Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
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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
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The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the...
African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
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Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Ivory Coast was touted as an African miracle, a poster child for...
Monologues for Actors of Color: Men
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Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta...
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
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Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But...
History social sciences
The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective
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The Rastafari Movement: A North American and Caribbean Perspective provides a historical and...
Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experience
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In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the...
Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
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In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American...
Eugene Bullard, Black Expatriate in Jazz-age Paris
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This is the complete biography of the first African American fighter pilot, Georgia native Eugene J....
Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora
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One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine...