The Complicated Life Of The African American Man
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The Complicated Life Of The African American Man
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Author : Jonathan Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Now It's Done Inc.
Release Date : 2006-03
The Complicated Life Of The African American Man written by Jonathan Richardson and has been published by Now It's Done Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with Social Science categories.
Through Our Eyes
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Author : Gail Garfield
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-11
Through Our Eyes written by Gail Garfield and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-11 with Social Science categories.
How have African American men interpreted and what meaning have they given to social conditions that position them as the primary perpetrators of violence? How has this shaped the ways they see themselves and engaged the world? Through Our Eyes provides a view of black men’s experiences that challenges scholars, policy makers, practitioners, advocates, and students to grapple with the reality of race, gender, and violence in America.This multi-level analysis explores the chronological life histories of eight black men from the aftermath of World War II through the Cold War and into today. Gail Garfield identifies the locations, impact, and implications of the physical, personal, and social violence that enters the lives of African American men. She addresses questions critical to understanding how race, gender, and violence are insinuated into black men’s everyday lives and how experiences are constructed, reconstructed, and interpreted. By appreciating the significance of how African American men live through what it means to be black and male in America, this book envisions the complicated dynamics that devalue their lives, those of their family, and society.
Let Us Make Men
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Author : D'Weston Haywood
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2018-09-25
Let Us Make Men written by D'Weston Haywood and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Social Science categories.
During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. In a story that stretches from the turn of the twentieth century to the rise of the Black Power movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers. This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life. Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.
The Minds Of Marginalized Black Men
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Author : Alford A. Young Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-30
The Minds Of Marginalized Black Men written by Alford A. Young Jr. and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-30 with Social Science categories.
While we hear much about the "culture of poverty" that keeps poor black men poor, we know little about how such men understand their social position and relationship to the American dream. Moving beyond stereotypes, this book examines how twenty-six poverty-stricken African American men from Chicago view their prospects for getting ahead. It documents their definitions of good jobs and the good life--and their beliefs about whether and how these can be attained. In its pages, we meet men who think seriously about work, family, and community and whose differing experiences shape their views of their social world. Based on intensive interviews, the book reveals how these men have experienced varying degrees of exposure to more-privileged Americans--differences that ground their understandings of how racism and socioeconomic inequality determine their life chances. The poorest and most socially isolated are, perhaps surprisingly, most likely to believe that individuals can improve their own lot. By contrast, men who regularly leave their neighborhood tend to have a wider range of opportunities but also have met with more racism, hostility, and institutional obstacles--making them less likely to believe in the American Dream. Demonstrating how these men interpret their social world, this book seeks to de-pathologize them without ignoring their experiences with chronic unemployment, prison, and substance abuse. It shows how the men draw upon such experiences as they make meaning of the complex circumstances in which they strive to succeed.
Difficult Men
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Author : Brett Martin
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Difficult Men written by Brett Martin and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Performing Arts categories.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television's inventiveness, emotional resonance and ambition. Shows such as The Wire, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence and existential boredom. Television shows became the place to go to see stories of the triumph and betrayals of the American Dream at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This revolution happened at the hands of a new breed of auteur: the all-powerful writer-show runner. These were men nearly as complicated, idiosyncratic, and "difficult" as the conflicted protagonists that defined the genre. Given the chance to make art in a maligned medium, they fell upon the opportunity with unchecked ambition. Difficult Men features extensive interviews with all the major players, including David Chase and James Gandolfini ( The Sopranos), David Simon, Dominic West and Ed Burns ( The Wire), Vince Gilligan ( Breaking Bad), Matthew Weiner and Jon Hamm ( Mad Men), David Milch ( NYPD Blue, Deadwood) and Alan Ball ( Six Feet Under), in addition to dozens of other writers, directors, studio executives and actors. Martin takes us behind the scenes of our favourite shows, delivering never-before-heard story after story and revealing how TV has emerged from the shadow of film to become a truly significant and influential part of our culture. Brett Martin is the author of The Supranos: The Book(2007). His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Food and Wine and Vanity Fair. Difficult Men is an insightful history of popular US TV drama which traces the emergence of shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Wire, and explores their engagement with important social issues around love, sexuality, race and violence.
Fairy Tales With A Black Consciousness
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Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-07-03
Fairy Tales With A Black Consciousness written by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-03 with Social Science categories.
