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The Works of James McCune Smith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Works of James McCune Smith

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings together the writings of James McCune Smith, one of the foremost intellectuals in antebellum America. The Selected Writings of James McCune Smith is one of the first anthologies featuring the works of this illustrious scholar. Perhaps best known for his introduction to Fredrick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom, his influence is still found in a number of aspects of modern society and social interactions. And he was considered by many to be a prophet of the twenty-first century. One of the earliest advocates of the use of "black" instead of "colored," McCune Smith treated racial identities as social constructions, arguing that American literature, music, and dance would be shaped and defined by blacks. Organized chronologically, the collection covers over 40 years of writing, including speeches, letters, and essays, and begins with McCune Smith's first speech as an 11-year old boy to the Marquis de Lafayette. Providing historical context for McCune Smith's current cultural relevance, this book showcases writings on black education and self-help, citizenship, and the fight against racism.

The Glasgow Yorker
  • Language: en

The Glasgow Yorker

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The Glasgow Yorker is a nonfictional book, based on the late Dr. James McCune Smith. Dr. Smith was the first African-American male doctor in the United States of America; he also was the first Black citizen for many of other things too. This novel will contain the factual contents of the events taken place in his life from birth to death. It also contains information and images of the places, locations, colleges, and other professional activities associated with Dr. Smith."--Amazon.com

A Memorial Discourse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

A Memorial Discourse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1865
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Black Hearts of Men
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

The Black Hearts of Men

At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown...

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 38

A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1841
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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An American Health Dilemma
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 617

An American Health Dilemma

At times mirroring and at times shockingly disparate to the rise of traditional white American medicine, the history of African-American health care is a story of traditional healers; root doctors; granny midwives; underappreciated and overworked African-American physicians; scrupulous and unscrupulous white doctors and scientists; governmental support and neglect; epidemics; and poverty. Virtually every part of this story revolves around race. More than 50 years after the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 classic about race relations in the USA, An American Health Dilemma presents a comprehensive and groundbreaking history and social analysis of race, race relations a...

A Hideous Monster of the Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

A Hideous Monster of the Mind

The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. A Hideous Monster of the Mind reveals that ideas on race crossed racial boundaries in a process that produced not only well-known theories of biological racism but also countertheories that were early expressions of cultural relativism, cultural pluralism, and latter-day Afrocentrism. From 1800 to 1830 in particular, race took on a new reality as America...

Heads of the Colored People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Heads of the Colored People

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-09
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  • Publisher: Random House

A satirical and daring collection of short stories exploring black life from one of America's rising stars. 'Makes you shake your head in delight... Her stories feel simultaneously like the poke of a stick and a comforting balm; a smack followed by a kiss. I’m so into it' Bim Adewunmi, Guardian Heads of the Colored People interrogates our supposedly post-racial era to wicked and devastating effect, exposing the violence that threatens black Americans, no matter their apparent success. A teenager is insidiously bullied as her YouTube following soars; an assistant professor finds himself losing a subtle war against his office mate; a nurse is worn down by the demand for her skills as a funeral singer. And across a series of stories, a young woman grows up, negotiating and renegotiating her identity. This electric collection of short stories marks the arrival of a remarkable writer and an urgent new voice. *Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2019* *Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2019*

The Practice of Citizenship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

The Practice of Citizenship

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitu...