Author: Michele Stepto
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An anthology is organized around four recurring images--the circle, the veil, water, and song--that form the basis of the rich African-American literary tradition.
Language: en
Pages: 159
Pages: 159
An anthology is organized around four recurring images--the circle, the veil, water, and song--that form the basis of the rich African-American literary tradition.
Language: en
Pages: 568
Pages: 568
Presents a collection of primary documents by African Americans describing their experiences and perspectives of the Civil War.
Language: en
Pages: 212
Pages: 212
Prominent health educators explore the pressing cultural and health needs of African Americans. Discussions on child abuse, teenage pregnancy, mental illness, access to health care, racism, lifestyles, and community values depict the complexity of problems affecting African Americans from a cross-section of different communities. Essential for all nurse educators, students,
Language: en
Pages: 227
Pages: 227
Language: en
Pages: 405
Pages: 405
Now in paperback! A collection of fourteen essays that address major issues related to significant works of African-American young adult literature.
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
stores, the Baptist churches, the community health clinics, and those streets where the aunties stood on the corner, and whose physical traces have now all been washed away. They conclude with visions of a safer, equitably rebuilt New Orleans." --Book Jacket.
Language: en
Pages: 288
Pages: 288
Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language,
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
This extraordinary record of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects 89 exceptional documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Nearly 900 African Americans fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima, but accounts of their service have gone largely unrecorded. This book seeks to correct that omission for the sake of the brave Americans who served and for the sake of a more inclusive American history. Eleven veterans contribute their
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Slaves in chains, toiling on master’s plantation. Beatings, bloodied whips. This is what many of us envision when we think of 19th century African Americans; source materials penned by those who suffered in bondage validate this picture. Yet slavery was not the only identity of 19th century African Americans. Whether