Resultados de búsqueda: African American Studies from The Anthropologists Closet

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with like DJ. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and B&W photo plates. 304 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto―a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot comprehend the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the ghettos of Europe, as well as earlier efforts to understand the problems of the American city. Ghetto is the story of the scholars and activists who tried to achieve that understanding. As Duneier shows, their efforts to wrestle with race and poverty cannot… Leer más

Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Index. 258 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. One year before Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball in 1947, four black players joined the Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams to become the first professional football players of African-American descent in the modern era. While blacks had played on professional teams in the early days of pro football, none had joined a team since 1934. In this book twelve players who began their careers from 1946 to 1955 not only reminisce about the violence they faced on and off the field, the segregated hotels and restaurants, and general hostility that comes with being a trailblazer, but also of white players and coaches who assisted and supported them at various stages of their lives. Among the oral histories presented here are those of such Hall of Famers Bill Willis, Joe Perry, and… Leer más

North Atlantic Books, 2021. Softcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 North Atlantic Books softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Typically, when we reference grief work in relation to anti-Blackness, people think about the grief experienced by those oppressed by white supremacy. But Breeshia Wade encourages those who are not Black to consider how their own unexplored grief amplifies the suffering of Black people. Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss--the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what's already happened to us--as something that is connected to what we fear, what we love, and what we aspire toward. Drawing on stories from her own life as a Black woman and from the people she has midwifed through the end of life, she… Leer más

Scarecrow Press, 2007. Hardcover. New. New casewrapped hardcover. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes chronology, appendices [7], photographs, and bibliography. 448 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded--and thousands of fans witnessed--former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries and for the first time in history, there was a black heavyweight champion of the world. At least 10 people lost their lives because of Johnson's victory and hundreds more were injured due to white retaliation and wild celebrations in the streets. Public screenings received instantaneous protests and hundreds of cities barred the film from being shown. Congress even passed a law making it a federal offense to transport moving pictures of prizefights across… Leer más

Mariner Books, 2013. Paperback. New. Out of Print. A new tightly bound softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Bibliography. Index. 96 pp. The House on Fuller Street is a collection of memories of the people and places in the African American neighborhoods in small town Lexington, Virginia, from the days of emancipation, through segregation, and to the present day. These recollections were initially recorded as oral histories by the Historic Lexington Foundation. This book could have been volumes longer. There is so much more to be said and there are so many stories that deserve to be told-perhaps one day they will. Those that have been selected were mostly recommended by people who live in Green Hill and Diamond Hill neighborhoods. Whether we live in these neighborhoods or not, this is our history, and while the African American community is bonded by its unique history, we all live in the village-together.

BookBaby, 2022. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.25 x 0.9 x 9.25 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 246 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. There is no cavalry coming! We are the iconic leaders we have been waiting for; curators of the change we're seeking to see. America is currently rumbling with a reckoning on race and wonder whether it will finally reconcile its history of systemic oppression of its Black citizens, who have helped build this country. The 2020 murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, in the midst of a global pandemic ignited a wave of racial justice protests and activism analogous to how the murder of Emmett Till in August 1954 sparked the Civil Rights Movement 65 years ago. We are facing the fierce urgency of empathy and the overdue dismantling of long-standing barriers that prevent Black people from realizing their full potential in America. Research from the Opportunity Agenda… Leer más

Lawrence Hill Books, 1999. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography and illustrations. xxxviii, 796 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives." They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and the triumphs and difficulties of life as free men and women. Many of the narratives--such as those of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs--have achieved reputations as masterpieces; but some of the lesser-known narratives are equally brilliant. This unprecedented anthology presents them unabridged, providing each one… Leer más

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover with cloth boards and gilt lettering to spine in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index and B&W photographs. 357 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. On the morning of July 16, 1964, a white police officer in New York City shot and killed a black teenager, James Powell, across the street from the high school where he was attending summer classes. Two nights later, a peaceful demonstration in Central Harlem degenerated into violent protests. During the next week, thousands of rioters looted stores from Brooklyn to Rochester and pelted police with bottles and rocks. In the symbolic and historic heart of black America, the Harlem Riot of 1964, as most called it, highlighted a new dynamic in the racial politics of the nation. The first "long, hot summer" of the Sixties had arrived. In this gripping narrative of a pivotal moment,… Leer más

Bookbaby, 2019. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 0.6 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes footnotes and bibliography. 250 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The writing of these stories began when a sixteen-year-old black girl sitting in a high school class in Trenton N.J raised her hand. Her all black class had been assigned the task of writing a short essay on any personal experience with a white person. She raised her hand to say simply, "I don't know any white people except my teachers." Then other hands throughout the class sprung up as other students expressed the same problem. Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the blockbuster bestseller, Between the World and Me, created the 2015 book as a warning letter to his then fifteen-year-old son. Early in the book, he likewise confessed, "when I was your age, the only people I knew were black." Coates wrote the book as a message of danger to black America. "The essential… Leer más

