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African American Culture and Legal Discourse

Author : R. Schur
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2009-12-07
ISBN 13 : 0230101720
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (11 downloads)

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Download African American Culture and Legal Discourse PDF Format Full Free by R. Schur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the experiences of African Americans under the law and how African American culture has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism. Moving between novels, music, and visual culture, the essays present race as a significant factor within legal discourse. Essays examine rights and sovereignty, violence and the law, and cultural ownership through the lens of African American culture. The volume argues that law must understand the effects of particular decisions and doctrines on African American life and culture and explores the ways in which African American cultural production has been largely centered on a critique of law.

America and the Black Body

Author : Carol E. Henderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 : 0838641326
Pages : 295 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (641 downloads)

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Download America and the Black Body PDF Format Full Free by Carol E. Henderson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America and the Black Body is a timely exploration into the creative, literary, and visual uses of the black body in American print and visual culture. More specifically, this volume contemplates the social development of American identity and the multifarious ways this identity coalesces in the small gestures of preclusion that establish discemable markers of national belonging. Such investigations underscore issues of power and disenfranchisement, of race, class, and gender that mediate the representations of the black male and the black female body in real and imagined ways, as it also reveals the invisible social and political ties that connect white men and women's identities to these racial imaginings." --Book Jacket.

New Essays on the African American Novel

Author : L. King
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
ISBN 13 : 023061275X
Pages : 281 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (612 downloads)

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Download New Essays on the African American Novel PDF Format Full Free by L. King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contributes to scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

Parodies of Ownership

Author : Richard L. Schur
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2009-06-04
ISBN 13 : 0472050605
Pages : 253 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (5 downloads)

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Download Parodies of Ownership PDF Format Full Free by Richard L. Schur and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing interdisciplinary examination of hip hop aesthetics

Shaping Memories

Author : Joanne V. Gabbin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 : 160473471X
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (734 downloads)

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Download Shaping Memories PDF Format Full Free by Joanne V. Gabbin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping Memories offers short essays by notable black women writers on pivotal moments that strongly influenced their careers. With contributions from such figures as novelist Paule Marshall, folklorist Daryl Cumber Dance, poets Mari Evans and Camille Dungy, essayist Ethel Morgan Smith, and scholar Maryemma Graham, the anthology provides a thorough overview of the formal concerns and thematic issues facing contemporary black women writers. Editor Joanne Veal Gabbin offers an introduction that places these writers in the context of American literature in general and African American literature in particular. Each essay includes a headnote summarizing the writer's career and aesthetic development. In their pieces these women negotiate educational institutions and societal restrictions and find their voices despite racism, sexism, and religious chauvinism. They offer strong testimony to the power of words to heal, transform, and renew.

Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

Author : Steven C. Tracy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
ISBN 13 : 0252093429
Pages : 560 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (93 downloads)

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Download Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance PDF Format Full Free by Steven C. Tracy and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance comprehensively explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement that emerged from the crucible of rigid segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers, its participants were invested in political activism and social change as much as literature, art, and aesthetics. The revolutionary writing of this era produced some of the first great accolades for African American literature and set up much of the important writing that came to fruition in the Black Arts Movement. The volume covers a vast collection of subjects, including many important writers such as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lorraine Hansberry as well as cultural products such as black newspapers, music, and theater. The book includes individual entries by experts on each subject; a discography and filmography that highlight important writers, musicians, films, and cultural presentations; and an introduction that relates the Harlem Renaissance, the white Chicago Renaissance, the black Chicago Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement. Contributors are Robert Butler, Robert H. Cataliotti, Maryemma Graham, James C. Hall, James L. Hill, Michael Hill, Lovalerie King, Lawrence Jackson, Angelene Jamison-Hall, Keith Leonard, Lisbeth Lipari, Bill V. Mullen, Patrick Naick, William R. Nash, Charlene Regester, Kimberly Ruffin, Elizabeth Schultz, Joyce Hope Scott, James Smethurst, Kimberly M. Stanley, Kathryn Waddell Takara, Steven C. Tracy, Zoe Trodd, Alan Wald, Jamal Eric Watson, Donyel Hobbs Williams, Stephen Caldwell Wright, and Richard Yarborough.

Perspectives on Percival Everett

Author : Keith B. Mitchell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 13 : 161703682X
Pages : 187 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (36 downloads)

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Download Perspectives on Percival Everett PDF Format Full Free by Keith B. Mitchell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percival Everett writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's book, his work has not garnered the critical attention that it deserves. Perhaps one of the most vexing problems black and white scholars have had in trying to situate Everett's work is that they have found it difficult to "place" him and his work within a prescribed African American literary tradition. Because he happens to be African American, critics have expectations of so-called "authentic" African American fiction; however, his work often thwarts these expectations. In Perspectives on Percival Everett, scholars engage all of his creative production. On the one hand, Everett is an African American novelist. On the other hand, he pursues subject matters that seemingly have little to do with African American culture. The operative word here is "seemingly"; for as these essays demonstrate, Everett's works falls well within as well as outside of what most critics would deem the African American literary tradition. These essays examine issues of identity, authenticity, and semiotics, in addition to postmodernism and African American and American literary traditions--issues essential to understanding his aesthetic and political concerns.

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

Author : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
ISBN 13 : 1107013135
Pages : 369 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (13 downloads)

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Download The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists PDF Format Full Free by Timothy Parrish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.

The Color of Creatorship

Author : Anjali Vats
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-29
ISBN 13 : 1503610969
Pages : 344 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (61 downloads)

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Download The Color of Creatorship PDF Format Full Free by Anjali Vats and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Color of Creatorship examines how copyright, trademark, and patent discourses work together to form American ideals around race, citizenship, and property. Working through key moments in intellectual property history since 1790, Anjali Vats reveals that even as they have seemingly evolved, American understandings of who is a creator and who is an infringer have remained remarkably racially conservative and consistent over time. Vats examines archival, legal, political, and popular culture texts to demonstrate how intellectual properties developed alongside definitions of the "good citizen," "bad citizen," and intellectual labor in racialized ways. Offering readers a theory of critical race intellectual property, Vats historicizes the figure of the citizen-creator, the white male maker who was incorporated into the national ideology as a key contributor to the nation's moral and economic development. She also traces the emergence of racial panics around infringement, arguing that the post-racial creator exists in opposition to the figure of the hyper-racial infringer, a national enemy who is the opposite of the hardworking, innovative American creator. The Color of Creatorship contributes to a rapidly-developing conversation in critical race intellectual property. Vats argues that once anti-racist activists grapple with the underlying racial structures of intellectual property law, they can better advocate for strategies that resist the underlying drivers of racially disparate copyright, patent, and trademark policy.

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays

Author : Lovalerie King
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2006-10-16
ISBN 13 : 0230601383
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (61 downloads)

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Download James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays PDF Format Full Free by Lovalerie King and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience.

Teaching Tainted Lit

Author : Janet G. Casey
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2015-11-15
ISBN 13 : 1609383737
Pages : 247 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (383 downloads)

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Download Teaching Tainted Lit PDF Format Full Free by Janet G. Casey and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain. If the academy has historically ignored, or even sneered at, the popular, then its new accommodation within the framework of college English is noteworthy: surely the popular introduces both pleasures and problems that did not exist when faculty exclusively taught literature from an established “high” canon. How, then, does the assumption that the popular matters affect teaching strategies, classroom climates, and both personal and institutional notions about what it means to study literature? The essays in this collection presume that the popular is here to stay and that its instructive implications are not merely noteworthy, but richly nuanced and deeply compelling. They address a broad variety of issues concerning canonicity, literature, genre, and the classroom, as its contributors teach everything from Stephen King and Lady Gaga to nineteenth-century dime novels and the 1852 best-seller Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is no secret that teaching popular texts fuels controversies about the value of cultural studies, the alleged relaxation of aesthetic standards, and the possible “dumbing down” of Americans. By implicitly and explicitly addressing such contentious issues, these essays invite a broader conversation about the place of the popular not only in higher education but in the reading lives of all Americans.

The Organic Globalizer

Author : Christopher Malone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-11-20
ISBN 13 : 1628920084
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (92 downloads)

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Download The Organic Globalizer PDF Format Full Free by Christopher Malone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage in political activism and participation. Collectively, the essays assert hip hop's importance as an “organic globalizer:” no matter its pervasiveness or reach around the world, hip-hop ultimately remains a grassroots phenomenon that is born of the community from which it permeates. Hip hop, then, holds promise through three separate but related avenues: (1) through cultural awareness and identification/recognition of voices of marginalized communities through music and art; (2) through social creation and the institutionalization of independent alternative institutions and non-profit organizations in civil society geared toward social and economic justice; and (3) through political activism and participation in which demands are articulated and made on the state. With editorial bridges between chapters and an emphasis on interdisciplinary and diverse perspectives, The Organic Globalizer is the natural scholarly evolution in the conversation about hip-hop and politics.

Are You Entertained?

Author : Simone C. Drake
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-28
ISBN 13 : 1478009004
Pages : 335 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (9 downloads)

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Download Are You Entertained? PDF Format Full Free by Simone C. Drake and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the internet and the availability of social media and digital downloads have expanded the creation, distribution, and consumption of Black cultural production as never before. At the same time, a new generation of Black public intellectuals who speak to the relationship between race, politics, and popular culture has come into national prominence. The contributors to Are You Entertained? address these trends to consider what culture and blackness mean in the twenty-first century's digital consumer economy. In this collection of essays, interviews, visual art, and an artist statement the contributors examine a range of topics and issues, from music, white consumerism, cartoons, and the rise of Black Twitter to the NBA's dress code, dance, and Moonlight. Analyzing the myriad ways in which people perform, avow, politicize, own, and love blackness, this volume charts the shifting debates in Black popular culture scholarship over the past quarter century while offering new avenues for future scholarship. Contributors. Takiyah Nur Amin, Patricia Hill Collins, Kelly Jo Fulkerson-Dikuua, Simone C. Drake, Dwan K. Henderson, Imani Kai Johnson, Ralina L. Joseph, David J. Leonard, Emily J. Lordi, Nina Angela Mercer, Mark Anthony Neal, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum, Kinohi Nishikawa, Eric Darnell Pritchard, Richard Schur, Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Vincent Stephens, Lisa B. Thompson, Sheneese Thompson

