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"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories - heroes who are awkward, nerdy, self-defeating, self-involved, and, on the whole, odd. He overturns the stereotypes that corral black male characters and paints a subtle, powerful portrait of each of these unique individuals."--Provided by publisher.

Jeffers, H. F., & ProQuest (Firm). (2020).
The age of Phillis"A collection of original poems speaking to the life and times of Phillis Wheatley, a Colonial America-era poet brought to Boston as a slave"-- [Provided by publisher]
"In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, and her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's "age"--the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley's relationship to black people and their individual "mercies" is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history." -- [Provided by publisher]

Play in two acts tthat had its world premiere at Second Stage Theatre in New York City, on May 9, 2011.
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Subject: African Americans > Drama

"Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well as her later role as her husband's most trusted confidant and advisor. Coretta Scott King-- noted author, human rights activist, and wife and partner of famed Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr...."

"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr....

Ards, A. A. (2016). Words of witness: Black women's autobiography in the post-Brown era. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
https://discover.library.unt.edu/catalog/b6555642

Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.

Duffy, D., Jennings, J., Okorafor, N., & Butler, O. E. (2018). Kindred: A graphic novel adaptation.

"Recipient of the 2010 Kay Sexton Award, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify are the long-awaited collection from local literary figure Carolyn Holbrook. A collection of linked essays, Tell Me Your Names follow Holbrook's transformation from a pregnant 16-year-old incarcerated in the Minnesota juvenile justice system through her years living in Minneapolis, raising a family, and eventually to the founder of an organization that challenges conventional ideas about writers of color and provides support for them. Each essay grows from, in some way, stories that are born from silence, or being silenced; stories held inside and untold, hidden traumas: from her family history; her time incarcerated as a teen mother; her life as a teacher, especially working with children of color; cycles of domestic and sexual abuse; and why telling these stories is so necessary for working through traumas personal and collective"-- [Provided by publisher]

"The Encyclopedia of Black Comics focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry. The book focuses on creators in the field of comics: inkers, illustrators, artists, writers, editors, Black comic historians, Black comic convention creators, website creators, archivists and academics--as well as individuals who may not fit into any category but have made notable achievements within and/or across Black comic culture"-- [Provided by publisher]
https://discover.library.unt.edu/catalog/b5911923

TOC: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records -- Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers -- NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files -- NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files -- NAACP Papers: Special Subjects -- NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces -- NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files -- NAACP Papers: The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses -- Struggle for Women's Rights, Organizational Records, 1880-1990 -- Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlessinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner (Nonfiction)PEN/Oakland Award WinnerBCALA Nonfiction Award WinnerGustavus Meyers Award WinnerFrom the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America's shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge--a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the 'New Negro' movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and progressive politics. In this 'Very Short Introduction', Cheryl A. Wall captures the Harlem Renaissance's zeitgeist by identifying issues and strategies that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike. She introduces key figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer, along with such signature texts as 'Mother to Son,' 'Harlem Shadows,' and 'Cane'.

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Romance of Negro Life: Porgy, 1925 -- Interlude. Charleston, 1680-1900 -- ch. Two Chocolate-Covered Lithograph Strip: Porgy, 1927 -- Interlude. Charleston, 1920-1940 -- ch. Three Gershwin's Idea of What a Negro Opera Should Be: Porgy and Bess, 1935 -- ch. Four Neither the Measure of America nor That of the Negro: Porgy and Bess, 1952-1956 -- Interlude. Charleston, 1940-1969 -- ch. Five Forget Any Version You May Have Seen Before: Porgy and Bess, 1959-2012.
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Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality. In its surprising endurance lies a myriad of local, national, and international stories. For black performers and commentators, Porgy and Bess was a nexus for debates about cultural representation and racial uplift. White producers, critics, and even audiences spun revealing racial narratives around the show, initially in an attempt to demonstrate its authenticity and later to keep it from becoming discredited or irrelevant. Expertly weaving together the wide-ranging debates over the original novel, Porgy, and its adaptations on stage and film with a history of its intimate ties to Charleston, The Strange Career of "Porgy and Bess" uncovers the complexities behind one of our nation's most long-lived cultural touchstones [Publisher description].

Table of Comments: ood girls look the other way -- Transgression and transformation: Leaving Las Vegas -- Exotica: breaking down to break through -- Crooklyn: the denial of death -- Cool cynicism: Pulp fiction -- Mock feminism: Waiting to exhale -- Kids: transgressive subject matter-reactionary film -- Artistic integrity: race and accountability -- Neo-colonial fantasies of conquest: Hoop dreams -- Doing it for daddy: black masculinity in the mainstream -- Thinking through class: paying attention to The attendant -- Back to the avant-garde: the progressive vision -- What's passion go to do with it? An interview with Marie-France Alderman -- The cultural mix: an interview with Wayne Wang -- Confession-filming family: an interview with artist and filmmaker Camille Billops -- A guiding light: an interview with Charles Burnett -- Critical contestations: a conversation with A.J. (Arthur Jaffa) -- The oppositional gaze: black female spectators -- Is Paris burning? -- "Whose pussy is this?" A feminist comment.

