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Download or read book Black for a Day written by Alisha Gaines and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a unique genealogy of "empathetic racial impersonation--white liberals walking in the fantasy of black skin under the alibi of cross-racial empathy. At the end of their experiments in "blackness," Gaines argues, these debatably well-meaning white impersonators arrived at little more than false consciousness. Complicating the histories of black-to-white passing and blackface minstrelsy, Gaines uses an interdisciplinary approach rooted in literary studies, race theory, and cultural studies to reveal these sometimes maddening, and often absurd, experiments of racial impersonation. By examining this history of modern racial impersonation, Gaines shows that there was, and still is, a faulty cultural logic that places enormous faith in the idea that empathy is all that white Americans need to make a significant difference in how to racially navigate our society.
Book Synopsis Black Day White by : Ayesha Sasikumar
Download or read book Black Day White written by Ayesha Sasikumar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wrote what I wanted to read” is what I would like to say. But no. That’s not entirely true. I wrote what came to me. Every drop of ink makes a unique design on paper. Here, every poem is a linear yet random expression of myself. Some are vents, some are thoughts and some are what left dents in my mind. Black day White is a collection of my words, my ink blots. Here’s hoping that you are able to resonate with some of my thoughts and they voice your words too… one blot at a time.
Book Synopsis We Will Win the Day by : Louis Moore
Download or read book We Will Win the Day written by Louis Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exceedingly timely book looks at the history of black activist athletes and the important role of the black community in making sure fair play existed, not only in sports, but across U.S. society. Most books that focus on ties between sports, black athletes, and the Civil Rights Movement focus on specific issues or people. They discuss, for example, how baseball was integrated or tell the stories of individuals like Jackie Robinson or Muhammad Ali. This book approaches the topic differently. By examining the connection between sports, black athletes and the Civil Rights Movement overall, it puts the athletes and their stories into the proper context. Rather than romanticizing the stories and the men and women who lived them, it uses the roles these individuals played—or chose not to play—to illuminate the complexities and nuances in the relationship between black athletes and the fight for racial equality. Arranged thematically, the book starts with Jackie Robinson's entry into baseball when he signed with the Dodgers in 1945 and ends with the revolt of black athletes in the late 1960s, symbolized by Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously raising their clenched fists during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics. Accounts from the black press and the athletes themselves help illustrate the role black athletes played in the Civil Rights Movement. At the same time, the book also examines how the black public viewed sports and the contributions of black athletes during these tumultuous decades, showing how the black communities' belief in merit and democracy—combined with black athletic success—influenced the push for civil rights.
Book Synopsis Black? White! Day? Night! by : Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Download or read book Black? White! Day? Night! written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover things are not always what they seem.
Book Synopsis On this Day in Black Music History by : Jay Warner
Download or read book On this Day in Black Music History written by Jay Warner and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rhythm and blues to hip-hop and jazz, this chronicle covers more than 60years of black music history and events with facts about hundreds of artists, from Count Basie to Queen Latifah.
Book Synopsis 1919, The Year of Racial Violence by : David F. Krugler
Download or read book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence written by David F. Krugler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black citizens. In city after city - Washington, DC; Chicago; Charleston; and elsewhere - black men and women took up arms to repel mobs that used lynching, assaults, and other forms of violence to protect white supremacy; yet, authorities blamed blacks for the violence, leading to mass arrests and misleading news coverage. Refusing to yield, African Americans sought accuracy and fairness in the courts of public opinion and the law. This is the first account of this three-front fight - in the streets, in the press, and in the courts - against mob violence during one of the worst years of racial conflict in US history.
Book Synopsis Black Love Signs by : Thelma Balfour
Download or read book Black Love Signs written by Thelma Balfour and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astrological guide to love relations is tailored to the experience, interests, and culture of the African American.
