African Cultural Influence in American Society: An Anthology provides students with a curated collection of readings that identify and explore the ways in which American society has been shaped by African culture. The anthology is organized into three main chapters. The opening chapter examines African traditional beliefs through arts and ......
African Artists under Mission Patronage explores relationships between African artists and Western Christian missions in twentieth-century Africa, and how that patronage has shaped and defined twentieth-century African art.
Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.
Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction
In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government.
From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama
Exploring the many facets of African American participation in the U.S. foreign policy apparatusBookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, memoirs of policymakers, and newly available FBI files to ......
From the Era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama
Exploring the many facets of African American participation in the U.S. foreign policy apparatusBookended by remarks from African American diplomats Walter C. Carrington and Charles Stith, the essays in this volume use close readings of speeches, letters, historical archives, diaries, memoirs of policymakers, and newly available FBI files to ......
This book highlights significant contributions of African American women in education, their successes and challenges in the human sciences/family and consumer sciences profession, and the impact of historically Black colleges and universities throughout American history.
African Americans in the Furniture City is unique not only in terms of its subject, but also for its framing of the African American struggle for survival, civil rights, and community inside a discussion of the larger white community. Examining the African-American community of Grand Rapids, Michigan between 1850 and 1954, Randal Maurice Jelks ......
