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Leonardo's writings on painting--among the most remarkable from any era--were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated for the first time. The resulting volume is an invaluable reference work for art historians as well as for anyone interested in the mind and methods of one of the world's greatest creative geniuses. ... Read more

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In 1952, Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) published his novel Invisible Man, which transformed the dynamics of American literature. The novel won the National Book Award, extended the themes of his early short stories, and dramatized in fictional form the cultural theories expressed in his essay collections Shadow & Act and Going to the Territory.

In Shadowing Ralph Ellison, John Wright traces Ellison’s intellectual and aesthetic development, and the evolution of his cultural philosophy, throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison’s published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his passionate exchanges with—and impact on—other literary intellectuals during the Cold War 1950s and during the Culture Wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Wright examines Ellison’s body of work through the lens of Ellison’s cosmopolitan philosophy of art and culture, which the writer began to construct during the late 1930s.Ellison, Wright argues, eschewed orthodoxy in both political and cultural discourse, maintaining that to achieve the highest cultural awareness and the greatest personal integrity, the individual must cultivate forms of thinking and acting that are fluid, improvisational, and vitalistic—like the blues and jazz.Accordingly, Ellison elaborated throughout his body of work the innumerable ways that rigid cultural labels, categories, and concepts—from racial stereotypes and fashionable academic theories to conventional political doctrines—fail to capture the full potential of human consciousness. Instead, Ellison advocated forms of consciousness and culture akin to what the blues and jazz reveal; and he portrayed those musical traditions as the best embodiment of the evolving American spirit. ... Read more

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Moral psychology studies the features of cognition, judgement, perception and emotion that make human beings capable of moral action. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions about mind, feeling, and action in contexts of social difference and unequal power and opportunity. These essays by a distinguished international cast of philosophers explore moral psychology as it connects to social life, scientific studies, and literature. ... Read more

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For many years the poem "Footprints" was an anonymous sensation, spreading its message of divine care on plaques, cards, calendars, and posters all over the world. But in 1989, Margaret Fishback Powers emerged as the author of the poem. Here Powers tells the inspiring story of how the famous poem was written, its personal meaning, and the role it has played in her own life. ... Read more

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Footprints (minature edition)
I had to smile when I recieved my "minature" edition of Footprints as I hadn't relize just how small it would be.However, I love the little book and it is just right to tuck in someone's pocket or slip into their hand when they are for some reason "down and out".Makes a lovely "just because..." gift.

Footprints: Scripture with Reflections Inspired by the Best-Loved Poem
I had given it as a gift and read part of it wanted to buy it for myselt.

Author shows class !
Being an author and a poet myself, I have experienced having writtings taken by others and posted on their own websites - without references back to the source;nor did they ask permission to use them. However, I have always managed to contact them and "gift" them to right to use my creations - as long as they credited me as the source. I am not sure how I would feel if someone had outright taken my creative works and said they were their own. That is what happened to Margaret Powers and her poem "footrprints". It is so hard to imagine that someone could steal the idea with a spiritual based theme and claim it as their own work.

I believe her story and find her a very loving soul - at least, that is what is projected from her book. The book is a simple a short read but well worth it.

She Wrote It
Margaret Fishback Powers is an extraordinary woman who has been through and accomplished extraordinary things. What's more is I know the woman behind the book and the poem. She is heartfelt and genuine. She and her husband, also an author, tour the world in the name of Christ and are not boastful in any way. I'm sad to see people deny her rights to the poem and I'm glad for her that she finally gets the credit (in most cases) that she deserves.

The REAL Truth about Footprints
Margret Fishback Powers did not write "Footprints in the Sand".It was written by Floyd Keaton of Red Oak, Iowa during WWII.There are many people who have seen his ORIGINAL dated manuscript writtin in pencil on notebook paper PRIOR to 1964.Please contact the Montgomery County Historical Society in Red Oak for more information. ... Read more

