In this study of novels by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Leon Forrest, Ernest Gaines, Randall Kenan, John Edgar Wideman, Gayl Jones, and Octavia E. Butler, Tuire Valkeakari examines the creative re-visioning and reshaping of Judeo-Christian idiom and imagery by African American …
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"After many years of neglect and faultfinding by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Berg reveals the group's eminently political character as he assesses both its his…
"After many years of neglect and faultfinding by contemporary activists, historians, and the media, Manfred Berg restores the NAACP to its rightful place at the heart of the civil rights movement. Berg reveals the group's eminently political character as he assesses both its his…
Singing for freedom -- Cultural organizing in the Integrationist Movement, 1961/1964 -- Jazz and radical politics, 1960/1964 -- The 1964 Mississippi Summer Project -- Integrationist cultural organizing in the Black power era, 1965/1969 -- Black cultural nationalism, 1965/1969 --…
Stretching from the thoughts and words of American intellectuals such as Frederick Douglass, Robert Moton, and Claude Barnett to the Civil Rights era, the range of this work examines the political, economic, and cultural relations between U.S. African Americans and Haitians.
'From Douglass to Duvalier' examines the creative and critical ways U.S. African Americans and Haitians engaged the idealized tenets of Pan Americanism - mutual cooperation, egalitarianism, and nonintervention between nation-states - in order to strengthen Haiti's social, econom…
Brazilians of African descent draw upon both Christian and African diasporic religions to construct their racial identities in a variety of intriguing ways. Focusing on the Reconcavo region of northeastern Brazil - known for its rich Afro-Brazilian traditions and as a center of …
Brazilians of African descent draw upon both Christian and African diasporic religions to construct their racial identities in a variety of intriguing ways. Focusing on the Reconcavo region of northeastern Brazil - known for its rich Afro-Brazilian traditions and as a center of …
A study of atheist African American writers which poses a challenge to those who see atheism in despairing and nihilistic terms. This work argues that while most white atheists mourn the loss of faith, many black atheists - believing the 'God-concept' spawns racism and oppressio…
This book examines how the biblical verse of Psalm 68:31, known as the Ethiopian prophecy, has been used and conceptualized in African American literature and history.
This cutting-edge text not only increases our understanding of African American literature and film; it also enlarges the accessibility and the possibilities of the field of ecocriticism."--Yvonne Atkinson, Mt. San Jacinto College and president of the Toni Morrison Society While…
"This cutting-edge text not only increases our understanding of African American literature and film, it also enlarges the accessibility and the possibilities of the field of ecocriticism."YVONNB ATKINSON, Mt. San Jacinto College and president of the Toni Morrison Society. Whil…