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Publisher
Diasporan Savant Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Observe this morbid dance: white liberals in the West and Northeast scapegoat the south and white liberals in Europe and Canada scapegoat the U.S. all to escape having to take any real steps towards accountability or reflection about the ways that they each benefit immensely from white supremacy, and the ways that they perpetuate racism in every aspect of their lives"--Page 1.
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian Revolution. Rather than being about the revolution itself, this collection attempts to show how the events in Haiti served to galvanize African Americans to think about themselves and...
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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures-both white and Black-to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport,...
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Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In this book, the author a renowned literary scholar explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere, have consistently both loved and hated the South. She explains that for these authors the South represents not so much a place or even...
Publisher
ArtMattan Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The invisible color: This documentary investigates the black Cuban exile community in South Florida since the first wave of political refugees in the 1959 revolutionary aftermath to today. It tracks its presence throughout the region and highlights its contribution to Miami's civic culture through testimonies and visual documentation.
Mestizo: In a village on the Venezuelan coast, a place of fishermen and big haciendas, José Ramon, son of a white...
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Most Americans would agree that devoted wives and mothers make families strong and that strong families are the bedrock of society. Yet, throughout this nation's history, black women have managed to become model mothers and wives, but their doing so has not kept them from being mistaken for "welfare queens" and "baby mamas," the stereotypes that most consistently shape U.S. public policy. In this book, Koritha Mitchell shows the evolving connections...
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Epic Ink, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Passed down from elder Dora to initiates, Protectors of Wakanda reveals not only the history and foundation of the unit, but collects the strategy, weapons, and combat training as well as the code of honor and nuances of service required to protect the Black Panther and the nation of Wakanda.
"Learn what it takes to become a member of the Dora Milaje--Wakanda's elite, all-female guard--with this exclusive in-world history and training manual. The...
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