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For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker gives the long-overdue recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. Margaret Walker has been described by scholar Jerry Ward as "a national treasure" and by Nikki Giovanni as the "most famous person nobody knows." Her signature poem, For My People, written when she was 22, set a tone and a level of commitment which African American literature has been responding to ever since.For My People combines conversations with Margaret Walker, commentary from leading scholars and readings from her poetry to make a powerful argument for the centrality of her work to 20th century American literature. At the heart of her poetry are the rhythms of African and African American speech and music - gospel, spiritual, ballads and folktales. In contrast to most contemporary poets, she did not aspire to a "personal" poetry but "to write the songs of my people - to frame their dreams into words, their souls into notes." ... Read more

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Chapters: Jimmy Carter, Alice Walker, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'connor, Joel Chandler Harris, Nancy A. Collins, Sidney Lanier, Michael Bishop, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Thomas Holley Chivers, Charles Davis Tillman, Stuart Woods, Frank Lebby Stanton, Diana Palmer, Jonathan Krohn, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Lewis Grizzard, Mary Hood, Charles B. Towns, Percival Everett, Edward E. Kramer, Samuel W. Small, Albert Hodges Morehead, Erskine Caldwell, Augusta Jane Evans, Louis Lomax, James Dickey, Abram Joseph Ryan, John Rollin Ridge, Daniel J. Boorstin, Iris Johansen, Philip Yancey, W. Watts Biggers, Wilbur Howard Duncan, Betty Reynolds Cobb, Mark Katzman, Zz Packer, Jacques Futrelle, Louis R. Harlan, Steve Ekstrom, Clement A. Evans, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alfred Uhry, Patrick Phillips, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Corra May Harris, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Don West, Ward Morehouse, Laura Lippman, Hosea Hudson, Edward J. Cashin, Jeff Kipnis, Bruce Feiler, Janisse Ray, Mac Hyman, Raymond Andrews, Janelle Taylor, Paul Hamilton Hayne, Bailey White, Anne Rivers Siddons, Frances Mayes, Sue Monk Kidd, Mary Schmich, Furman Bisher, Ernest Neal, Murray M. Silver, Jr., John O'brien, A. E. Stallings, John Egerton, Natasha Trethewey, Gena Knox, Terry Kay, Byron Herbert Reece, Ferrol Sams, Bill Arp, Edgar Oliver, Steve Berry, Larry Neal, John Donald Wade, Brainard Cheney, Maurice Thompson, Stanley Booth, Lauretta Hannon, Greg Baer, Tom Deitz, Lonnie Coleman, Olive Ann Burns, Belle Kendrick Abbott, Anne Nichols, Brad Strickland, Charles Perry, James W. Fowler, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Paul Preuss, Michael S. Piazza, Bertice Berry, Laurel Snyder, Henry Grady Weaver, Forest Clark Johnson, Iii, Vereen Bell, Eva Marie Everson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 459. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, J...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15992 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Mississippi State University on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 586 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Margaret Walker Alexander, a prominent author in the black community, and known to her students at Jackson State University for her teaching abilities, appreciates Tennessee Williams as a modern playwright whom she considers a forerunner of the Theater of the Absurd. 'Streetcar Named Desire' is her favorite play and she considers this, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and 'The Glass Menagerie' to be Williams' best. Walker also admires actors such as Marlon Brando and Jessica Tandy who have been cast in many Williams plays.

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Title: An interview with Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander on Tennessee Williams.(Special Issue: Tennessee Williams)(Interview)
Author: Patricia Grierson
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: Mississippi State University
Volume: v48Issue: n4Page: p587(2)

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 578 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Yearbook of English Studies, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on January 1, 2004. The length of the article is 563 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker.(Book Review)
Author: Stephen Matterson
Publication: Yearbook of English Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 34Page: 341(2)

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Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emerging nations not as a sightseer but as a student of their cultures, learning the politics and the processes of social transformation.

When Wright fled from the United States in 1946 to live as an expatriate in Paris, he was exposed to intellectual thoughts and challenges that transcended his social and political education in America. Three events broadened his world view- his introduction to French existentialism, the rise of the Pan-Africanist movement to decolonize Africa, and Indonesia's declaration of independence from colonial rule in 1945. During the 1950s as he traveled to emerging nations his encounters produced four travel narratives-Black Power (1953), The Color Curtain (1956), Pagan Spain (1956), and White Man, Listen! (1957). Upon his death in 1960, he left behind an unfinished book on French West Africa, which exists only in notes, outlines, and a draft.

