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Complex story told clearly, concisely and compellingly
As Rooks relates, the "creation story"of Black Studies departments revolves around violence, upheaval, and successful demands by Black Power students. Yet even the ugly and protracted student strike which gave birth to the first Black Studies program at San Francisco State College in 1969 involved students of all races - 80% of the total student population, in fact. If we are to understand the state of Black Studies (morphing into African American and Diaspora Studies) today, she says it's time we honestly examined the racial diversity of the historical record - even if that makes us uncomfortable.

Over the years, Black Studies has meant different things to different people. To the black radicals,it meant separatism, empowerment, making education relevant to black students. To white administrators, it was a way to increase black enrollment or to address (or appear to address) a racial crisis. And to the Ford Foundation - whose money and vision are primarily responsible for the institutionalization of Black Studies as we know it today on many campuses - it was a means of integrating and diversifying higher education, but within the traditional model.

Though touching many of these bases, the book's central focus is the Ford Foundation's involvement because, as Rooks convincingly argues, their vision is largely responsible for the current legacy. And no small part of that legacy is the fact that the majority of enrollees in Black Studies classes on some campuses are white, and that in too many cases, Black Studies (indeed, blackness itself) has become "everything and nothing at all."

This is a complex and important story, told clearly, concisely and compellingly. I can't imagine anyone who cares about the future of Black Studies not reading this book and discussing it - perhaps even arguing about it -with their colleagues. ... Read more

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Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level. ... Read more

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This is the untold story of a generation that experienced one of the most extraordinary chapters in our nation's history--school desegregation. Many have attempted to define desegregation, which peaked in the late 1970s, as either a success or a failure; surprisingly few have examined the experiences of the students who lived though it. Featuring the voices of blacks, whites, and Latinos who graduated in 1980 from racially diverse schools, Both Sides Now offers a powerful firsthand account of how desegregation affected students--during high school and later in life. Their stories, set in a rich social and historical context, underscore the manifold benefits of school desegregation while providing an essential perspective on the current backlash against it. ... Read more

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Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movementÂ--distinct from the white Populist movementÂ--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and agrarian workers created their own organizations and tactics primarily under black leadership.

As Black Populism grew as a regional force, it met fierce resistance from the Southern Democrats and constituent white planters and local merchants. African Americans carried out a wide range of activities in this hostile environment. They established farming exchanges and cooperatives; raised money for schools; published newspapers; lobbied for better agrarian legislation; mounted boycotts against agricultural trusts and business monopolies; carried out strikes for better wages; protested the convict lease system, segregated coach boxes, and lynching; demanded black jurors in cases involving black defendants; promoted local political reforms and federal supervision of elections; and ran independent and fusion campaigns.

Growing out of the networks established by black churches and fraternal organizations, Black Populism found further expression in the Colored Agricultural Wheels, the southern branch of the Knights of Labor, the Cooperative Workers of America, the Farmers Union, and the Colored Farmers Alliance. In the early 1890s African Americans, together with their white counterparts, launched the PeopleÂ's Party and ran fusion campaigns with the Republican Party. By the turn of the century, Black Populism had been crushed by relentless attack, hostile propaganda, and targeted assassinations of leaders and foot soldiers of the movement.The movementÂ's legacy remains, though, as the largest independent black political movement until the rise of the modern civil rights movement.

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In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks.The appendices are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology. Indeed, two of the appendices were issued as a separate work given their importance for systematic theory in social research. The new introduction by Sissela Bok offers a remarkably intimate yet rigorously objective appraisal of Myrdal-a social scientist who wanted to see himself as an analytic intellectual, yet had an unbending desire to bring about change. An American Dilemma is testimonial to the man as well as the ideas he espoused.When It first appeared An American Dilemma was called "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilizations by Robert S. Lynd; "One of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written" in The American Political Science Review; and a book with "a novelty and a courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total society or of the part which the Negro plays in it" in The American Sociological Review. It is a foundation work for all those concerned with the history and current status of race relations in the United States. ... Read more

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While he was still in his twenties, Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton's band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing affordable, community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA) Foundation, were at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movements in black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists--musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists--passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. Based primarily on one hundred in-depth interviews with current and former participants, The Dark Tree is the first history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of African American Los Angeles. Brought to life by the passionate voices of the men and women who worked to make the arts integral to everyday community life, this engrossing book completes the account began in the highly acclaimed Central Avenue Sounds, which documented the secular music history of the first half of the twentieth century and which the San Francisco Examiner called "one of the best jazz books ever compiled." ... Read more

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The Dark Tree Flowers
Isoardi's book provides an insightful examination of L.A.'s vibrant African American art's community under the communal aspirations of the Union of God's Musicians and Artists (UGMAA). Most important is Isoardi's understanding of Black music and the chrismatic leadership of the legendary Horace Tapscott. This book provides a great overview of L.A.'s Black cultural history and how art played a profound influence in creating a cohesive community of cultural workers who were concerned with maintaining the tradition of African- American explorative practices, but by also passing these practices on to subsequent generations. There is a CD included with this book that gives readers the oportunity to hear a modest sampling of what emerged. This is an important book and a history we must not forget.