BookBaby, 2020. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 389 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Unique and riveting, this book provides a preponderance of evidence related to the existence and powerful effects of systemic racism and an alleged Rigged Democratic System in the United States. A retired sociologist/criminologist and research fellow, the author conducted a thorough investigation that focused on the birth of the rigged system; connections between racial biases and systemic racism; and roles of decision-makers. Drilling down, he illuminated often overlooked or unrecognized connections between the rigged system and the emergence and perpetuation of racial disparities or inequality. The author's investigation produced evidence in several areas that will expand the body of knowledge related to past and existing systemic racism. First, he proposed a typology of decision-makers that acknowledged the… Leer más

University of Nebraska Press, 2020. Paperback. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes appendix, index, and B&W photos. 283 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Jackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Willie Wells before entering the Baseball Hall of Fame. Invisible Men is the story of their lives in baseball. The Negro baseball leagues were among the most important Black institutions in segregated America, and the players were known and revered throughout Black America, both north and south. At a time when baseball was America's favorite sport, the Negro League players crossed the color barrier to play memorable games with their white Major League counterparts and paved the way for Latin American ballplayers to become part of baseball's history. The Negro Leaguers helped lay the groundwork for the… Leer más

African American Images, 1987. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Illustrated. 108 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A Black history textbook that goes beyond "Negro" to African history, this book shows the strengths, weaknesses, victories, and mistakes of African Americans. Beautifully illustrated, it includes questions, exercises, vocabulary skill builders, and a bibliography.

The New Press, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (5.7 x 1 x 8.4 inches). Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index and B&W photographs. 240 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Recommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women did not stand on ceremony; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the larger public. Beyond Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, most Americans would be hard-pressed to name other leaders at the community, local, and national levels. In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often… Leer más

Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. New tightly bound hardcover in new DJ. 8vo. (6.13 x 1 x 9.25 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a list of abbreviations, notes and an index. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South's oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible--which has its origins in the eighteenth century--has… Leer más

Wesleyan University Press, 1999. Paperback. New. Fine trade softcover in glossy illustrated wraps. Index. 509pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "A magnificent book about Afro-American music and its impact on western culture. "--Race and Class In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author presents not only an account of African American music from its origins but also a more general consideration of the nature of the music act and of its function in human life. The two streams of discussion occupy alternate chapters so that each casts light on the other. The author offers also an… Leer más

Amistad, 2021. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in like DJ. Tight binding with no bumping of corners. Notes. 8vo. x, 221 pp. Publisher's blurb, "In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom-the nation's highest civilian honor-for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. Her contributions to America's space program were celebrated in a blockbuster and Academy-award nominated movie. In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement, she served as a beacon of light for her family and community alike. Her story is centered around the basic tenets of her life-no one is better than you, education is paramount, and asking questions can break barriers. The memoir captures the many facets of this unique woman: the curious "daddy's girl," pioneering… Leer más

Smithsonian Books, 2016. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes full color photographs. 64 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "This souvenir book showcases some of the most influential and important treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's collections. These include a hymn book owned by Harriet Tubman; ankle shackles used to restrain enslaved people on ships during the Middle Passage; a dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested; a vintage, open-cockpit Tuskegee Airmen trainer plane; Muhammad Ali's headgear; an 1835 Bill of Sale enslaving a young girl named Polly; and Chuck Berry's Cadillac. These objects tell us the full story of African American history, of triumphs and tragedies and highs and lows. This book, like the museum it represents, uses artifacts of African American history and culture as a lens into what it means to be an… Leer más

Lawrence Hill Books, 1999. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, and photos. 664 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit, and the Amos 'n' Andy show presented a distorted picture of African Americans; this book contrasts this image with the authentic underground humor of African Americans found in folktales, race records, and all-black shows and films. After generations of stereotypes, the underground humor finally emerged before the American public with Richard Pryor in the 1970s. But Pryor was not the first popular comic to present authentically black humor. Watkins offers surprising reassessments of such seminal figures as Fetchit, Bert Williams, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx, looking at how they paved the way for contemporary comics such as Whoopi Goldberg,… Leer más

Simon & Schuster, 1998. First. Hardcover. New/New. New first edition hardcover with two-toned paper to boards and with copper lettering to spine and embossed title to front cover. New dust jacket. 8vo. (6.75 x 1.5 x 10 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photo plates. Includes a list of abbreviations, notes, major sources cites and an index. 768 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic struggles as they commanded the national and international stage. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to… Leer más

Riverhead Books, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. A tightly bound new hardcover in a new DJ. First Edition. Full number line. Clean text and free of marks or underlining. 196 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Publisher's blurb, "An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories - reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 -- and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Moving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her… Leer más