| Author | : Dorothea Lasky |
| Publisher | : Wave Books |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2010-04-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1933517433 |
Infused with dark, tumultuous, and urgent feeling--emotion recollected not in tranquility, but in intensity.
Black Life
| Author | : Rinaldo Walcott |
| Publisher | : Semaphore |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2019-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781927886212 |
Black Life seeks to place the activist work of Black Lives Matter Toronto in a broader context of Black Canadian activist struggles and Black struggles globally. In this work BLM's intervention into the Toronto political realm marks a dis/continuous Black Canadian activism that erupts and wanes in response to local, national and international Black protest.
Black Life on the Mississippi
| Author | : Thomas C. Buchanan |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2006-03-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807876569 |
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from the perspective of the pilothouse, Thomas C. Buchanan paints a more complete picture of the Mississippi, documenting the rich variety of experiences among slaves and free blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation. Buchanan explores the creative efforts of steamboat workers to link riverside African American communities in the North and South. The networks African Americans created allowed them to keep in touch with family members, help slaves escape, transfer stolen goods, and provide forms of income that were important to the survival of their communities. The author also details the struggles that took place within the steamboat work culture. Although the realities of white supremacy were still potent on the river, Buchanan shows how slaves, free blacks, and postemancipation freedpeople fought for better wages and treatment. By exploring the complex relationship between slavery and freedom, Buchanan sheds new light on the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture and economy up and down America's greatest river.
Black Age
| Author | : Habiba Ibrahim |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2021-09-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1479810886 |
"Black Age argues that age tracks the struggle between the abuses of black exclusion from western humanism, and the reclamation of non-normative black life"--
Black Campus Life
| Author | : Antar A. Tichavakunda |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 2021-12-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1438485921 |
An in-depth ethnography of Black engineering students at a historically White institution, Black Campus Life examines the intersection of two crises, up close: the limited number of college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and the state of race relations in higher education. Antar Tichavakunda takes readers across campus, from study groups to parties and beyond as these students work hard, have fun, skip class, fundraise, and, at times, find themselves in tense racialized encounters. By consistently centering their perspectives and demonstrating how different campus communities, or social worlds, shape their experiences, Tichavakunda challenges assumptions about not only Black STEM majors but also Black students and the “racial climate” on college campuses more generally. Most fundamentally, Black Campus Life argues that Black collegians are more than the racism they endure. By studying and appreciating the everyday richness and complexity of their experiences, we all—faculty, administrators, parents, policymakers, and the broader public—might learn how to better support them. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org, and access the book online through the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7009
Black Life in Corporate America
| Author | : George Davis |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780385147026 |
Profiles of black corporate executives and managers; the challenges and undercurrents of racial tension.
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life
| Author | : Christopher Freeburg |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2017-09-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0813940338 |
Christopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences, such as lynching or other racial violence, have completely robbed victims of their personhood, Freeburg rethinks what it means to be a person in the works of black artists. This book advances the idea that individual persons always retain the ability to withhold, express, or change their ideas, and this concept has profound implications for long-held assumptions about the relationship between black interior life and black collective political interests. Examining an array of seminal black texts—from Ida B. Wells’s antilynching pamphlets to works by Richard Wright, Nina Simone, and Toni Morrison—Freeburg demonstrates that the personhood represented by these writers unsettles rather than automatically strengthens black subjects’ relationships to political movements such as racial uplift, civil rights, and black nationalism. He shows how black artists illuminate the challenges of racial collectivity while stressing the vital stakes of individual personhood. In his challenge to current African Americanist criticism, Freeburg makes a striking contribution to our understanding of African American literature and culture.
Black Lives and Spatial Matters
| Author | : Jodi Rios |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2020-08-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1501750488 |
Black Lives and Spatial Matters is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another racial, cultural, or ethnic conflict that can be solved solely through legal, political, or economic means. Jodi Rios argues that the historical and material production of blackness-as-risk is foundational to the historical and material construction of our society and certainly foundational to the construction and experience of metropolitan space. She also considers how an ethics of lived blackness—living fully and visibly in the face of forces intended to dehumanize and erase—can create a powerful counter point to blackness-as-risk. Using a transdisciplinary methodology, Black Lives and Spatial Matters studies cultural, institutional, and spatial politics of race in North St. Louis County, Missouri, as a set of practices that are intimately connected to each other and to global histories of race and race-making. As such, the book adds important insight into the racialization of metropolitan space and people in the United States. The arguments presented in this book draw from fifteen years of engaged research in North St. Louis County and rely on multiple disciplinary perspectives and local knowledge in order to study relationships between interconnected practices and phenomena.
Teaching for Black Lives
| Author | : Flora Harriman McDonnell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2018-04-13 |
| Genre | : Catholic women |
| ISBN | : 9780942961041 |
Black students' bodies and minds are under attack. We're fighting back. From the north to the south, corporate curriculum lies to our students, conceals pain and injustice, masks racism, and demeans our Black students. But it¿s not only the curriculum that is traumatizing students.
