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Let your motto be resistance: African American portraits
Deborah WillisA companion to the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture traces 150 years of U.S. history through the lives of eminent leaders, in a volume of detailed portraits featuring such figures as Henry Highland ...
Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums ...
PreviewIn this landmark guide, nearly two dozen essays by scholars, educators, and museum leaders suggest the next steps in the interpretation of African American history and culture from the colonial period to the twentieth century at history ...
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From ...
Paul FinkelmanExplores how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans and documents African American history from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death ...
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the ...
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)Joanne Hyppolite, Ehimexicho's williams prever, Dwandalyn R. Reece, Jacquelyn Dysserwer, and Michelleloanwilkinson. we also remember with profoundgratitude the late distinguished historian clement Alexander Price, amember of the ...
Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Create the ...
Robert Leon WilkinsIn Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African ...
From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of ...
Andrea A. Burns" This book tells the story of four of these groundbreaking museums: the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago (founded in 1961); the International Afro-American Museum in Detroit (1965); the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in ...
Annals of the Náprstek Museum
Náprstkovo muzeum asijských, afrických a amerických kulturPublished by the National Museum - Naprstek Museum of Asian African and American Cultures CZ - 110 00 Prague 1, Betlemske namesti 1 Executive Editor: Alice Kraemerova Editors: Jana Souckova, PhD., Dagmar Pospisilova, PhD., Prof .
The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture
Jared GardnerIntroduction: the literary museum and the unsettling of the early American novel -- American spectators, tatlers, and guardians: transatlantic periodical culture in the eighteenth century -- The American magazine in the early national ...
Atlas of African-American History
James CimentA comprehensive history of African Americans, including culture, slavery, and civil rights.
Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic ...
Avi Y. DecterBenjamin Filene, “Power in Limits: Narrow Frames Open Up African American Public History,” in Max van Balgooey, ed., Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, ...
Alvin Ailey: Celebrating African-American Culture in Dance
Bárbara CruzRelates the life of dancer, choreographer, and artistic director Alvin Ailey, whose vision was to celebrate the richness of African American history and culture through dance.
African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical ...
PreviewTimothy E. Fulop and Albert J. Raboteau, eds.,African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays in History and Culture(New York: Routledge, 1997), 299. 6. We must bear in mind that, as Raboteau has urged us, these are not static Africanisms, ...
Drugs in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, ...
Nancy E. Marion... and Drug Abuse, lxviii National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse, 268 National African American Drug Policy Coalition (NAADPC), 19 National Alcohol and Drug Recovery Month, lxxxii National Anti-Opium Association, 240 National Assets ...
The African American National Biography: Eight-volume set: ...
More editionsIn the words of AANB editor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "These stories, long buried in the dusty archives of history, will never be lost again. And that is what scholarship in the field of African American Studies should be all about."
A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American ...
Albert J. RaboteauTraces the history of the African American religious experience and shows how the active faith of African Americans empowered the struggle for social justice throughout history
The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and ...
Dylan C. Penningroth... “The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture,” William and Mary Quarterly 53 (Jan. 1996): 92, 94; Richard Noble Westmacott, African- American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South (Knoxville, 1992); Sidney W. Mintz, ...
Siebold and Japan: His Life and Work
Arlette KouwenhovenThese are now part of the collections of the world-renowned National Museum of Ethnology and the Naturalis (National Museum of Natural History) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art ...
Bridget R. Cooks... of Science, Natural History, and Art disbanded into three separate museums in 1951: The Los Angeles County Museum of Science, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and the Los Angeles County Museum ofArt. 7.
Spectacle Culture and American Identity: 1815-1940
S. TennerielloEd Sealover, “Colorado History Museum Plans Higher Profile inNew Home,” Denver Business Journal, April24, 2009,
Early African American Print Culture
PreviewIn this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American print culture, both on the page and off.
Southern Secrets: Sins of the Past
Rick RichardsonAfrican-American history, American history and African history take root in this spellbinding story. This untold story that never made it into the pages of history books is a must read.
Jewish American Food Culture
Jonathan DeutschFood Cultures in America Ken Albala, General Editor African American Food Culture William Frank Mitchell Asian American Food Culture Jane E. Dusselier Latino Food Culture Zilkia Janer Jewish American Food Culture Jonathan Deutsch ...
Asian American Food Culture
Alice L. McLeanFood Cultures in America Ken Albala, General Editor African American Food Culture William Frank Mitchell Asian American Food Culture Alice L. McLean Latino Food Culture Zilkia Janer Jewish American Food Culture Jonathan Deutsch and ...
Religion and American Culture: A Reader
David G. HackettAFRICAN AMERICANS, EXODUS, AND THE AMERICAN ISRAEL Albert J. Raboteau During the past two decades, research on African American religious beliefs and practices has challenged an older focus on the institutional and intellectual ...
Self-taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American ...
PreviewMuseum, Leslie Umberger at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Brooke Anderson and Janey Fire at the Museum of American Folk Art, and Lynn Spriggs at the High Museum of Art were extremely helpful. l owe an immense debt of gratitude ...
Signs and symbols: African images in African-American quilts
Maude WahlmanInterview by Eva Ungar Grudin with Yvonne Wells, February 1989. 5. Eva Ungar Grudin, Stitching Memories: African-American Story Quilts (Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College Museum of Art, 1990), 42-43. INTRODUCTION 1.
Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's ...
Rita B. DandridgeEvelyn Higginbotham, "African American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17 (Winter 1992): 256. 15. In 1994, Frances Smith Foster anthologized and reprinted Harper's first ...
New York History Review Annual
NEW YORK. HISTORY REVIEWHudson Valley Culture, edited by Roger Panetta, 339 - 376. New York: Hudson River Museum, 2009. Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. “International at the Creation: Early Modern American History.” In Rethinking American History in a Global Age, ...
The Story of an African Game
André OdendaalThe Story of an African Game is a ground-breaking history of black South African cricket that debunks the myth that blacks have no cricketing culture or history to speak of.
Latino Food Culture
Zilkia JanerFood Cultures in America Ken Albala, General Editor African American Food Culture William Frank Mitchell Asian American Food Culture Jane E. Dusselier Latino Food Culture Zilkia Janer Jewish American Food Culture Jonathan Deutsch ...
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