Author: Shawna Lee RyanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Locke 1928
Author: Shawna Lee RyanAfricatown
Author: Nick TaborPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250766559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates’ direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for industrialization, the community is struggling to survive. Many community members believe the pollution from the heavy industry surrounding their homes has caused a cancer epidemic among residents, and companies are eyeing even more land for development. At the same time, after the discovery of the remains of the Clotilda in the riverbed nearby, a renewed effort is underway to create a living memorial to the community and the lives of the slaves who founded it.
Locke 1928
Author: Shawna Yang RyanPublisher: El Leon Literary Arts
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women suddenly appear out of the mist one afternoon in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River, and their arrival throws the community into confusion. As the lives of the townspeople become inextricably intertwined with the newly arrived women, Poppy's premonitions begin to foretell a deep unhappiness for all involved. And when a flood threatens the livelihood of the entire town, the frightening power of these mysterious women who arrived in the mist will be revealed.
The New Negro
Author: Jeffrey C. StewartPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019508957X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 945
Book Description
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. [The author] offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally"--Amazon.com.
The New Negro
Author: Alain LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Alain Locke
Author: Christopher BuckPublisher: Kalimat Press
ISBN: 9781890688387
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Politics of Knowledge
Author: Ellen Condliffe LagemannPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467801
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The Carnegie Corporation, among this country's oldest and most important foundations, has underwritten projects ranging from the writings of David Riesman to Sesame Street. Lagemann's lively history focuses on how foundations quietly but effectively use power and private money to influence public policies.
From Black to Schwarz
Author: Maria DiedrichPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643101090
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expression - music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews - the essays collected in this volume trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, literally boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, could not even be liquidated by the Third Reich's `Degenerate Art' campaigns, and, with new media available to further exchanges, is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic.
Economica
Author: Water Ghosts
Author: Shawna Yang RyanPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594202070
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The unexpected arrival of Richard Fong's wife, along with two other women from China, brings complications for Richard as he struggles to combine his two lives and decide if he wants to be with his wife, the local woman he has fallen for, or the prostitute he has been visiting.