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Women and Museums
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Women and Museums

Women and Museums is a comprehensive directory of museums for, by, and about women, providing information about interpretive themes, historical significance of collections, and cultural and social relevance to women, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides and accessible format provide quick and easy ways of finding information on America's women-related museums. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Black Cowboys in the American West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Black Cowboys in the American West

Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas and Mexico. Most who joined the long trail drives were men, but black women also rode and worked on western ranches and farms. The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century. Including both classic, previously published arti...

Ebony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Ebony

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2003-02
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  • Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

The Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

The Crisis

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1995-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

Making Representations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Making Representations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Drawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations explores the ways in which museums and anthropologists are responding to pressures in the field by developing new policies and practices, and forging new relationships with communities. Simpson examines the increasing number of museums and cultural centres being established by indigenous and immigrant communities as they take control of the interpretive process and challenge the traditional role of the museum. Museum studies students and museum professionals will all find this a stimulating and valuable read.

Black Frontiers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

Black Frontiers

Black Frontiers chronicles the life and times of black men and women who settled the West from 1865 to the early 1900s. In this striking book, you'll meet many of these brave individuals face-to-face, through rare vintage photographs and a fascinating account of their real-life history.

Notable Black American Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 842

Notable Black American Women

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: VNR AG

Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence.

Ebony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Ebony

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1991-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Museums and Historic Sites of the American West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 848

Museums and Historic Sites of the American West

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-03-30
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

Locations including missions, trading posts, trails, landmarks, military forts, battlefields, railroads, ghost towns, and early Native American villages are featured here, along with details of what exhibits and artifacts are on view.".

The Devil's Backbone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

The Devil's Backbone

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Frog Books

The only black Pro-Rodeo Hall of Famer has just been killed with a branding iron. When a simple clue leads C.J. up to the barren mountain peaks of Devil's Backbone, he ends up on a lethal trail of diamonds, greed, jealousy, and murder.