Choreographing Copyright

Author : Anthea Kraut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-02
ISBN 13 : 0190277300
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (277 downloads)

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Download Choreographing Copyright PDF Format Full Free by Anthea Kraut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.S. dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their raced and gendered politics, showing how dancers have embraced intellectual property rights as a means to both consolidate and contest racial and gendered power. A number of the artists featured in the book are well-known in the history of American dance, including Loie Fuller, Hanya Holm, and Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, and George Balanchine. But the book also uncovers a host of marginalized figures--from the South Asian dancer Mohammed Ismail, to the African American pantomimist Johnny Hudgins, to the African American blues singer Alberta Hunter, to the white burlesque dancer Faith Dane--who were equally interested in positioning themselves as subjects rather than objects of property. Drawing on critical race and feminist theories and on cultural studies of copyright, Choreographing Copyright offers fresh insight into the raced and gendered hierarchies that govern the theatrical marketplace, white women's historically contingent relationship to property rights, legacies of ownership of black bodies and appropriation of non-white labor, and the tension between dance's ephemerality and its reproducibility.

African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs [3 volumes]

Author : Omari L. Dyson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2020-07-31
ISBN 13 : 1440862443
Pages : 940 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (862 downloads)

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Download African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs [3 volumes] PDF Format Full Free by Omari L. Dyson and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering everything from sports to art, religion, music, and entrepreneurship, this book documents the vast array of African American cultural expressions and discusses their impact on the culture of the United States. According to the latest census data, less than 13 percent of the U.S. population identifies as African American; African Americans are still very much a minority group. Yet African American cultural expression and strong influences from African American culture are common across mainstream American culture—in music, the arts, and entertainment; in education and religion; in sports; and in politics and business. African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Customs covers virtually every aspect of African American cultural expression, addressing subject matter that ranges from how African culture was preserved during slavery hundreds of years ago to the richness and complexity of African American culture in the post-Obama era. The most comprehensive reference work on African American culture to date, the book covers topics such as black contributions to literature and the arts, music and entertainment, religion, and professional sports. It also provides coverage of less-commonly addressed subjects, such as African American fashion practices and beauty culture, the development of jazz music across different eras, and African American business. • Identifies influential aspects of African American culture through entries on topics such as African Americans in sports, in musical genres such as blues, gospel, hip hop, and jazz, and in religions such as Christianity, Islam, and Yoruba • Makes clear the numerous ways African Americans have produced, maintained, and evolved their culture in the United States • Enables readers to truly comprehend what "diversity" is by gaining substantive knowledge of how a particular group of persecuted people has learned to thrive artistically and culturally in the United States

Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman

Author : Matthew Calihman
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2018-05-01
ISBN 13 : 1603293566
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (293 downloads)

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Download Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman PDF Format Full Free by Matthew Calihman and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical information, critical and literary backgrounds, and the play's early production history. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," address viewing and staging Dutchman theatrically in class. They help instructors ground the play artistically in the black arts movement, the beat generation, the theater of the absurd, pop music, and the blues. Background on civil rights, black power movements, the history of slavery, and Jim Crow laws helps contextualize the play politically and historically.

Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction

Author : Tunde Adeleke
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2019-12-30
ISBN 13 : 1496826671
Pages : 262 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (826 downloads)

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Download Martin R. Delany's Civil War and Reconstruction PDF Format Full Free by Tunde Adeleke and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militant? Uncompromising? Pragmatic? Utilitarian? Accommodating? Conservative? To engage Martin Robison Delany (1812–1885) is to wrestle with almost all the complexities and paradoxes of nineteenth-century black leadership in one public intellectual. After his previous book on Delany, senior historian Tunde Adeleke has compiled here letters, speeches, contemporary nineteenth-century newspaper articles, and reports written by and about Delany. These vital primary sources cover his Civil War and Reconstruction career in South Carolina and include key critical reactions to Delany’s ideas and writings from his contemporaries. There are over ninety documents, the vast majority not previously published. Delany remains the subject of conflicting and confusing interpretations. Adeleke indicates that Delany actually manifested complex dispositions. He presaged manifestations of the strands of both protest and compromise that would define the early twentieth-century world of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. An African American abolitionist and journalist, Delany advocated for black nationalism, one of the first to do so. After working alongside Frederick Douglass to publish the North Star in the 1840s, Delany looked into establishing a settlement in West Africa. Yet during the Civil War, he served as the first African American field grade officer in the Union Army. Then he labored for the Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina. Delany even ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor as a Republican and later defected to the Democrats. These documents will prove an indispensable call and response to an unparalleled intellectual life.