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Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with ......
Along the Streets of Bronzeville examines the flowering of African American creativity, activism, and scholarship in the South Side Chicago district known as Bronzeville during the period between the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Poverty stricken, segregated, and bursting at the seams with migrants, ......
Unafraid of reinventing her sound and self to meet changing tastes, Denise LaSalle enjoyed success on and off the stage. This memoir of a lifetime in music is the true story of how a girl from rural Mississippi rose up to become the unquestioned queen of soul-blues.
Unafraid of reinventing her sound and self to meet changing tastes, Denise LaSalle enjoyed success on and off the stage. This memoir of a lifetime in music is the true story of how a girl from rural Mississippi rose up to become the unquestioned queen of soul-blues.
Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, this volume reframes the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an ......
Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, this volume reframes the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an ......
American Cultural Studies is a conversation among scholars about the sometimes contentious issue of what a specifically American cultural studies might look like. Assembling some of the field's most eloquent commentators, this volume stresses the importance of a historically informed cultural studies and delves into the discipline's roots in ......
Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present
Capturing the kick and stir of history as it unfolded, American Datelines reveals the courage, hope, and grit of the American experience as chronicled in the headlines of the nation's public press from the earliest issue of The Boston News-Letter to the major newspapers of today. The original articles in this compelling collection are arranged ......
Kathryn Hume explores the landscape of American fiction since 1960 and the disenfranchisement she discovers there to extricate the thread of a literary movement that she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream.In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a ......
