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  • Black for a Day

    White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

    par Alisha Gaines ...
    In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously “became” black as well, traveling the American South in search of a certain kind of racial understanding. Contemporary history is littered with the surprisingly complex stories of white people passing as black, and here Alisha Gaines constructs a ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Neo-Passing

    Performing Identity after Jim Crow

    African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies, whites try to pass as black. Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young present essays that explore practices, performances, and texts of neo ... En savoir plus

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl

    par Harriet Jacobs ...
    I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... En savoir plus

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  • Every Tongue Got to Confess

    Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States

    A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”—New York TimesEvery Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.The bittersweet and often hilarious taleswhich range from longer ... En savoir plus

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America—and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of African America and a beacon in the fight for civil rights. Believing that one can know the “soul” of a race by knowing the souls of individuals, W. E. B. Du Bois combines history and stirring autobiography to reflect ... En savoir plus

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  • The Harris Men

    par RM Johnson ...
    RM Johnson's extraordinary novel is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death—and the three sons he abandoned so many years before.“Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer.” Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his ... En savoir plus

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  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave

    With an Introductory Chapter by William H. Crogman

    First published in 1845, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave” is an 1845 autobiographical treatise on abolition by Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), an American escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. A leading figure in the abolitionist movement, he fought for the end of slavery until the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation and continued to ... En savoir plus

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    par Andrew Warnes ...
    Collections series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... En savoir plus

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  • The Red Record

    Enriched edition. Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

    In "The Red Record," Ida B. Wells-Barnett presents a groundbreaking exposé illuminating the rampant injustices of lynching in America at the turn of the 20th century. This meticulously researched work intertwines persuasive rhetoric with poignant anecdotes, demonstrating the pervasive racism that plagued the United States post-Emancipation. Through a combination of statistical analysis and ... En savoir plus

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  • The White Clover Project

    Phase 1

    par James Alexander ...
    Collections Livre 1 - White Clover
    What if there was an operation that could give you the body you desire, increase your life span tenfold, and be utilized to revive recently passed loved ones? Interested. Well, consider this. No one has ever attempted this kind of operation on a human. And, so far, animal testing has not been successful. Someone will trust a surgeon to perform this operation for them, but at what cost…?Jessamy, a ... En savoir plus

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  • An American Insurrection

    The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962

    par William Doyle ...
    In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil War,” a crisis that on September 30, 1962, exploded into a ... En savoir plus

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  • Belabored Professions

    Narratives of African American Working Womanhood

    According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as “doers of the word.” In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, ... En savoir plus

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