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Author : Cornelia Sears
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Africa in the American Mind, 1870-1955 written by Cornelia Sears and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Magee
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628467215
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Africa in the American Imagination written by Carol Magee and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visual culture studies with those from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange. Two major threads weave throughout. One analyzes how the presentation of African visual culture in these popular culture forms conceptualizes Africa for the American public. The other investigates the way the uses of African visual culture focuses America's own self-awareness, particularly around black and white racialized identities. In exploring the multiple meanings that “Africa” has in American popular culture, Africa in the American Imagination argues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts: the Cold War, civil rights, and contemporary eras of the United States; the apartheid and post-apartheid eras of South Africa; the colonial and postcolonial eras of Ghana; and the European era of African colonization.
Author : David Peterson del Mar
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783608560
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book African, American written by David Peterson del Mar and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan novels to the ‘black Zion’ of Garvey’s Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del Mar explores the ways in which American fantasies of Africa have evolved over time, as well as the role of Africans themselves in subverting American attitudes to their continent. Spanning seven decades, from the post-war period to the present day, and encompassing sources ranging from literature, film and music to accounts by missionaries, aid workers and travel writers, African, American is a fascinating deconstruction of ‘Africa’ as it exists in the American mindset.
Author : Clare Corbould
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032620
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Becoming African Americans written by Clare Corbould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked official recognition of a term that had been gaining currency for some decades. Africa has always played a role in black identity, but it was in the tumultuous period between the two world wars that black Americans first began to embrace a modern African American identity. Following the great migration of black southerners to northern cities after World War I, the search for roots and for meaningful affiliations became subjects of debate and display in a growing black public sphere. Throwing off the legacy of slavery and segregation, black intellectuals, activists, and organizations sought a prouder past in ancient Egypt and forged links to contemporary Africa. In plays, pageants, dance, music, film, literature, and the visual arts, they aimed to give stature and solidity to the American black community through a new awareness of the African past and the international black world. Their consciousness of a dual identity anticipated the hyphenated identities of new immigrants in the years after World War II, and an emerging sense of what it means to be a modern American.
Author : Shai A. Divon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317237242
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book United States Assistance Policy in Africa written by Shai A. Divon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the end of WWII to the end of the Obama administration, development assistance in Africa has been viewed as an essential instrument of US foreign policy. Although many would characterise it as a form of aid aimed at enhancing the lives of those in the developing world, it can also be viewed as a tool for advancing US national security objectives. Using a theoretical framework based on 'power', United States Assistance Policy in Africa examines the American assistance discourse, its formation and justification in relation to historical contexts, and its operation on the African continent. Beginning with a problematisation of development as a concept that structures hierarchies between groups of people, the book highlights how cultural, political and economic conceptions influence the American assistance discourse. The book further highlights the relationship between American national security and its assistance policy in Africa during the Cold War, the post-Cold War, and the post-9/11 contexts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Development Studies, Political Science and International Relations with particular interest in US foreign policy, USAID and/or African Studies.
Author : Daniel Bernardi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904085
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness written by Daniel Bernardi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Directory of History Departments and Organizations in the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : African Studies Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book ASA News written by and published by African Studies Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book History of Anthropology Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel J. Czitrom
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899208
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Media and the American Mind written by Daniel J. Czitrom and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.
Author : Sarah-Jane Mathieu
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807899397
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (993 download)
Download or read book North of the Color Line written by Sarah-Jane Mathieu and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters, Sarah-Jane Mathieu connects social, political, labor, immigration, and black diaspora history during the Jim Crow era. By World War I, sleeping car portering had become the exclusive province of black men. White railwaymen protested the presence of the black workers and insisted on a segregated workforce. Using the firsthand accounts of former sleeping car porters, Mathieu shows that porters often found themselves leading racial uplift organizations, galvanizing their communities, and becoming the bedrock of civil rights activism. Examining the spread of segregation laws and practices in Canada, whose citizens often imagined themselves as devoid of racism, Mathieu historicizes Canadian racial attitudes, and explores how black migrants brought their own sensibilities about race to Canada, participating in and changing political discourse there.
Author : Anthony J. Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773530065
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The American Empire and the Fourth World written by Anthony J. Hall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.
Author : Abiola Farinde-Wu
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787149358
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Black Female Teachers written by Abiola Farinde-Wu and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important, timely, and provocative book explores the recruitment and retention of Black female teachers in the United States. There are over 3 million public school teachers in the US, African American teachers only comprise approximately 8 percent of the workforce. Contributions consider the implicit nuances that these teachers experience.
Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471806
Total Pages : 863 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World written by Junius P. Rodriguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests - and central themes - of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement - whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas - has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed. This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. "The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition" provides definitive coverage of one of the most significant experiences in human history. It features primary source documents, maps, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and specialized indexes in each volume, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.
Author : Teresa Zackodnik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110869019X
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865: Volume 4, 1850–1865 written by Teresa Zackodnik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to ostensibly 'free' nation. This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understandings of both African American and American literature. It presents a fluid tradition that includes history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries. Chapters explore how Black literature was being produced and circulated; how and why it marked its relation to other literary and expressive traditions; what geopolitical imaginaries it facilitated through representation; and what technologies, including print, enabled African Americans to pursue such a complex and ongoing aesthetic and political project.
