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Somerset, New Jersey, U. S. A.: John Wiley & Sons Inc. Near Fine in New dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Central to the complex and inspiring story of The Black Washingtonians are the thousands of African American men and women who made major contributions to the city's physical, economic, social, and cultural development. Included is Benjamin Bannaker, the self-educated clock maker, writer, and astronomer who took part in the survey of the Districts boundaries; the thousands of African American laborers, both slave and free, who literally built the city; and the three uneducated black men who founded the city's first free black academy in 1807. Countless other individuals played important part in the growth of Washington and the United States, and their stories and accomplishments are included here. This is a great resource for scholars, students, historians, and anyone interested in African American history. This volume is new but has a bump on the top front…
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The Black Washingtonians: the Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology
by Anacostia Museum and Center For African American History and Culture; Holmes Norton, Eleanor (Foreword by)
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Brutal Imagination: Poems
by Eady, Cornelius
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E Rutherford, New Jersey, U. S. A.: Putnam Pub Group. Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Brutal Imagination is made up of two cycles of poems, each confronting the same subject: The black man in white America. The first cycle deals with the vision of the black man in white imagination. Narrated largely by the black kidnapper invented by Susan Smith to cover up the killing of her two small sons, it displays Eady's stunning range: His deft wit, inventiveness, and skillfully targeted anger. The second cycle, "Running Man, " presents poems Eady drew on for his libretto for the music-drama of the same name, which was a 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist. The focus is the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart, and the title character represents every dreaming black boy who ever crashed into the limits set by the white world as he reached manhood. They are the work of a poet at the peak of his considerable powers. 108 pages. The…
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The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction
by Mitchell, Angelyn
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Piscataway, New Jersey, U. S. A.: Rutgers Univ Pr. New with no dust jacket. 2002. Softcover. The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. Reent studies have investigated thee works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, no slavery, defining these works as "liberatory narratives. " Mitchell shows how the liberatory narrative functions to emancipate its readers from the legacies of slavery in American society: By facilitating a deeper discussion of the issues and by making them new through illumination and interrogation. The author looks at six main works, although cites dozens in her analyses. 179 pages including an index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .
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"Marse Henry", an Autobiography
by Watterson, Henry
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George H. Doran Company. Fine with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardcover. Binding is green with Watterson's signature on the front in gold, and lettering on the side in gold. Two volume set. Volume 2 has a few small spots on the front. 629 pages, all fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .
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Race and the Modern Artist
by Hathaway, Heather; Jarab, Josef; Melnick, Jeffrey (editors)
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New York: Oxford Univ Press. New with no dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. For decades it has been a given that American modernism was the purview of a narrow group of white Euro-Americans. Writers on the margin - African Americans, Jews, and Latinos, for instance - have long been considered too political or too parochial to have a place in the modernist canon. The essays in this collection, written in tribute to the late African American historian Nathan Huggins by his colleagues and students, take as their premise that high modernism, as traditionally understood, was not the only significant reaction by American artists to the revolutionary changes that defined the modern era. They examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. It adds an important new dimension to understanding 20th century literature. Includes an index. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .
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Zenzele : a Letter for My Daughter
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New York, Ny, U. S. A.: Crown Publishing Group. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover, Cloth. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, like the tales of the traditional village storyteller, this letter is a gift from one generation to the next. As her daughter enters a new world, a mother shares the riches of her own through stories of her personal experiences and those of her generation. She writes of Zimbabwe's stuggle for independence, and of the men and women who shaped it: Zenzele's father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and a secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and spy. Each parable is a shrewd and quite often humorous tale interwoven to form a compelling and powerful story. 194 pages, no marks or tears. Price not clipped. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. .
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