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Interesting, informative, & provocative reading. Facts galore; should be on every jazz enthusiastic's display bookshelf. I will not loan it to anyone for fear of it not being returned. ... Read more

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Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent African American writer during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947), and The Narrows (1988), along with various collections of short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities.

Petry's ancestors, the James family, served as inspiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more than four hundred letters among various family members shows a broad spectrum of middle-class black life and opinion. Collected and edited by the daughter of Ann Petry, Anything that Can Beat White? A Black Family's Letters is an engaging portrait of black family life from the 1890s to the early twentieth century, a period not often documented by African American voices.

Ann Petry's maternal grandfather, Willis Samuel James, was a slave taught by his children to read and write. He believed "the best place for the negro is as near the white man as he can get." He followed that "truth," working as coachman for a Connecticut governor and buying a house in a white neighborhood in Hartford. Willis had sixteen children by three wives. The letters in this collection are from him and his second wife, Anna E. Houston James, and five of Anna's children, of whom novelist Ann Petry's mother, Bertha James Lane, was the oldest.

History is made and remade by the availability of new documents, sources and interpretations. Anything that Can Beat White? contributes a great deal to this process. The experiences of the James family as documented in their letters challenge both representations of black people at the turn of the century as well as our contemporary sense of black Americans. ... Read more

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A rare and epic family saga
Meet the Jameses and the Lanes, the Chisholms and the Hudsons - all members of an extraordinary family of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who come alive in the pages of Elisabeth Petry's Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family's Letters (University Press of Mississippi).Despite the Southern publisher, most of the African Americans portrayed in this epic tale are Yankees. They are descendants of a Civil War hero who served as coachman for an 1870s governor of Connecticut; they are also the ancestors of the author and her mother, Ann Petry, a prominent writer who grew up as the daughter of pharmacists in coastal Old Saybrook. (In The Street, she later vividly chronicled the Harlem experience.)
Theletters in this book were preserved by a member of the family in a tin can used to store the drugstore ice cream cones. They were written during what Elisabeth Petry calls the "nadir" of the American black experience, the period 1890-1910, the years of lynchings and the Supreme Court's Jim Crow decision, Plessy vs. Ferguson.But these were also the years of black progress, of the dueling worldviews of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.The ordinary lives of this handful of African Americans is set against this backdrop - a friend writes frighteningly of the murderous 1906 Atlanta race riots - but there is so much more.
There is the attempt of members of the family to do well in business, in educating themselves, in the military. There are the stumbling of any individuals in close relation - the father who neglects the daughter's graduation, requiring her to seek charity for her white dress for the occasion; the son who shoots a white man in the South, then appeals for money to bribe the sheriff; and the sense of shame that led the keeper of these letters quite clearly to destroy some of them. But there are heroes in here, the beautiful Bertha, who took care of her brothers and sisters, the main characters of this drama; her sister Harriet, full of spirit, who died an untimely death; and the brilliant Helen, who studied at some of the few venues available for African American women, Hampton Institute and Atlanta University,taught at an orphanage in Hawaii and later in a rural school in South Carolina. Her writing is the most memorable, as when she described a Hawaiian church service in which an old man "spat on the floor until he was tired of it, then from a little distance sent it through a broken pane of glass in a sash behind the minister."
Elisabeth Petry has wisely turned her collection of letters into a narrative, weaving together the threads of her family's tale while quoting copiously from them, so that the themes of striving and family troubles and hope shine through. She hints at each character's tale, then devotes entire chapters to each one, so that we end up feeling as though we'd lived though important years of their varied and intriguing lives.
Petry has now (2008) published another family-related work with Mississippi:At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry. Judging from the first, it should be another compelling read.

An Amazing Snapshot of History
Liz Petry does a masterful job of combining history as we learned it with history in the words of those who were actually there.Finding and sharing letters from her ancestors and presenting them in the context of the world as they knew it is an incredible gift to our generation.This gem of a book gives a clear look at the everyday lives, the education and ambition of people who overcame the rigors and abuses of slavery and took their rightful places in post Civil War society.I found it enlightening and fascinating that it took only one generation to progress from slavery to college degrees.These wonderful people then passed their legacy of education and achievement to their progeny.In my opinion, this book should be required reading in every American History class in every high school and every college.

I was so taken by this brilliant composition, that I recommended it to a cousin working on a thesis concerning northern desegregation between 1954-1980 in the hope that such wonderful, first-hand, historical information would be helpful.He was thrilled.

