Skillfully conveys the integration of African and American influences on the psychology of African Americans using a consistent theme throughout the text - the idea that understanding the psychology of African Americans is closely linked to understanding what is happening in the institutional systems in the United States.
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research on the psychology of African Americans. Topics discussed include testing and measurement issues, child development, social behaviour, education, cognition, physiological functioning and clinical applications. The articles were previously published in The Journal of Black Psychology.
The history of the Eastern Kentucky Social Club's past and present bring the hidden aspects of Appalachian history and culture to life.Thomas E. Wagner and Phillip J. Obermiller's African American Miners and Migrants documents the lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky ......
The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.
It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. This literary corpus presents sixteen African American short stories, novelettes, and excerpts of novels.
It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core. This book aims to show that some celebrated African American authors, such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, have resisted this canonical rule. It also presents sixteen short stories and novelettes to demonstrate this act of literary defiance.
Documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. This volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory.
This text documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s to the present. It brings attention to larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of texts, offering a historical analysis of how literary theory was shaped.
A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, ''Baby Joe'' Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall and equally brave yet not-so-famous Marylanders such as Ann Weems, a ......
