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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-02
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Describes and analyzes the phenomenon of multicultural political conservatism in the US. Arguing that conservative politics are no longer the exclusive domain of white, wealthy males, but instead a collection of people from all races, ethnicities, gender and sexualities, Dillard (history, politics, New York U.) explores what this new influx of ideas means for the conservative movement, its members and the country as a whole. Particular attention is paid to the marginalization of minority conservatives, who are welcomed only with hesitation by the conservative movement, and shunned, without hesitation, as "sell-outs" by their own ethnic, racial or sexual groups. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Faith in the City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Faith in the City

A milestone study of religion's place in Detroit's protest communities, from the 1930s to the 1960s

The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X

This Companion presents new perspectives on Malcolm X's life and legacy for students of American history.

Singing in a Strange Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Singing in a Strange Land

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-21
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  • Publisher: Little Brown

Salvatore tells the story of C.L. Franklin, father of Aretha, alongside the rise of gospel, blues, and soul music, with a cast of characters including Martin Luther King, Jr., B.B. King, Art Tatum, Coleman Young, Jesse Jackson, Clara Ward, Mahalia Jackson, and many others.

For the Time Being
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

For the Time Being

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-19
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  • Publisher: Vintage

National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." --Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birt...

Race, Religion, and the Pulpit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Race, Religion, and the Pulpit

Bradby's efforts as an activist and "race leaderby examining the role the minister played in high-profile events, such as the organizing of Detroit's NAACP chapter, the Ossian Sweet trial of the mid-1920s, the Scottsboro Boys trials in the 1930s, and the controversial rise of the United Auto Workers in Detroit in the 1940s.

Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-19
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

The latest vocabulary of key terms in American Studies Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded second edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond. It is equally useful for college students who are trying to understand what their teachers are talking about, for general readers who want to know what’s new in scholarly research, and for professors who jus...

The Common Wind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

The Common Wind

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-27
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful “history from below.” Scott follows the spread of “rumors of emancipation” and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution.By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military dese...

Freedom North
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Freedom North

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged triumphant in the early 1960s, only to be derailed by the twin forces of Black Power and white backlash when it sought to move outside the South after 1965. African American protest and political movements outside the South appear as ancillary and subsequent to the 'real' movement in the South, despite the fact that black activism existed in the North, Midwest, and West in the 1940s, and persisted well into the 1970s. This book brings together new scholarship on black social movements outside the South to rethink the civil rights narrative and the place of race in recent history. Each chapter focuses on a different location and movement outside the South, revealing distinctive forms of U.S. racism according to place and the varieties of tactics and ideologies that community members used to attack these inequalities, to show that the civil rights movement was indeed a national movement for racial justice and liberation.

The Serpent King
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

The Serpent King

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-03
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  • Publisher: Random House

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal Winner of the American Library Association Morris Award for best debut YA Winner of the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award for Young Adult Fiction A Buzzfeed Best of 2016 book Goodreads Choice Awards finalist A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2016 Publishers Weekly Best of 2016 Dill is a misfit in his small, religious Tennessee town. His dad is in prison for a shocking crime, and his mom is struggling to make ends meet. The only things getting Dill through senior year are his guitar and his fellow outcasts, Travis and Lydia. Travis is an oddball who finds comfort from his violent home life in an epic fantasy book series. And Lydia is like no one else: fast-talking, creative and fiercely protective. Dill fears his heart will break when she escapes to a better life elsewhere. What Dill needs now is some bravery to tell Lydia how he feels, to go somewhere with his music – and to face the hardest test of all when tragedy strikes.