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Bearing Witness to African American Literature

Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency

By: Bernard W. Bell

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Bearing Witness to African American Literature

Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency

By: Bernard W. Bell

An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell. Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency collects twenty-three of Bernard W. Bell’s lectures and essays that were first presented between 1968 and 2008. From his role in the culture wars as a graduate student activist in the Black Studies Movement to his work in the transcultural Globalization Movement as an international scholar and Fulbright cultural ambassador in Spain, Portugal, and China, Bell’s long and inspiring journey traces the modern institutional origins and the contemporary challengers of African American literary studies. This volume is made up of five sections, including chapters on W. E. B. DuBois’s theory and trope of double consciousness, an original theory of residually oral forms for reading the African American novel, an argument for an African Americentric vernacular and literary tradition, and a deconstruction of the myths of the American melting pot and literary mainstream. Bell considers texts by contemporary writers like Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, William Styron, James Baldwin, and Jean Toomer, as well as works by Mark Twain, Frederick Douglas, and William Faulkner. In a style that ranges from lyricism to the classic jeremiad, Bell emphasizes that his work bears the imprint of many major influences, including his mentor, poet and scholar Sterling A. Brown, and W. E. B. DuBois. Taken together, the chapters demonstrate Bell’s central place as a revisionist African American literary and cultural theorist, historian, and critic. Bearing Witness to African American Literature will be an invaluable introduction to major issues in the African American literary tradition for scholars of American, African American, and cultural studies.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814337155

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9780814337158

W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

By: Bernard W. Bell,Emily R. Grosholz,James B. Stewart

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

By: Bernard W. Bell,Emily R. Grosholz,James B. Stewart

Interpreting Du Bois' thoughts on race and culture in a broadly philosophical sense, this volume assembles original essays by some of today's leading scholars in a critical dialogue on different important theoretical and practical issues that concerned him throughout his long career: the conundrum of race, the issue of gender equality, and the perplexities of pan-Africanism.

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318

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Routledge

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1136048707

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9781136048708

Race-ethnicity and Society

By: Benjamin Bernard Ringer,Elinor R. Lawless

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Race-ethnicity and Society

By: Benjamin Bernard Ringer,Elinor R. Lawless

Benjamin Ringer and Elinor Lawless argue that the treatment of racial minorities in America has been qualitatively different from that experienced by white immigrants; that racism is not a mere aberration in American society -- largely confined to the South -- but built into the very foundations of the society.

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264

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0415900344

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9780415900348

The F. D. R. Memoirs

By: Bernard Asbell,Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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The F. D. R. Memoirs

By: Bernard Asbell,Franklin Delano Roosevelt

This work is the "memoirs" F.D.R. might have written, based on Roosevelt's own papers and letters, and presented as a draft for Roosevelt's use. Bernard Asbell spent six years analyzing Roosevelt's private papers, and diaries of White House associates, and interviewers. He has written, as a speculation on history, F.D.R.'s New Deal memoirs for him. Each chapter includes a background memorandum, exploring Roosevelt's character. Rich in fact and psychological speculation, these memoranda reinterpret the political man in terms of his most personal experiences.

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484

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0385084145

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9780385084147

Big Business and the Mass Media

By: Bernard Rubin

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Big Business and the Mass Media

By: Bernard Rubin

Monograph containing five essays on relationships between business and the mass media, with particular reference to the USA - deals with social implications, ethical and legal aspects, responsibilitys, etc. To be shared by business and the media, incl. The influence of business on public opinion, the role of advertising, news coverage in the press, etc. References and statistical tables.

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Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books

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0669015172

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9780669015171

Book's by Bernard W. Bell

Bearing Witness to African American Literature

Bearing Witness to African American Literature

W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture

Race-ethnicity and Society

Race-ethnicity and Society

The F. D. R. Memoirs

The F. D. R. Memoirs

Big Business and the Mass Media

Big Business and the Mass Media

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