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Buy Black examines the role American Black women play in Black consumption in the US and worldwide, with a focus on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki ......
Dick Simpson draws upon his fifty-year career as a legislator, campaign strategist, and government advisor to examine the challenges confronting Americans in their struggle to build the United States as a multiracial, multiethnic democracy.
In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues ......
Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of Spielberg as a Barnumesque purveyor of spectacle, Lester D. Friedman presents the filmmaker as a major artist who pairs an ongoing willingness to challenge himself with a widely recognized technical ......
Durante mas de cincuenta anos, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y union entre puertorriquenos y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Perez-Rosario va mas alla del enfoque tragico de otras biografias de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriquena y la compleja historia de la ......
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velazquez tells how ......
The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children's classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velazquez tells how ......
Durante mas de cincuenta anos, Julia de Burgos ha evocado sentimientos de identidad y union entre puertorriquenos y latinos en Estados Unidos. Vanessa Perez-Rosario va mas alla del enfoque tragico de otras biografias de Burgos para examinar la vida de la artista considerando el trasfondo de la cultura puertorriquena y la compleja historia de la ......