The all new essays in this book discuss black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales. The representation of black protagonists in such tales helps to shape children's ideas about themselves and the world beyond--which can ignite a will to read books representing diverse characters. The need for a multicultural text set which includes the multiplicity of cultures within the black diaspora is discussed. The tales referenced in the text are rich in perspective: they are Aesop's fables, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Ananse. Readers will see that stories from black perspectives adhere to the dictates of traditional literary conventions while still steeped in literary traditions traceable to Africa or the diaspora.
African American Satire
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Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2001
African American Satire written by Darryl Dickson-Carr and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Humor categories.
"Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played. In the process he investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire." --Book Jacket.
The Souls Of Black Folk Annotated
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Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-28
The Souls Of Black Folk Annotated written by W. E. B. Du Bois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-28 with categories.
The Souls of Black Folk (1903) is a work in African-American literature, that to this day is lauded as one of the most important parts of African-American and sociological history. In this collection of essays, Du Bois coins two terms that have developed into theoretical fields of study: "double consciousness" and "the Veil." "Double consciousness" is the belief that the African-American in the United States live with two conflicting identities that cannot be entirely merged together. First and most important to the black experience is the black identity. The second most important thing is the American identity, an identity into which the black man was born only because of the historical remnants of slavery. Working along with the idea of double consciousness is the veil, which describes that African-Americans' lived experience happens behind a veil. While they are able to understand what life is like for people outside of and within their group, it is difficult for white people to fully understand the black experience. The Souls of Black Folk provides the reader with a glimpse into life behind the veil. In order to full explain the experience of living behind the veil, Du Bois provides the reader with anecdotes and situations that the black man experiences throughout the period of reconstruction. In the first essay, the reader learns about his experience within the veil, and of his realization of the discrimination he would face because of his skin color. In the second essay, Du Bois contends that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. This provides a basis for the rest of his essays, where he further analyzes the stratification and marginalization processes that exist due to the existence of this invisible line. In the third essay, he describes Booker T. Washington's rise to prominence in America, and how his success, while symbolic for African-Americans, was also detrimental. Instead of realizing that the oppression of the Negro was what led to his lack of education, Washington argues that the Negro needed to focus more on education in order to achieve ultimate success. Du Bois takes a turn in his fourth essay, "Of the Meaning of Progress," when he begins to describe his experience as a schoolteacher in the Southern United States. After leaving his position as a teacher, the town in which he taught was overcome with "progress" (Du Bois, Page 55), or the process of industrialization. Industrialization soon becomes an obsession with wealth, as Du Bois realizes in the essay "Of the Wings of Atalanta." The Southern people, who had previously tended towards simplicity, now had a desire for wealth and materialism, all due to the process of industrialization. The changes that came with industrialization meant that the United States needed to provide a more skilled work force. In "Of the Training of the Black Man," the author demonstrates how the black man had many skills that would be helpful for this industrialization, but that due how submissive the Negro had been under slavery, there would need to be new training programs that would provide this education to the Negro people. The latter part of his collection of essays is a look into the development of the African-American society in the South. Through religion and education, the African-American is able to achieve a relative level of success in America. However, the veil with which he lives makes it difficult for him to ever fully achieve this. After examining the collective black experience, Du Bois provides individual black experiences to allow the reader to fully understand the plight of the Negro...
He Talk Like A White Boy
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Author : Joseph C. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Running Press
Release Date : 2009-01-06
He Talk Like A White Boy written by Joseph C. Phillips and has been published by Running Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-06 with Social Science categories.
Actor and social commentator Joseph C. Phillips speaks powerfully about the topic of life as a conservative African-American actor, husband, father, and citizen. In today's political climate, with race such an issue, this collection of essays is not only timely, but thought provoking. Like Democratic candidate for President Barack Obama, Phillips has had his authenticity as a black man questioned by members of his own race, for trivial reasons such as the way he speaks, his choices in music, politics, faith, and family. Also like Obama, Phillips has often been accused of not being “black enough,” while, as an actor, he has encountered even more pointing fingers for not being liberal enough. With a frank voice, this brilliant and outspoken author presents a series of witty and provocative essays that examine life as a conservative African-American, and the simple fact that authenticity is far more complicated than one's choice of words.
Was Huck Black
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Author : Shelley Fisher Fishkin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1993-04-29
Was Huck Black written by Shelley Fisher Fishkin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
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, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art. In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American speech played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how the voices of African-Americans have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature. Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckleberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying"--satire in an African-American vein--when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well--but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized. Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon. American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought.