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Martin R. Delany

A Documentary Reader

By: Martin Robison Delany

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Martin R. Delany

A Documentary Reader

By: Martin Robison Delany

This is the first comprehensive collection of writings by Martin Delany, one of the nineteenth century's most influential African American leaders. Levine presents nearly 100 documents, two-thirds of which have not been reprinted since their initial publications.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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080785431X

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

By: Martin Robison Delany

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

By: Martin Robison Delany

Martin Robinson Delany was the quintessential nineteenth century activist. He used his talents to live a full life as a physician, army officer, author, politician, journalist, abolitionist, and pioneer Black nationalist. Among his wirting The Condition Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States is often considered his seminal and most controversial work. It was first published in 1852, a time of intense conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces. Delany used The Condition, Elevation, Emigration to analyze this conflict and its probable solution. Crafting a skillful argument, he attacked slavery and the subjugation of Black people.He recorded their achievements in business, agriculture, literature, the military, and other professions. Concluding that Blacks would never be allowed to coexist with whites, Delany completed his analysis by suggesting possible locations for Black emigration.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121423

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Martin R. Delany

A Documentary Reader

By: Martin Robison Delany

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A Documentary Reader

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The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

By: Martin Robison Delany

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The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the ...

By: Martin Robinson Delany

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By: Martin Robinson Delany

Reproduction of the original: The Conditon, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the ... by Martin Robinson Delany

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752310065

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9783752310061

American Exceptionalism

A Double-edged Sword

By: Seymour Martin Lipset

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American Exceptionalism

A Double-edged Sword

By: Seymour Martin Lipset

Is America unique? One of our major political analysts explores the deeply held but often unarticulated beliefs that shape the American creed. "(A) magisterial attempt to distill a lifetime of learning about America into a persuasive brief . . . (by) the dean of American political sociologists".--Carlin Romano, "Boston Globe".

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316149

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9780393316148

Blake; or, The Huts of America

A Corrected Edition

By: Martin R. Delany

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Blake; or, The Huts of America

A Corrected Edition

By: Martin R. Delany

Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861–1862) is one of the most important African American—and indeed American—works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all the more strange and mysterious for remaining incomplete, breaking off before its final scene. This edition of Blake, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present. Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction.

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Harvard University Press

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0674088727

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9780674088726

Killing Time

Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800–1850

By: Scott C. Martin

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Killing Time

Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800–1850

By: Scott C. Martin

Scott C. Martin examines leisure as a “contested cultural space” in which nineteenth-century Americans articulated and developed ideas about ethnicity, class, gender, and community. This new perspective demonstrates how leisure and sociability mediated the transition from an agricultural to an industrial society. Martin argues persuasively that southwestern Pennsylvanians used leisure activities to create identities and define values in a society being transformed by market expansion. The transportation revolution brought new commercial entertainments and recreational opportunities but also fragmented and privatized customary patterns of communal leisure. By using leisure as a window on the rapid changes sweeping through the region, Martin shows how southwestern Pennsylvanians used voluntary associations, private parties, and public gatherings to construct social identities better suited to their altered circumstances. The prosperous middle class devised amusements to distinguish them from workers who, in turn, resisted reformersÆ attempts to constrain their use of free time. Ethnic and racial minorities used holiday observances and traditional celebrations to define their place in American society, while women tested the boundaries of the domestic sphere through participation in church fairs, commercial recreation, and other leisure activities. This study illuminates the cultural history of the region and offers broader insights into perceptions of free time, leisure, and community in antebellum America.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822970430

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9780822970439

Blake

or; The Huts of America

By: Martin R. Delany

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Blake

or; The Huts of America

By: Martin R. Delany

Delaney's hero is a West Indian slave who travels throughout the South advocating revolution, and later becomes the general of a black insurrectory fore in Cuba. Blake hopes that, with rebellion in Cuba and the expulsion of all Americans, Cuba's model as a self-governed black state will ultimately precipitate the downfall of slavery in the United States. Focusing on the political and social issues of the 1850s – slavery as an institution, Cuba as the prime interest of Southern expansionists, the practicality of militant slave revolution, and the possibilities of collective action – Blake is one of the most revealing novels of its period.

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Beacon Press

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0807096717

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9780807096710

Toni Morrison

A Literary Life

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

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Toni Morrison

A Literary Life

By: Linda Wagner-Martin

A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison’s major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison’s aesthetic and political visions.

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254

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Springer Nature

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3030885909

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9783030885908

Toni Morrison

A Literary Life

By: L. Wagner-Martin

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Toni Morrison

A Literary Life

By: L. Wagner-Martin

A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison — fiction, non-fiction, and other — drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts. The author aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty years.

