Black Odyssey

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760243
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Odyssey by : Nathan Irvin Huggins

Download or read book Black Odyssey written by Nathan Irvin Huggins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.

Romare Bearden

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Publisher : DC Moore Gallery, New York
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Romare Bearden by : Robert G. O'Meally

Download or read book Romare Bearden written by Robert G. O'Meally and published by DC Moore Gallery, New York. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Bridget Moore. Text by Robert G. O'Meally.

A Black Odyssey

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Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Black Odyssey by : Randall Bennett Woods

Download or read book A Black Odyssey written by Randall Bennett Woods and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1981 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book focuses on the career of a single individual--an ambitious, resourceful Black American--and his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world. No Black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so than John Lewis Waller. Waller, whose first twelve years were spent in slavery, overcame his humble beginnings to become a politician, lawyer, journalist, and diplomat. Nevertheless, his life provides a case study of a middle class black caught between a desire to work within the existing political and economic framework and a need to reject a milieu that was becoming increasingly racist"--From University of Kansas Press website.

A Black Intellectual's Odyssey

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478021519
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis A Black Intellectual's Odyssey by : Martin Kilson

Download or read book A Black Intellectual's Odyssey written by Martin Kilson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler to his experiences attending Lincoln University—the country's oldest HBCU—to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending his entire career there as a faculty member. This is as much a story of his travels from the racist margins of twentieth-century America to one of the nation's most prestigious institutions as it is a portrait of the places that shaped him. He gives a sweeping sociological tour of Ambler as a multiethnic, working-class company town while sketching the social, economic, and racial elements that marked everyday life. From narrating the area's history of persistent racism and the racial politics in the integrated schools to describing the Black church's role in buttressing the town's small Black community, Kilson vividly renders his experience of northern small-town life during the 1930s and 1940s. At Lincoln University, Kilson's liberal political views coalesced as he became active in the local NAACP chapter. While at Lincoln and during his graduate work at Harvard, Kilson observed how class, political, and racial dynamics influenced his peers' political engagement, diverse career paths, and relationships with white people. As a young professor, Kilson made a point of assisting Harvard's African American students in adapting to life at a white institution. Throughout his career, Kilson engaged in pioneering scholarship while mentoring countless students. A Black Intellectual's Odyssey features contributions from three of his students: a foreword by Cornel West and an afterword by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten.

Black Odysseys

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Publisher : Classical Presences
ISBN 13 : 0199605009
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Odysseys by : Justine McConnell

Download or read book Black Odysseys written by Justine McConnell and published by Classical Presences. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores works from Africa and the African diaspora which respond to the Homeric Odyssey. As a founding text of the Western canon, and as a homecoming trope and quest for identity, the Odyssey has inspired writers who are simultaneously striving against and appropriating the very forms which had been used to oppress them.

A Voting Rights Odyssey

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521011792
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis A Voting Rights Odyssey by : Laughlin McDonald

Download or read book A Voting Rights Odyssey written by Laughlin McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Black Odyssey

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Odyssey by : Roi Ottley

Download or read book Black Odyssey written by Roi Ottley and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans -- History

The European Tribe

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052556280X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Book Synopsis The European Tribe by : Caryl Phillips

Download or read book The European Tribe written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly descriptive and haunting narrative, Caryl Phillips chronicles a journey through modern-day Europe, his quest guided by a moral compass rather than a map. Seeking personal definition within the parameters of growing up black in Europe, he discovers that the natural loneliness and confusion inherent in long jorneys collides with the bigotry of the "European Tribe"-a global community of whites caught up in an unyielding, Eurocentric history. Phillips deftly illustrates the scenes and characters he encounters, from Casablanca and Costa del Sol to Venice, Amsterdam, Oslo, and Moscow. He ultimately discovers that "Europe is blinded by her past, and does not understand the high price of her churches, art galleries, and history as the prison from which Europeans speak." In the afterword to the Vintage edition, Phillips revisits the Europe he knew as a young man and offers fresh observations.

Black Moses

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299012131
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Moses by : E. David Cronon

Download or read book Black Moses written by E. David Cronon and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1960-03-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, Marcus Garvey sowed the seeds of a new black pride and determination. Attacked by the black intelligentsia and ridiculed by the white press, this Jamaican immigrant astonished all with his black nationalist rhetoric. In just four years, he built the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest and most powerful all-black organization the nation had ever seen. With hundreds of branches, throughout the United States, the UNIA represented Garvey’s greatest accomplishment and, ironically, the source of his public disgrace. Black Moses brings this controversial figure to life and recovers the significance of his life and work. “Those who are interested in the revolutionary aspects of the twentieth century in America should not miss Cronon’s book. It makes exciting reading.”—The Nation “A very readable, factual, and well-documented biography of Marcus Garvey.”—The Crisis, NAACP “In a short, swiftly moving, penetrating biography, Mr. Cronon has made the first real attempt to narrate the Garvey story. From the Jamaican's traumatic race experiences on the West Indian island to dizzy success and inglorious failure on the mainland, the major outlines are here etched with sympathy, understanding, and insight.”—Mississippi Valley Historical Review (Now the Journal of American History). “Good reading for all serious history students.”—Jet “A vivid, detailed, and sound portrait of a man and his dreams.”—Political Science Quarterly

