Télécharger le livre :  The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2012-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2010-08-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Trials of Phillis Wheatley
In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  America Behind The Color Line
The readable companion, in the oral-history tradition of Studs Terkel, to the PBS documentary series, peeking behind the veil "that still, far too often, separates black America from white." Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Gates delivers a...

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2007-10-15
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Télécharger le livre :  African American Lives
African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthyAfrican Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volumeAfrican American National Biography, illuminate...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2004-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1999-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Loose Canons
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Slave's Narrative
These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1991-02-21
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