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1137446706

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Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

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Freedom on My Mind, Combined Volume

A History of African Americans, with Documents

By: Deborah Gray White,Mia Bay,Waldo E. Martin, Jr.

Award-winning scholars and veteran teachers Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. have collaborated to create a fresh, innovative new African American history textbook that weaves together narrative and a wealth of carefully selected primary sources. The narrative focuses on the diversity of black experience, on culture, and on the impact of African Americans on the nation as a whole. Every chapter contains two themed sets of written documents and a visual source essay, guiding students through the process of analyzing sources and offering the convenience and value of a "two-in-one" textbook and reader.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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145763760X

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9781457637605

Apropos of Africa

Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s

By: Martin Kilson,A.Cromwell Hill

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Apropos of Africa

Sentiments of Negro American Leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s

By: Martin Kilson,A.Cromwell Hill

First published in 1969. This is part of a series that comprises reprints as well as original works on various aspects of African life- history, institutions, culture, political and social thought, and eminent African personalities. As 'Africana' in the title indicates, the term 'African' is used liberally and includes persons of African descent in the New World whose life and work are clearly and deeply identified with Africa. The reprints are in most part landmarks of African writing and each will contain a new introduction placing the author's life, ideas and activities in perspective.

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Routledge

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1136253025

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The Origin of Races and Color

By: Martin Robison Delany

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The Origin of Races and Color

By: Martin Robison Delany

Of the books authored by Martin R. Delany (1812-1885), The Origin of Races and Color is perhaps the most obscure. Out-of-print until now, it has been available to the public only through select libraries. At the time of its publication in 1879, this valuable resource presented a bold challenge to racist views of African inferiority. Delany wrote in opposition to a developing oppressive intellectualism that used Darwin's thesis, "the survival of the fittest," to support its demented theories of Black inferiority. Skillfully blending biblical history, archaeology and anthropology, Delany offered evidence to the "serious inquirer" suggesting the first humans were African, and that these Africans were ". . . builders of the pyramids, sculptors of the sphinxes, and original god-kings. . . ." With such radical assertions, Delany advanced a model of ancient history that contradicted the very foundation of intellectual racism. He believed knowledge of one's past was essential, and that it could provide Black people with the regenerative force necessary to inspire their self-improvement. Were he alive today, Delany would certainly feel at home with the present generation of Africancentrists, especially since he developed and articulated so many of their arguments more than a century ago.

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Black Classic Press

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0933121504

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9780933121508

The Origin of Races and Color

By: Martin Robison Delany

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By: Martin Robison Delany

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Video Movie Guide 2002

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

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Video Movie Guide 2002

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

This bestselling video guide to films, serials, TV movies, and old TV series available on video is completely updated with the newest releases. Containing more than 18,000 listings, this revised edition includes 400 new entries that are detailed with a summary, commentary, director, cast members, MPAA rating, and authors' rating.

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Fawcett

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0345421000

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9780345421005

DVD & Video Guide 2005

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

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DVD & Video Guide 2005

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

Wondering what video to rent tonight? This bestselling, fact-packed guide is the only sourcebook you and your family will ever need. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter steer you toward the winners and warn you about the losers. DVD & Video Guide 2004 covers it all-more films than any other guide, plus your favorite serials, B-Westerns, made-for-TV movies, and old television programs! Each entry, conveniently alphabetized for easy access, includes a summary, fresh commentary, the director, major cast members, the year of release, and the MPAA rating, plus a reliable Martin and Porter rating-from Five Stars to Turkey-so you'll never get caught with a clunker again!

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Ballantine Books

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0345449959

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9780345449955

Video Movie Guide 1996

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

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Video Movie Guide 1996

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

A QUICK AND EASY RENTER'S GUIDE TO HELP YOU FIND VIDEOS, ORGANIZED JUST LIKE YOUR VIDEO STORE! You'll be watching movies like the experts with this fact-packed video guide to more than16,000 films. Organized by category to make your decision easier, this bestselling encyclopedia is unique in its comprehensive coverage and user-friendliness. From Five Stars to Turkey, the ratings help you preview the perfect movie for you! * * * Indexed by director, star, title, and Oscar winners! * * * In the full-title index, all four- and five-star movies are indicated by an *, and all new entries are highlighted for easy identification. * * * Special sections on family, foreign, and documentary films! * * * More offbeat and obscure films than any other guide, with serials, B-Westerns, horror movies, repackaged TV series, and made-for-TV movies! * * * "The best all-around volume." --Newsday

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0345397835

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9780345397836

The Video Movie Guide 2001

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

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The Video Movie Guide 2001

By: Mick Martin,Marsha Porter

Presents brief reviews of more than nineteen thousand films and other videos that are available at rental stores and through mail order, arranged alphabetically by title; also includes actor and director indexes.

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