Let it Bang

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Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 1328826333
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Book Synopsis Let it Bang by : R. J. Young (Writer)

Download or read book Let it Bang written by R. J. Young (Writer) and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest--funny and searing--of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun better than a white person

Into the Black

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Publisher : 47north
ISBN 13 : 9781612182346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (823 download)

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Book Synopsis Into the Black by : Evan Currie

Download or read book Into the Black written by Evan Currie and published by 47north. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond the confines of our small world, far from the glow of our star, lies a galaxy and universe much larger and more varied than anyone on Earth can possibly imagine. For the new NAC spacecraft Odyssey and her crew, the unimaginable facets of this untouched world are about to become reality. The Odyssey's maiden voyage is an epic adventure destined to make history. Captain Eric Weston and his crew, pushing past the boundaries of security, encounter horrors, wonders, monsters, and people, all of which will test their resolve, challenge their abilities, and put in sharp relief what is necessary to be a hero. A first-rate military science fiction epic that combines old-school space opera and modern storytelling, Into the Black: Odyssey One is a riveting, exhilarating adventure with vivid details, rich mythology, and relentless pacing"--P. [4] of cover.

Spirit and Soul

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146918625X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)

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Book Synopsis Spirit and Soul by : Theodore Kirkland

Download or read book Spirit and Soul written by Theodore Kirkland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirit and Soul: Odyssey of a Black Man in America, Volume One, an engaging, edifying autobiography by Theodore Kirkland, offers critical insight and politically cognizant commentary on the past, future and real-time reality of race relations in America. His long career in law enforcement some 39 years total as a military police officer, Buffalo police officer, New York State parole board commissioner and adjunct professor begins by happenstance in the Air Force. Instead of being sent to gunnery school as he requested, he is ordered to report to the Army Military Police Academy in Camp Gordon, Georgia. Kirkland's narrative voice in this page turner is clear, self-effacing and relentlessly candid unapologetic for the black and white of his experience, and cautionary in his instruction for navigation through the gray. Yet in every syllable, there is a remarkable, palpable love for his family, friends and community and unyielding commitment to upholding the Constitutional promise that "all men are created equal." Spirit and Soul: Odyssey of a Black Man in America, Volume One is at once witty and wise; poignant, wistful and meticulously illustrative of an American perspective too often shadowed by stereotypes that contend that Black men contribute primarily to the prison population. It also is an important chronology of the evolution of African American life and experience from Jim Crow to contemporary "Post-racial America."

The Rest of the Dream

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081315698X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rest of the Dream by : Wade Hall

Download or read book The Rest of the Dream written by Wade Hall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson was born in 1906 during the darkest days of segregation. He learned from his father not to sit in the "crow's nest" reserved for blacks in his hometown movie theater. This refusal to accept second-class citizenship became a guiding principle in Johnson's life. Johnson was almost forty-three when he won admission to graduate study at the University of Kentucky in 1949. Crosses were burned on campus. Because of his family commitments, he returned to his teaching position in Louisville and never completed his doctorate. Thirty years later the university that fought to keep him out awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree. Johnson earned his doctorate the hard way—by saying no to the crow's nest and other marks of inequality. Johnson's graphic recall of people and incidents and his storyteller's talent for narrative make this record of a unique American life filled with suspense, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

Catalogue of Printed Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Catalogue of Printed Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
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Book Synopsis Catalogue of Printed Books by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books

Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Odyssey of a Black Woman

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453569340
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis Odyssey of a Black Woman by : Candace Reece

Download or read book Odyssey of a Black Woman written by Candace Reece and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together all the memories that shape the author’s life, Odyssey of a Black Woman is an inspiring memoir that relates Reece’s odyssey. Here, she narrates how she, as a young girl, endured the pain of getting no attention from her parents—her father was focused in his church, while her mother was busy in her work. As she evolved into a young lady, she took every chance of getting attention and happiness until she found the man whom she thought would complete her life. But little did she know that her marriage with this man was the beginning of her arduous and tormenting life. She had to deal with a drunkard, happy-go-lucky, most of the time irresponsible, and a problem husband. But later on, she found her own family at her side. Though her father’s death aggrieved her so much, she was still proud to be a preacher’s kid. From then on, she faced life with power and positivity—a warrior armed with love, faith, and upbeat emotions. Throughout this book, readers will find a story of a woman who faces a childhood of emptiness, an adolescence of passion and careless decisions, a marriage of pain and suffering, and a new life filled with goodness. The Odyssey of a Black Woman is a story of pain, love, loss, redemption and renewal. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com.

Black Odyssey

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Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140046946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Black Odyssey written by Mary Cable and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839, thirty black slaves being transported from Havana to Puerto Príncipe aboard the Amistad took control of the ship and attempted to return to Africa. Instead, the whites sailed north, until the ship was spotted and taken to Connecticut. When President Van Buren attempted to return the slaves to Cuba, the abolitionists, led by John Quincy Adams, took the slaves' case to the U.S. Supreme Court.