Black Culture; Reading and Writing Black
Author | : Gloria M. Simmons |
Publisher | : Holt McDougal |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gloria M. Simmons |
Publisher | : Holt McDougal |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Author | : N. K. Jemisin |
Publisher | : Orbit |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316075973 |
After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.
Author | : Sonya Yvette Ramsey |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African American women teachers |
ISBN | : 0252032292 |
Female educators' story of the segregation and integration of Nashville schools
Author | : Cedric Burrows |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822987619 |
In music, crossover means that a song has moved beyond its original genre and audience into the general social consciousness. Rhetorical Crossover uses the same concept to theorize how the black rhetorical presence has moved in mainstream spaces in an era where African Americans were becoming more visible in white culture. Cedric Burrows argues that when black rhetoric moves into the dominant culture, white audiences appear welcoming to African Americans as long as they present an acceptable form of blackness for white tastes. The predominant culture has always constructed coded narratives on how the black rhetorical presence should appear and behave when in majority spaces. In response, African Americans developed their own narratives that revise and reinvent mainstream narratives while also reaffirming their humanity. Using an interdisciplinary model built from music, education, film, and social movement studies, Rhetorical Crossover details the dueling narratives about African Americans that percolate throughout the United States.
Author | : Esau McCaulley |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830854878 |
Reading Scripture from the perspective of Black church tradition can help us connect with a rich faith history and address the urgent issues of our times. Demonstrating an ongoing conversation between the collective Black experience and the Bible, New Testament scholar Esau McCaulley shares a personal and scholarly testament to the power and hope of Black biblical interpretation.
Author | : Marita Golden |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0767929918 |
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways. In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual borders of their communities and broadening their sense of self. Edwidge Danticat movingly recounts the first time she encountered a Black character in a book and how this changed her worldview forever; Edward P. Jones speaks openly about being raised by an illiterate mother; J. California Cooper discusses the spiritual sources of her literary inspiration; Nathan McCall explains how reading saved his life while in prison; Pearl Cleage muses eloquently about how other people’s stories help one make one’s own way in the world; and world-renowned historian John Hope Franklin—in one of the last interviews he gave before his death—touchingly recalls his childhood in the segregated South and how reading opened his mind to life’s greater possibilities. The stories that emerge from these in-depth interviews not only provide an important record of the creative life of leading Black writers but also explore the vast cultural and spiritual benefits of reading and writing, and they support the growing initiative to encourage people to read as both a passion and a pastime.
Author | : John Cullen Gruesser |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2021-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813183154 |
Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?" John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopianism—the biblically inspired belief that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the diaspora to a bright future—to provide a framework for his study. Originating in the eighteenth century and inspiring religious and political movements throughout the 1800s, Ethiopianism dominated African American depictions of Africa in the first two decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, and Pauline Hopkins. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and continuing through the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia, however, its influence on the portrayal of the continent slowly diminished. Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, and the poetry and prose of Melvin Tolson. The final rejection of Ethiopianism came after the dawning of the Cold War and roughly coincided with the advent of postcolonial Africa in works by authors such as Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Walker.
Author | : Hortense J. Spillers |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2003-05-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226769801 |
Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and extending through her turn to cultural studies in the 1990s, these essays display her passionate commitment to reading as a fundamentally political act-one pivotal to rewriting the humanist project. Spillers is best known for her race-centered revision of psychoanalytic theory and for her subtle account of the relationships between race and gender. She has also given literary criticism some of its most powerful readings of individual authors, represented here in seminal essays on Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and William Faulkner. Ultimately, the essays collected in Black, White, and in Color all share Spillers's signature style: heady, eclectic, and astonishingly productive of new ideas. Anyone interested in African American culture and literature will want to read them.
Author | : Ion Idriess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-02-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781925416244 |
Author | : Elizabeth McHenry |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780822329954 |
DIVRecovers the history of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American reading societies./div