Congratulations, Liz.Your work is superb, and I look forward to your next book, "At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry."

M. E. McMillan
Author of "Rebirth of the Oracle - Tarot for the Modern World," and as Elizabeth Blackstone, author of "Virtual Strangers, A Woman's Guide to Love and Sex on the Internet" and "The Commoner's Guide to Dog Breeding."

A fascinating history lesson
I'm not a history buff per se but I found the James family collection of letters fascinating because it tells the story of an African-American family that was solidly middle class in the late 1800s at a time in America's history when most people were poor or struggling. Though historically rich, the book is told through the original voices of family members through their letters to one another so the reading is engaging and fast-paced.I wish I had read more like it when I was in school. ... Read more

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Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography,Troupe--one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s--had exceptional access to the musician. This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the autobiography to describe in detail the processes of Davis's spectacular creativity and the joys and difficulties his passionate, contradictory temperament posed to the men's friendship. It shows how Miles Davis, both as a black man and an artist, influenced not only Quincy Troupe but whole generations.
Troupe has written that Miles Davis was "irascible, contemptuous, brutally honest, ill-tempered when things didn't go his way, complex, fair-minded, humble, kind and a son-of-a-bitch." The author's love and appreciation for Davis make him a keen, though not uncritical, observer. He captures and conveys the power of the musician's presence, the mesmerizing force of his personality, and the restless energy that lay at the root of his creativity. He also shows Davis's lighter side: cooking, prowling the streets of Manhattan, painting, riding his horse at his Malibu home. Troupe discusses Davis's musical output, situating his albums in the context of the times--both political and musical--out of which they emerged. Miles and Me is an unparalleled look at the act of creation and the forces behind it, at how the innovations of one person can inspire both those he knows and loves and the world at large. ... Read more

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miles and me , and me too .
voila le livre comporte un fabuleux passage où l'on découvre que au delà des critiques les musiciens communiques et son humain et consciens de leurs faiblesse , mais ils ne peuvent se battre contre certaine chose qui sont au-delà de leur seul capacité .
A lire pour le passage stratosphérique sur Mc coy tyner .

Gets just about as close as you can get to a legend.
I just picked up the "Bitches Brew Complete Sessions" on CD. Troupe has a long essay in the liner notes that are seemingly taken right from this book (or vice versa). Given there are so many Miles Davis books out there, I have to say I really like Quincy Troupe's approach because he is not some music professor or cultural critic analyzing or deconstructing Miles and "the meaning" of his music, blah, blah, blah. Rather, Troupe was there with Miles in the same room, in the car, eating dinner, wherever. That's the real value of this book. If you put Miles on that high pedestal you may not want to read the book: Troupe details some incredibly awkward and tense situations with Miles's temper which made everyone run for cover; but there are also moments of showing Miles with his force field down. One can only imagine how fascinating and frustrating it would be to meet, let alone have a friendship with, one of your idols.

An intriguing view of a Legend.
I enjoyed both books written about Miles by Quince Troupe.In my opinion Troupe has the uncanny ability to write from a perspective that allows a reader to see the personal side of his subject.Troupe's "no holds barred" approach permits the reader to form their own opinion and paint their own picture.This book portrays Miles as both a legend and human being who confronts life's challenges in both positive and negative ways.Be sure to read this book with an open mind.Sometimes it hurts to see our heroes, who we've placed on such a high level fail in some areas of life.

Very interesting
I picked up this book not knowing what to expect, hoping mainly to get some insight into one of my favorite musicians. On that level this book delivers. The author was very close friends with Miles through the later stages of his life and the book centers around the time they spent together and Troupe's perceptions of Miles during this time.We learn that Miles, while a brilliant and influencial musician, had his share of flaws and Troupe makes no attempt to cover these up - this book is not for those who cannot conceive seeing their hero portrayed in a sometimes negative light.The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was because sometimes the author let his personal views and beliefs get in the way. Personally I would rather read about Miles than Troupe, but oh well, it is his book.

A MUST READ FOR MILES FANS!
I've been a fan of Miles Davis since hearing "Kind of Blue" in1992.Miles legend precedes him and this book helped me gain a betterunderstanding of him as an artist, musician and man.

I especially likedthe way the author used Miles music to recollect his own life--what he wasdoing and how he felt about each new release.For a fan like me, that gaveme a idea of how it would have been to anxiously await each new Miles Davisalbum.

