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Black girls and adolescents : facing the challenges
\"This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about Black girls to show how America has failed them--and what can be done to make their lives better\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Sovereignty of Quiet
African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. InThe Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person's desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture.The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander's reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks'sMaud Martha, James Baldwin'sThe Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison'sSulato move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.
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The psychology of Black boys and adolescents
\"Drawing on personal insights and research-based knowledge, this important work facilitates understanding of the psychological struggles of young African American males and offers ameliorative strategies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Practice of Citizenship
In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does.In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 \"Afric-American Picture Gallery\" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass.Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harper's parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, the book demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.
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Bounds of Blackness
Bounds of Blackness explores
the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement
with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a
central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of
Black glory, pride, and civilization, while contemporary Sudan,
often categorized as part of \"Arab Africa\" rather than \"Black
Africa,\" is often sidelined and overlooked. In this pathbreaking
book, Christopher Tounsel unpacks the vacillating approaches of
Black Americans to the Sudanese state and its multiethnic populace
through periods defined by colonialism, postcolonial civil wars,
genocide in Darfur, and South Sudanese independence. By exploring
the work of African American intellectuals, diplomats,
organizations, and media outlets, Tounsel shows how this
transnational relationship reflects the robust yet capricious terms
of racial consciousness in the African Diaspora.
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The crunk feminist collection
\"For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted-relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events. To address this void, they started a blog. Now with an annual readership of nearly one million, their posts foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal identities-as black women; as sisters, daughters, and lovers; and as television watchers, sports fans, and music lovers-are never far from the discussion at hand. These essays explore \"Sex and Power in the Black Church,\" discuss how \"Clair Huxtable is Dead,\" list \"Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become a Better Ally to Women in Hip Hop,\" and dwell on \"Dating with a Doctorate (She Got a Big Ego?).\" Self-described as \"critical homegirls,\" the authors tackle life stuck between loving hip hop and ratchet culture while hating patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism. Brittney Cooper is an assistant professor at Rutgers University. In addition to a weekly column in Salon.com, her words have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cosmo.com, and many others. In 2013 and 2014, she was named to the Root.com's Root 100, an annual list of Top Black Influencers. Susana M. Morris received her Ph.D. from Emory University and is currently an associate professor of English at Auburn University. Robin M. Boylorn is assistant professor at the University of Alabama. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience (Peter Lang, 2013)\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Teaching Black History to White People
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five
years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in
the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well
as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an
understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone.
With Teaching Black History to White People , which is
\"part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to
guide,\" Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the
Black experience in America. He poses provocative questions, such
as \"Why is the teaching of Black history so controversial?\" and
\"What came first: slavery or racism?\" These questions don't have
easy answers, and Moore insists that embracing discomfort is
necessary for engaging in open and honest conversations about race.
Moore includes a syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that
white people can take to move beyond performative justice and
toward racial reparations, healing, and reconciliation.
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The shape of the river : long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions
First published in 1998, William Bowen and Derek Bok's The Shape of the River became an immediate landmark in the debate over affirmative action in America. It grounded a contentious subject in concrete data at a time when arguments surrounding it were characterized more by emotion than evidence--and it made a forceful case that race-conscious admissions were successfully helping to promote equal opportunity. Today, the issue of affirmative action remains unsettled. Much has changed, but The Shape of the River continues to present the most compelling data available about the effects of affirmative action. Now with a new foreword by Nicholas Lemann and an afterword by Derek Bok, The Shape of the River is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand race-conscious admissions in higher education.
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Torchbearers of Democracy
On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, \"The world must be made safe for democracy.\" For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought and labored in the global conflict, these words carried life or death meaning. Relating stories bridging the war and postwar years, spanning the streets of Chicago and the streets of Harlem, from the battlefields of the American South to the battlefields of the Western Front, Chad L. Williams reveals the central role of African American soldiers in World War I and how they, along with race activists and ordinary citizens alike, committed to fighting for democracy at home and beyond.Using a diverse range of sources, Williams connects the history of African American soldiers and veterans to issues such as the obligations of citizenship, combat and labor, diaspora and internationalism, homecoming and racial violence, \"New Negro\" militancy, and African American historical memories of the war. Democracy may have been distant from the everyday lives of African Americans at the dawn of the war, but it nevertheless remained a powerful ideal that sparked the hopes of black people throughout the country for societal change.Torchbearers of Democracyreclaims the legacy of black soldiers and establishes the World War I era as a defining moment in the history of African Americans and peoples of African descent more broadly.
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