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African American Studies



link to catalog page PERPENER, African-American Concert Dance

African-American Concert Dance

The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Author: John O. Perpener III
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2005

Restores primary African-American dance pioneers to their proper place in the history of American Dance innovation   learn more...

link to catalog page COLBURN, African-American Mayors

African-American Mayors

Race, Politics, and the American City

Author: Edited by David R. Colburn and Jeffrey S. Adler
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2005

How African-American mayors of major cities from Los Angeles to New York and Detroit to New Orleans met the post-election challenges of decaying inner cities, white flight, entrenched local power structures, and multiple demands from their diverse constituencies.   learn more...

link to catalog page STANFIELD, Body and Soul

Body and Soul

Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927-63

Author: Peter Stanfield
Pub Date: 2005

How the "dark continent" of blues and jazz provided Hollywood with a resonant resource to construct and negotiate the boundaries of American cultural identity   learn more...

link to catalog page TURNER, Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance Author: Joyce Moore Turner
Pub Date: October 2005

Artists, activists, and the development of international radicalism in Harlem   learn more...

link to catalog page NAISON, Communists in Harlem during the Depression Author: Mark Naison
Pub Date: 2005

The origins and impact of America's black Left   learn more...

link to catalog page CANTOR, Dewey and Elvis

Dewey and Elvis

The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay

Author: Louis Cantor
Pub Date: 2005

The pioneering deejay who brought rock 'n' roll to Memphis   learn more...

link to catalog page BELLEGARDE-SMITH, Fragments of Bone

Fragments of Bone

Neo-African Religions in a New World

Author: Edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Pub Date: July 2005

African religions as adapted and recontextualized in various New World environments   learn more...

link to catalog page JAMES, Genital Cutting and Transnational Sisterhood Author: Edited by Stanlie M. James and Claire C. Robertson
Pub Date: Cloth: 2002; Paper: 2005

A powerful challenge to Western representations of female genital cutting   learn more...

link to catalog page BROOKS, Lost Sounds

Lost Sounds

Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919

Author: Tim Brooks
Pub Date: Cloth: 2004; Paper: 2005

Biographies of the first African-American recording stars, and how they succeeded against tremendous odds   learn more...

link to catalog page FABI, Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel Author: M. Giulia Fabi
Pub Date: April 2005

Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature   learn more...

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