Table of Contents:
Daddy's second line : toward a cultural poetics of race music -- Disciplining Black music : on history, memory, and contemporary theories -- "It's just the blues" : race, entertainment, and the blues muse -- "It just stays with me all of the time" : collective memory, community theater, and the ethnographic truth -- "We called ourselves modern" : race music and the politics and practice of Afro-modernism at midcentury -- "Goin' to Chicago" : memories, histories, and a little bit of soul -- Scoring a Black nation : music, film, and identity in the age of hip-hop -- "Santa Claus ain't got nothing on this!" : hip-hop hybridity and the Black church muse -- Epilogue : "Do you want it on your black-eyed peas?"
Summary:
"This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct--possessing its own conventions, performance practices, and formal qualities--each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social changes of the 1940s elicited an Afro-modernism that inspired much of the music and culture that followed. Race Music illustrates how, by transcending the boundaries between genres, black communities bridged generational divides and passed down knowledge of musical forms and styles. It also considers how the discourse of soul music contributed to the vibrant social climate of the Black Power Era. Multilayered and masterfully written, Race Music provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its creation."--Publisher description.

"An in-depth look at Black food and the challenges it faces today"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:
Preface to the new edition -- introduction: revolutionary attitude -- loving blackness as political resistance -- eating the other: desire and resistance -- revolutionary black women: making ourselves subject -- selling hot pussy: representations of black female sexuality in the cultural marketplace -- a feminist challenge: must we call every woman sister? -- reconstructing black masculinity -- the oppositional gaze: black female spectators -- micheaux's films: celebrating blackness -- is paris burning? -- madonna: plantation mistress or soul sister? -- representations of whiteness in the black imagination -- revolutionary "renegades": native americans, african americans, and black indians.
Summary:
"In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship--in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film--and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: 'the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert.' As students, scholars, activists, intellectuals, and any other readers who have engaged with the book since its original release in 1992 can attest, that's exactly what these pieces do"-- [Provided by publisher]

Authro: West, Cornel

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Race and Racism in American Public Life: Lessons from My Life and from Anthropology -- 2. The Need for Courageous Conversations about Race and Racism in American Public Life -- 3. Imagine Our Nation without Racism: A Call for Action in the Academy -- Afterword -- Notes -- The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life
Summary:
"Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action is part of The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on Liberal Arts and Public Life. Cole examines the influence of race and racism on education, particularly the liberal arts, and the wider implication for American society specifically looking at three groups: first, further marginalized groups within Black communities, such as poor and/or queer people; secondly, institutions of higher education in leading conversations on race and racism; and thirdly, how racist forces impact higher education making it a site for transformation and action"-- [Provided by publisher]

Dysonography -- Theories of race -- Affirmative action -- Multiculturalism -- Whiteness studies -- Gender views -- Afro-Baptist radicalism and rhetoric -- Religion and sexuality -- Biocriticism and black icons -- Cinema noir -- The soul musics of black folk -- Hip-hop culture -- The predicament of postmodernity -- Coda : the life of the mind.

ilosophy and the Afro-American experience / Cornel West -- African-American existential philosophy / Lewis R. Gordon -- African-American philosophy: a Caribbean perspective / Paget Henry -- Modernisms in black / Frank M. Kirkland -- The crisis of the black intellectual / Hortense J. Spillers -- Kant and knowledge of disappearing expression / Ronald A.T. Judy -- Social contract theory, slavery, and the antebellum courts / Anita L. Allen and Thaddeus Pope -- The morality of reparations II / Bernard R. Boxill -- Afrocentricity: critical considerations / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr.-- African retentions / Tommy L. Lott -- African philosophy at the turn of the century / Albert G. Mosley -- Some group matters: intersectionality, situated standpoints, and black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Radicalizing feminisms from "the movement era" / Joy A. James -- Philosophy and racial paradigms / Naomi Zack -- Racial classification and public policy / David Theo Goldberg -- White supremacy / Charles W. Mills -- Self-respect, fairness, and living morally / Laurence M. Thomas -- The legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson / Michele Moody-Adams -- Some reflections on the Brown decision and its aftermath / Howard McGary -- Contesting the ambivalence and hostility to affirmative action within the black community / Luke C. Harris -- Subsistence welfare benefits as property interests: legal theories and moral considerations / Rudolph V. Vanterpool -- Racism and health care: a medical ethics issue / Annette Dula -- Racialized punishment and prison abolition / Angela Y. Davis -- The Harlem renaissance and philosophy / Leonard Harris -- Critical theory, aesthetics, and black modernity / Lorenzo C. Simpson -- Black cinema and aesthetics / Clyde R. Taylor -- Thanatic pornography, interracial rape, and the Ku Klux Klan / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting -- Lynching and burning rituals in African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez -- Rap as art and philosophy / Richard Shusterman -- Microphone commandos: rap music and political ideology / Bill E. Lawson -- Sports, political philosophy, and the African American / Gerald Early.

The many first-hand accounts of the challenges faced by these talented women provide a glimpse into decades of racism and sexism that have existed in America.

Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, and newcomer Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave is both an unflinching account of slavery in American history and a celebration of the indomitable power of hope.

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.

Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

Dorothy Dandridge delivers a star-making performance in the title role, as a femme fatale who seduces a handsome soldier, setting in motion a classic tale of betrayal and jealousy. With the music of Georges Bizet and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, this musical feast sets the screen on fire with passion.