged disability as a response to forms of racial injury and in the pursuit of racial and disability justice"--
Cutting Along the Color Line
Author: Quincy T. MillsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245415
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Examines the history of black-owned barber shops in the United States, from pre-Civil War Era through today.
Loving Across the Color Line
Author: Sharon RushPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847699124
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In this memoir, the author relates how her loving,maternal relationship opened her eyes to the harsh realities of the Americal racial divide.
Class and the Color Line
Author: Joseph GerteisPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822342243
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
DIVThis ms studies class and race boundaries, and interracial political coalitions, in two significant 19th century social movements--the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement./div
W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: Bill MullenPublisher: Revolutionary Lives
ISBN: 9780745335056
Category : African American intellectuals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Accessible introduction to the life and times of one of the toweringfigures of the American Civil Rights movement.