Written by multinational scholars, this collection of essays exploring Wright's travel writings shows how in his hands the genre of travel writing resisted, adapted, or modified the forms and formats practiced by white authors. Enhanced by nine photographs taken by Wright during his travels, the essays focus on each of Wright's four separate narratives as well as upon his unfinished book and reveal how Wright drew on such non-Western influences as the African American slave narrative and Asian literature of protest and resistance. The essays critique Wright's representation of customs and people and employ a broad range of interpretive modes, including the theories of formalism, feminism, and postmodernism, among others.

Wright's travel books are proved here to be innovative narratives that laid down the roots of such later genres as postcolonial literature, contemporary travel writing, and resistance literature.

Virginia Whatley Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Her work has appeared in African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, and MLA Approaches to Teaching Wright's 'Native Son.' ... Read more

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Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture examines popular culture’s reliance on long-standing stereotypes of black men as animalistic, hypersexual, dangerous criminals, whose bodies, dress, actions, attitudes, and language both repel and attract white audiences. Author Linda G. Tucker studies this trope in the images of well-known African American men in four cultural venues: contemporary literature, black-focused films, sports commentary, and rap music.

Through rigorous analysis, the book argues that American popular culture’s representations of black men preserve racial hierarchies that imprison blacks both intellectually and physically. Of equal importance are the ways in which black men battle against, respond to, and become implicated in the production and circulation of these images.

Tucker cites examples ranging from Michael Jordan’s underwear commercials and the popular Barbershop movies, to the career of rapper Tupac Shakur and John Edgar Wideman’s memoir Brothers and Keepers. Lockstep and Dance tracks the continuity between historical images of African American men, the peculiar constitution of whites’ anxieties about black men, and black men’s tolerance of and resistance to the reproduction of such images. The legacy of these stereotypes is still apparent in contemporary advertising, film, music, and professional basketball. Lockstep and Dance argues persuasively that these cultural images reinforce the idea of black men as prisoners of American justice and of their own minds but also shows how black men struggle against this imprisonment. ... Read more

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Un-locksteped understanding
In a nation where the mythology of freedom is so doggedly written in the minds and hearts of its citizens, an unusual gift and talent is required to see beyond the slogans of sublime intentions or constant political artifice. And to further have the courage to staple that vision or idea to the public bulletin boards, where it is sure to provoke harsh criticism from the many who will not be free enough in their minds and thoughts to begin to understand, is honorable.
Lock Step and Dance speaks to the contemporary context of bondage. It shows us the prisons we see and do not see by illuminating the inmates, the wardens, and the governors, and why they are and do what they do. In it we see the struggle for language and representation and the struggle for ownership of one's person.
The book ferries us aptly across a number of cultural enclaves, while explaining the author's position; however, even with the obvious affinity and knowledge shown for areas of Hip Hop, I would like to have seen the issues explored further still through her foray into this significant cultural explosion.
Lockstep and Dance, by examining the modern imprisonment of African American men, and the literal and the unseen "prison writ large," points to the way to make the reality of freedom closer to the cherished mythology. By examining the historical inhumanities of America, it opens us to greater possibilities of humanity. If we have the courage to read with open minds as the author has the courage to write, we may find a deeper meaning in a 21st century obligation to define ourselves as a species that improves upon our transgressions rather than a species that continues to live them out.
I think the book is right on the mark.

Well worth reading
The other review posted so far for this work resorts to ad hominem attacks on Tucker and does readers the disservice of a review so distasteful, they might accidentally hold the critic's words against this text.

Dr. Tucker's insights into such interesting topics as advertising and athletics required extensive research--and her approach is thoughtful and intelligent.Her work will likely strike a cord with anyone interested in the fields of popular culture or African American studies.I sincerely hope that Tucker turns her academic lens toward African American women; such a work would further the strides that _Lockstep and Dance_ makes as it explores what black and white mean in visual and verbal representations in the U.S.

Pure garbage
This woman was an instructor at the Arkansas University where I was also employed. I read portions of this several years ago. It was a tremendous waste of time. Her syllabus read like something out of an asylum. Did a vanity press publish this drivel?? ... Read more