Book Synopsis New Day in Babylon by : William L. Van Deburg
Download or read book New Day in Babylon written by William L. Van Deburg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account available of the rise and fall of the Black Power Movement and of its dramatic transformation of both African-American and larger American culture. With a gift for storytelling and an ear for street talk, William Van Deburg chronicles a decade of deep change, from the armed struggles of the Black Panther party to the cultural nationalism of artists and writers creating a new aesthetic. Van Deburg contends that although its tactical gains were sometimes short-lived, the Black Power movement did succeed in making a revolution—one in culture and consciousness—that has changed the context of race in America. "New Day in Babylon is an extremely intelligent synthesis, a densely textured evocation of one of American history's most revolutionary transformations in ethnic group consciousness."—Bob Blauner, New York Times Winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, 1993
Book Synopsis Black Georgetown Remembered by : Kathleen M. Lesko
Download or read book Black Georgetown Remembered written by Kathleen M. Lesko and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.
Book Synopsis One Day I Saw a Black King by : J. D. Mason
Download or read book One Day I Saw a Black King written by J. D. Mason and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He stared at himself in the mirror, wondering how he'd managed to lose track of time. Complacency had managed to set in again. . . A decent job, warm home, food on the table, and a body to curl up next to at night; he'd made the mistake of getting comfortable. Comfort fooled him into thinking it was all good when it wasn't. Damn nightmares had a way of reminding him of that." Ever since he was fifteen, John King has been on the run from the ghosts of his past, always drifting, never settling down in one place or with one woman, though more than one has certainly made the offer of forever-after. But every time his memories of life back in Texas start to haunt him too deeply into the night, John realizes that it's time to move on. That is, until he rolls into Denver, Colorado, grooving to Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It on," and meets Connie Rodgers, a woman who grew up on the mean streets and has the pain and the battle scars to prove it. And yet, she inspires him to think "If indeed there were a home for the perfect kiss, it would be on her lips." John is reluctant to admit that here is a woman who just may understand his very soul, even if she does have some baggage of her own. But both must face their pasts if they ever hope to be free to live and love. Filled with completely unforgettable characters, One Day I Saw a Black King is a stunningly powerful story that explores the power of the past over the present, the search for love and belonging and the healing gift of an extraordinary love.
Book Synopsis Black Dawn, Bright Day by : Sun Bear
Download or read book Black Dawn, Bright Day written by Sun Bear and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling and prophetic work that details the environmental future of every major landmass in the world. The sacred teacher and author of The Medicine Wheel offers a compelling and prophetic work that details the environmental future of every major landmass in the world. Through his own visions and dreams, and the visions of other Native American peoples, Sun Bear has seen the future of our Earth, and here he explicitly details which parts of the world will be most affected.
Book Synopsis The Negro Motorist Green Book by : Victor H. Green
Download or read book The Negro Motorist Green Book written by Victor H. Green and published by Colchis Books. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
Book Synopsis The Day of the Black Blizzard by : Candice Ransom
Download or read book The Day of the Black Blizzard written by Candice Ransom and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ory Jenkins and his sister become stranded in the Black Sunday dust storm of April 14, 1935, and must find a way to survive.
Book Synopsis Black Sunday by : Tola Rotimi Abraham
Download or read book Black Sunday written by Tola Rotimi Abraham and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fiercely original debut novel follows four Nigerian siblings over the course of two decades as they search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy. “. . . lush, sharp, and shot through with hope!" —Well-Read Black Girl I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone. Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth. Soon Bibike and Ariyike’s father wagers the family home on a “sure bet” that evaporates like smoke. As their parents’ marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power. Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.
Download or read book Forgotten written by Linda Hervieux and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to this day.
Download or read book That Black Day written by Bill Wall and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1915, and Connie and Oisin, along with thousands of others, are returning from the peace and wealth of America to their home in Ireland. But the distant worry of the war is about to be brought home to them in the most brutal way possible.
Book Synopsis Black History in the Last Frontier by : Ian C. Hartman
Download or read book Black History in the Last Frontier written by Ian C. Hartman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
