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Author | : Louis Chude-Sokei |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2006-01-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822387069 |
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The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williams’s blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations of the moment. It was an appropriation and exploration of the contradictory and potentially liberating power of racial stereotypes. Chude-Sokei makes the crucial argument that Williams’s minstrelsy negotiated the place of black immigrants in the cultural hotbed of New York City and was replicated throughout the African diaspora, from the Caribbean to Africa itself. Williams was born in the Bahamas. When performing the “darky,” he was actually masquerading as an African American. This black-on-black minstrelsy thus challenged emergent racial constructions equating “black” with African American and marginalizing the many diasporic blacks in New York. It also dramatized the practice of passing for African American common among non-American blacks in an African American–dominated Harlem. Exploring the thought of figures such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Claude McKay, Chude-Sokei situates black-on-black minstrelsy at the center of burgeoning modernist discourses of assimilation, separatism, race militancy, carnival, and internationalism. While these discourses were engaged with the question of representing the “Negro” in the context of white racism, through black-on-black minstrelsy they were also deployed against the growing international influence of African American culture and politics in the twentieth century.
Author | : Samuel R. Delany |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2019-12-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486836096 |
Download Dark Reflections Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of a gay African American poet. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, it also explores the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life.
Author | : Matthew Ellks |
Publisher | : Matthew Ellks |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1497313201 |
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This book follows the local boardriding culture through a period of decadence and high times. It is the first book of a trilogy about the challenges that faced the subterranean surfing culture as it began losing its heritage to the yuppies who took advantage of negative gearing in the late 80s and started buying up Bondi. As property values and rates climbed, school enrollments fell and so started the decline of the working class folk of 'Scum Valley'. Us surfers used to call the beach 'Scum Valley' because of the old stink pipe at north that used to pump raw sewerage out into the ocean for us to surf in. We valued street credibility above all else and the community was very tight considering it's close location to such underworld locations as Kings Cross, Darlinghurst and the CBD in general. Being a city beach meant that a colourful cross-section of characters graced our town with the millions of other tourists and beach goers. The story has a David and Goliath twist to it as a rich kid waltzes into town and sets up a surf shop and begins winning friends and influencing people. A staunch local named Dan has a run in with him and so starts a feud that lasts for a decade (Span of the 3 books). Dan eventually opens his own shop and the fallout between rival surf shop clubs sends ripples through the beach. It divides opinions and sets a precedent for ongoing battles that are fought in the streets and in the water.
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 904 |
Release | : 2015-06-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317445538 |
Download A Dictionary of the Underworld Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Author | : Charlotte M. Canning |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1587299380 |
Download Representing the Past Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Representing the Past is required reading for any serious scholar of theatre and performance historiography: original in its conception, global in its reach, thought-provoking and transformative in its effects."---Gay Gibson Cima, author, Early American Women Crities: Performance, Religion, Race --
Author | : Eric Partridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 2733 |
Release | : 2021-07-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317431588 |
Download The Selected Works of Eric Partridge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Author | : Richard Iton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199733600 |
Download In Search of the Black Fantastic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows, despite the changes politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the making of critical social spaces.
Author | : Frank Henry Norton |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2024-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385348498 |
Download The Days of Daniel Boone. A Romance of "The Dark and Bloody Ground" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author | : Mark Whalan |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748634258 |
Download American Culture in the 1910s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United State in the 1910s, a decade characterised by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and Progressive interpretations of culture and society. Chapters on fiction and poetry, art and photography, film and vaudeville, and music, theatre, and dance explore these developments, linking detailed commentary with focused case studies of influential texts and events. These range from Tarzan of the Apes to The Birth of a Nation, from the radical modernism of Gertrude Stein and the Provincetown Players to the earliest jazz recordings. A final chapter explores the huge impact of the First World War on cultural understandings of nationalism, citizenship, and propaganda.Key Features*three case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists*Detailed chronology of 1910s American Culture*Bibliographies for each chapter*Fifteen black and white illustrations
Author | : Belinda Edmondson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2021-12-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192670824 |
Download Creole Noise Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance alongside often violent historical events of the nineteenth century - slavery, Emancipation, the Morant Bay Rebellion, the era of blackface minstrelsy, indentureship and immigration - it revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern, twentieth-century phenomenon, associated with regional anti-colonial or black-affirming nationalist projects. It explores both the lives and the literary texts of a number of early progenitors, among these a number of pro-slavery white creoles as well as the first black author of literary dialect in the English-speaking Caribbean. Creole Noise features a number of fascinating historical characters, among these Henry Garland Murray, a black Jamaican journalist and lecturer; Michael McTurk, the white magistrate from British Guiana who, as 'Quow', authored one of the earliest books of dialect literature; as well as blackface comedian and calypsonian Sam Manning, who along with Marcus Garvey's ex-wife, Amy Ashwood Garvey, wrote a popular dialect play that traveled across the United States. In so doing it reconstructs an earlier period of dialect literature, usually isolated or dismissed from the cultural narrative as racist mimicry or merely political, not part of a continuum of artistic production in the Caribbean.