Early African-American Classics
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Author | : William Edward Burghardt Du_Bois |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : John Edgar Wideman |
Publisher | : Running Press |
Total Pages | : 1270 |
Release | : 2001-10-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780762410354 |
Contains brief biographical sketches and well-known and obscure works by African American authors from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Ida B. Wells, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Author | : Margaret Malamud |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786720280 |
A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates why and how advocates for abolition and black civil rights (both black and white) deployed their knowledge of classical literature and history in their struggle for black liberty and equality in the United States. African Americans boldly staked their own claims to the classical world: they deployed texts, ideas and images of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt in order to establish their authority in debates about slavery, race, politics and education. A central argument of this book is that knowledge and deployment of Classics was a powerful weapon and tool for resistance-as improbable as that might seem now-when wielded by black and white activists committed to the abolition of slavery and the end of the social and economic oppression of free blacks. The book significantly expands our understanding of both black history and classical reception in the United States.
Author | : Anthony Appiah |
Publisher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2008-05-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553905090 |
This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included herein are such classics as Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) and excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’s The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Harriet A. Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself (1861), Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery (1901), and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912). Whether read as records of African-American history, autobiography, or literature, these invaluable texts stand as timeless monuments to the courage, intellect, and dignity of those for whom writing itself was an act of rebellion—and whose voices and experiences would have otherwise been silenced forever. Edited and with an introduction by Anthony Appiah, who explains the distinctive American literary and cultural context of the time, this edition of Early African-American Classics remains the standard by which all similar collections will inevitably be compared.
Author | : Ronda Racha Penrice |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118069811 |
Understand the historical and cultural contributions of African Americans Get to know the people, places, and events that shaped the African American experience Want to better understand black history? This comprehensive, straight-forward guide traces the African American journey, from Africa and the slave trade through the Civil War, Jim Crow, and the new millennium. You'll be an eyewitness to the pivotal events that impacted America's past, present, and future - and meet the inspiring leaders who struggled to bring about change. How Africans came to America Black life before - and after - Civil Rights How slaves fought to be free The evolution of African American culture Great accomplishments by black citizens What it means to be black in America today
Author | : John Henrik Clarke |
Publisher | : Black Classic Press |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780933121775 |
African history as world history: Africa and the Roman Empire -- Africa and the rise of Islam -- The mighty kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay -- The Atlantic slave trade: Slavery and resistance in South America and the Caribbean -- Slavery and resistance in the United States -- African Americans in the twentieth century.
Author | : Maryemma Graham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 861 |
Release | : 2011-02-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521872170 |
A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.
Author | : Roland Owen Laird |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781402762260 |
Chronicles achievements made since the time of slavery, including contributions to the arts, science, literature, and politics through the election of President Barack Obama.
Author | : Michael S. Harper |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 030776513X |
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.