
Black Madonna: A Womanist Look at Mary of Nazareth
Book
The figure of the Virgin Mary comes loaded with baggage and preconceptions. She is usually depicted...
Religion Gender studies

Free Jazz/Black Power
Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli and Gregory Pierrot
Book
For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free...

Fences (2016)
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In 1950s Pittsburgh, a working-class African-American father named Troy Maxson tries to raise his...

Native Son (2019)
Movie
A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power...

When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide: Black Athletes at Byu and Beyond
Book
When Race, Religion, and Sport Collide tells the story of Brandon Davies' dismissal from Brigham...

Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
Book
Prior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American...
Art social issues politics
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Book
The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the...

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Still Here (2020)
Movie
A New York journalist who gets assigned the story of a missing African-American young girl, risks...

African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
Book
Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for...