Quincy Troupe was obviously a fan and a friend.I'm glad he wrotethis book. ... Read more

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On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. Uncertain Suffering provides a richly nuanced examination of what this fact means for health care in the United States through the lens of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primarily affects blacks. In a wide ranging analysis that moves from individual patient cases to the compassionate yet distanced professionalism of health care specialists to the level of national policy, Carolyn Moxley Rouse uncovers the cultural assumptions that shape the quality and delivery of care for sickle cell patients. She reveals a clinical world fraught with uncertainties over how to treat black patients given resource limitations and ambivalence. Her book is a compelling look at the ways in which the politics of racism, attitudes toward pain and suffering, and the reliance on charity for healthcare services for the underclass can create disparities in the U.S. Instead of burdening hospitals and clinics with the task of ameliorating these disparities, Rouse argues that resources should be redirected to community-based health programs that reduce daily forms of physical and mental suffering. ... 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

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"Not My Shadow" uses real life situations of African American urban life from a first person perspective, and depicts struggles with culture, social dualities, and powerful social forces within and outside the African American community. Personal and professional experience and proven anecdotes are used to offer strategies and activities for improving the African American situation.

The author literally inserts the reader into the African American community experience.Journey through a day at school, a Sunday church service, and other exciting and painful real life situations, and experience the African American community from the inside out!

Join the author chapter by chapter in laughter, tears, fear, and reflection as he grows up in the streets of North Philly, and develops strategies for the future of an American community. ... Read more

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Mind's Eye
Mr. Rodger's book is informative, witty, and intelligent about the African American experience.A mind's eye view of such subjects as spirituality, religion, and economics.It is truly a "MUST READ".

Tempered Radical
Not My Shadow is both powerful and inspirational.One man's life experiences combined with historic events, deep emotion and reflective interpretation have made this book a true must read.

Kenneth Rodgers (author) is a "Tempered Radical."He has brilliantly captured the essence of our being and provided all of us with a profound message from which to learn.With the courage to say what so many of us only wish to say, he has given us voice - brilliantly describing feelings we deeply feel, but may not know how to fully express, or perhaps even understand.As a true Tempered Radical - the author is that "quiet catalyst pushing back against prevailing norms, creating learning and laying the groundwork for slow but ongoing social change."

The concepts, theme and messages that run through the entire book, tie together beautifully towards the end.Mr. Rodgers' interpretation of spirituality, religion, education, law, politics, economics, entertainment and sociology leave you with a heightened appreciation of our past, and an understanding of the need for unity and strength in our future.You must have a truly open mind to enjoy and appreciate the messages that lie within. Like he said, "you just kind of have to be there."

I laughed, I cried, I personally related to many of the stories in this book.My hat off to you, Mr. Rodgers, for having true courage; and using yourself as the vehicle in which to teach, educate and enable all of us to learn!!Bravo!!
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Three contemporary novels of slavery-Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986), and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987)-are the central focus of Liberating Narratives. Reflecting their individual and sociopolitical contexts of origin, these three novels can be read as critiques of historical representation and as alternative spaces for remembrance-"sites of memory"-that attempt to shift the conceptual ground on which our knowledge of the past is based. Within a theoretical framework informed by recent black feminist and narrative discussions, the book analyzes the textual strategies that these authors use to conceptualize and authorize these liberating imaginative spaces-spaces in which African American women are central historical agents. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Dictionary of American History, 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 990 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.Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country. Entries contain descriptive summaries of the country in question, including demographic, historical, cultural, economic, religious, and political information. ... Read more

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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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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, American Society of African Culture. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Great MigrationCivil Rights Movements 18961954 and19551968Second Great MigrationAfrocentrism The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is a an organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History. It is a non-profit organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, on September 9, 1915 and incorporated in Washington, D.C. on October 2, 1915 as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland. The association is based in Washington, D.C. ASNLH was renamed the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History in 1973. ASALH's official mission is "to promote, research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community." American Historical Association ASALH's official vision is " to be the premier Black Heritage and learned society with a diverse and inclusive membership supported by a strong network of national and international branches to continue the Woodson legacy." American Historical Association ASALH created Negro History Week in 1926. Woodson selected the week to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Each year, Woodson established a national theme for the celebration. Since 1976, ASALH extended the celebration for the entire month of February. The organization publishes The Journal of African American History (formerly The Journal of Negro History), and the Black History Bulle... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3026963 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of Education, 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 1803 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.This uniquely interdisciplinary resource covers legal, sociological, psychological, historical, and economic aspects of crime and justice worldwide. Entries cover civil and criminal issues, from domestic violence to terrorism. Entries cite pertinent legal cases as well as publications for further information. ... Read more

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African America can be found throughout North America. The essays included in this volume take the creation of an African American world as a single object of study, tracing significant routes and contacts, using comparisons and contrasts. This book reworks traditional approaches to the study of history, critiques of literature and culture, and the production of knowledge. Each essay locates the African American experience within a wider pan-African vision that links the colonial with the postcolonial, the past with the present, and the African with the Western. Mapping African America sketches lines that extend our knowledge of the African influence on and participation in what is generally called "Western'' culture. This creative challenge to traditional disciplines will not only enhance the reader's understanding of African American studies, but will also help forge links with other academic fields of inquiry. ... Read more