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Cutting A Figure : Fashioning Black Portraiture
In Search Of The Black Fantastic : Politics And Popular Culture In The Post-Civil Rights Era

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Richard ItonPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2008Description
Prior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture emerged as a tool to forge community and effect political change. Ranging from theater to film, and comedy to literature and contemporary music, In Search of the Black Fantastic is an engaging and sophisticated examination of how black popular culture has challenged our understandings of the aesthetic and its relationship to politics. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.625 .I76 2008 AVAILABLE
Prisons, Race, And Masculinity In Twentieth-century U.S. Literature And Film

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Peter CasterPublication Details
BookOhio State University Press2008Links
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In Prisons, Race, and Masculinity, Peter Caster demonstrates the centrality of imprisonment in American culture, illustrating how incarceration, an institution inseparable from race, has shaped and continues to shape U.S. history and literature in the starkest expression of what W. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS228.I66 C37 2008 AVAILABLE
Black Sexual Politics : African Americans, Gender, And The New Racism

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Patricia Hill CollinsPublication Details
BookRoutledge2004Links
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Caricatures of Black sexuality saturate American popular culture in bootylicious rap videos and paternity tests on the Jerry Springer show. In Black Sexual Politics, one of America’s most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.86 .H668 2004 AVAILABLE
A Freedom Bought With Blood : African American War Literature From The Civil War To World War II

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by Jennifer C. JamesPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press2007Links
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In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 J393 2007 AVAILABLE
Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha : Queer Black Marxism And The Harlem Renaissance

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Gary Edward HolcombPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Florida2007Links
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[Among the most notable contributions to black modernist study, Holcomb's scholarship is the first to assess the consequence of McKay's landmark Romance in Marseille, a text that is, despite its absence from broad public access for nearly 80 years, conceivably the most significant early black diaspora text.] Finally, he examines McKay’s extensive FBI file and his late-1930s autobiography, A Long Way from Home, in which McKay disguises his past as a means of eluding his harassers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3525.A24785 Z73 2007 AVAILABLE
Race Or Ethnicity? : On Black And Latino Identity

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edited by Jorge J.E. GraciaPublication Details
BookCornell University Press2007Links
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“This book is interesting, timely, and worthwhile because it addresses contemporary issues regarding highly contestable concepts that are usually taken for granted in ordinary as well as in professional conversations about race and ethnicity.”–Vicente Medina, Seton Hall University, author of Social Contract Theories “The great virtue of this book is its bringing together of the debates on black and Latino identity and its challenge to the terms in which they have been traditionally conceived. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.625 .R32 2007 AVAILABLE
Portraits Of The New Negro Woman : Visual And Literary Culture In The Harlem Renaissance

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Cherene Sherrard- JohnsonPublication Details
BookRutgers University Press2007Links
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Of all the images to arise from the Harlem Renaissance, the most thought-provoking were those of the mulatta. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson traces the origins and popularization of these new representations in the art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance and how they became an ambiguous symbol of racial uplift constraining African American womanhood in the early twentieth century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 S49 2007 AVAILABLE
Art In Crisis : W.E.B. Du Bois And The Struggle For African American Identity And Memory

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Amy Helene KirschkePublication Details
BookIndiana University Press2007Links
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Du Bois and the Art of The Crisis Magazine is an exploration of how W. [U]ses Crisis art skillfully to show how Du Bois used the ugly and the beautiful to empower African Americans. “Art in Crisis would be an enlightening secondary text for undergraduate or graduate courses in visual communication, the dissident press, and journalism history.” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N6538.N5 K57 2007 AVAILABLE
From Black Power To Hip Hop : Racism, Nationalism, And Feminism

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Patricia Hill CollinsPublication Details
BookTemple University Press2006Description
In this incisive and stimulating book, renowned social theorist Patricia Hill Collins investigates how nationalism has operated and re-emerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and offers an interpretation of how black nationalism works today in the wake of changing black youth identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.625 .C646 2006 AVAILABLE
Poetry, Desire, And Fantasy In The Harlem Renaissance

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by Raphael CompronePublication Details
BookUniversity Press of America2006Description
This groundbreaking work uses psychoanalysis to reinvigorate Harlem Renaissance studies. In detailed, focused sections, Poetry, Desire, and Fantasy in the Harlem Renaissance explores issues of white subjectivity in Hughes and Hurston; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 C58 2006 AVAILABLE
Black Empire : The Masculine Global Imaginary Of Caribbean Intellectuals In The United States, 1914-1962

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Michelle Ann StephensPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2005Links
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In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of ?transnational blackness? James, Stephens shows how these thinkers developed ideas of a worldwide racial movement and federated global black political community that transcended the boundaries of nation-states. Stephens argues that the global black political consciousness she identifies was constituted by both radical and reactionary impulses. Drawing together insights from American, African American, Caribbean, and gender studies, Black Empire is a major contribution to ongoing conversations about nation and diaspora. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.6 .S745 2005 AVAILABLE
Malcolm X

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Warner Brothers Pictures ; Warner Bros. presents in association with Largo International N.V. ; a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; a Marvin Worth production ; a Spike Lee Joint ; screenplay by Arnold Perl and Spike Lee ; produced by Marvin Worth and Spike Lee ; directed by Spike LeePublication Details
VideoWidescreen versionWarner Home Video2000Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS MEDIA: VIDEO (MAIN) BP223.Z8 L571 2000 DUE 11-19-09
Neither Enemies Nor Friends : Latinos, Blacks, Afro- Latinos

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edited by Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne ObolerPublication Details
Book1st edPalgrave Macmillan2005Links
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In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos’ relations with African Americans in the U.S. Contributors address issues such as: Who are the Afro-Latin Americans? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E29.A1 N45 2005 AVAILABLE
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