Matt - African-American Studies 1

Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental Design at Tem……続きを見る

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian the……続きを見る

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference Where past and performance convergeーscholarship that moves the stage forward. Theatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of ……続きを見る

Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Island’s north shore. Thr……続きを見る

**"No book from this past year better explains American popular music than professor Matthew Morrison’s Blacksound."ーA Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2024 A new concept for understanding the hist……続きを見る

This monograph identifies and investigates the ‘other-conscious’ ethics in black avant-garde poetry since the 1980s. Drawing on a long tradition in the African Diaspora of ethical writings that put ……続きを見る

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who particip……続きを見る

"O where are the sympathies of Christians for the slave and where are their exertions for their liberation? . . . It seems as if the church were asleep." David Ingraham, 1839 In 2015, the historian ……続きを見る

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Ch……続きを見る

A thought-provoking sociological and theoretical examination of race relations in the United States. Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and syst……続きを見る

From a distance, Matthieu Chapman’s life and accomplishments serve as an example of racial progress in America: the first in his family to go to college, he earns two master’s degrees and a doctorat……続きを見る

First African Baptist Church has served the Richmond community since 1780, proving to be a pillar of strength for African Americans in the former Confederate capital. The First African Baptist Churc……続きを見る

This book is a work of political archaeology. It focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania; their stories provide a micro and macro view of economic,……続きを見る

We are capable of giving ourselves 100% within a culture of conformity to others. Our attention to who we truly are can help to separate truth from fiction and allow for us to walk together with oth……続きを見る

A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays h……続きを見る

A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic This grou……続きを見る

Giving close consideration to previously neglected debates, Matthew Mason challenges the common contention that slavery held little political significance in America until the Missouri Crisis of 181……続きを見る

For 4 million slaves, emancipation was a liberation and resurrection story of biblical proportion, both the clearest example of God’s intervention in human history and a sign of the end of days. In ……続きを見る

The subject of lynching has spawned a vast body of important research, but this research suffers from important blind spots and disjunctures. By broadening the scope of research problem formulation,……続きを見る

A free region deeply influenced by southern mores, the Lower Middle West represented a true cultural and political median in Civil War–era America. Here grew a Unionism steeped in the mythology of t……続きを見る

Explores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Gre……続きを見る

Dust storms. Flooding. The fear of nuclear fallout. While literary critics associate authors of the 1930s and ’40s with leftist political and economic thought, they often ignore concern in the perio……続きを見る

A deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six……続きを見る

Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”ーthe Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their acade……続きを見る

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and ear……続きを見る

Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police ……続きを見る

Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Moss……続きを見る

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as described by Matthew Holden in his introduction, ……続きを見る

While recruitment efforts toward men of color have increased at many colleges and universities, their retention and graduation rates still lag behind those of their white peers. Men of color, partic……続きを見る

Bruce A. Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles have gathered over thirty years of scholarshipーarticles, book excerpts, and new, original essaysーto offer for the first time an overview of the history of Afr……続きを見る