AFRO-AMERICAN-STUDY-RESOURCE NEWSLETTER

 

May, 2012

 

Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity

The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)

The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them

 

Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) ...Robin Bernstein (Author)

 

Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority....Andrew J. Jolivette (Editor) ..The first book to explore the role of Obama’s mixed-race identity in his path to the presidency,




The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans....Cedric Johnson (Editor), Chris Russill (Contributor), Chad Lavin (Contributor), Eric Ishiwata (Contributor), Geoffrey Whitehall (Contributor), Passavant Paul (Contributor), Adrienne Dixson (Contributor), John Arena (Contributor) Katrina was not just a hurricane. The death, destruction, and misery wreaked on New Orleans cannot be blamed on nature’s fury alone.

 

* The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present (Oxford Handbooks)***Hardcover] Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor), Claude Steele (Editor), Lawrence D. Bobo (Editor), Michael Dawson (Editor), Gerald Jaynes (Editor), Lisa Crooms-Robinson (Editor), Linda Darling-Hammond (Editor)

 

 

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We would like to reach all Departments and persons interested in African American/ African Studies, History, Music, Literature, and Culture, telling them that -afro-american-study-resource.com/-- is an excellent source of information for Study. Enlightenment, Entertainment and Appreciation of Black Culture in America and the Diaspora.

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a.American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta In 1921, freedom fighter William Pickens described the Mississippi River Valley as the "American Congo .

 

b,,Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American LiberalismPrivate Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between 1920 and 1950, when contradictions among liberal intellectuals affected the rise of U.S. conservatism. ..

 

c,,,,Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History (Oxford Oral History)....Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories.

 

* * Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance ..... Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes..

 

**..The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave.

**. Scholastic Teacher's Friend Notable African Americans Bulletin Board (TF8026).....Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave.

 

**..Big Band Jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 (American Made Music)...Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave.

 

**..Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)Danelle Moon (Author) Daily Life of Women during the Civil Rights Era is appropriate for high school students, lower-level undergraduate student researchers, and general readers alike, portraying the civil rights movement in the 20th century through the eyes and experiences of women.

 

Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities Christopher Dennis (Author) ...is a professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature and cultures at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. In addition to his research on hip-hop, he has also published articles on Afro-Colombian literature, racial iconography relevant to Cartagena's tourist industry, and the discursive representation of black subjects in Colombian colonial literature

** Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Crosscurrents in African American History)Professor Clarence Taylor sheds some much-needed light on the rich intellectual and political tradition that lies in the black religious community.

 

* * Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance ..... Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes.....



****Salvage the Bones: A Novel... Jesmyn Ward (Author)A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else.....


** Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. ClassroomsBooks like Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry stimulate children's imagination, transporting them into the American past and projecting them into an American future. ** Positive African American Plays for Children Book 1Positive African American Plays for Children shows anyone how to stage a successful play any place. For ages 8-13 with easy to read text, wonderful tips, and 5 great plays. **Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New PrefaceDude, You're a Fag tells gripping stories of life in high school, while helping to extend the cutting edge of scholarly theory on gender and sexualities.


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****..Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943 (American Made Music Series)

 

***..African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience....Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity

 

Who's Blue? Rare Chess Recordings of the 60s & 70s
etta James


****Michael Jackson: This Is It (Two-Disc Limited Edition with 3D Backstage Pass version 3) [Blu-ray] ***The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music ****Let Freedom Sing! Music of the Civil Rights Movement

 

Dictionary of African Biography...Emmanuel K. Akyeampong (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor) A major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life. This groundbreaking resource tells the full story of the African continent through the lives of its people.


Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)...Niyi Afolabi (Author) ..Brazil, the most racially diverse Latin American country, is also the most contradictory: for centuries it has maintained fantasy as reality through the myth of racial democracy. Enshrined in that mythology is the masking of exclusionism that strategically displaces and marginalizes Afro-Brazilians from political power.



The wake of blackness: Aesthetic ambivalence and the post-Black Arts era.....by GerShun W Avilez ..I examine the articulation and evocation of a politicized and socially-conscious racial identity that the term "Black" represents during this historical moment. This era's attempt to translate this political enunciation into the realm of expressive culture is designated the "Black Aesthetic";

 

 

Opting Out: Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite by Maya A. Beasley (Nov 1, 2011) ....Maya Beasley...Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as science, engineering, information technology, and finance?



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