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The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

By: Paula von Gleich

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The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

By: Paula von Gleich

This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110761289

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9783110761283

Black City Cinema

African American Urban Experiences In Film

By: Paula Massood

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Black City Cinema

African American Urban Experiences In Film

By: Paula Massood

In Black City Cinema, Paula Massood shows how popular films reflected the massive social changes that resulted from the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North, West, and Mid-West during the first three decades of the twentieth century. By the onset of the Depression, the Black population had become primarily urban, transforming individual lives as well as urban experience and culture.Massood probes into the relationship of place and time, showing how urban settings became an intrinsic element of African American film as Black people became more firmly rooted in urban spaces and more visible as historical and political subjects. Illuminating the intersections of film, history, politics, and urban discourse, she considers the chief genres of African American and Hollywood narrative film: the black cast musicals of the 1920s and the "race" films of the early sound era to blaxploitation and hood films, as well as the work of Spike Lee toward the end of the century. As it examines such a wide range of films over much of the twentieth century, this book offers a unique map of Black representations in film.

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281

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Temple University Press

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1439905657

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9781439905654

Black & White & Noir

America's Pulp Modernism

By: Paula Rabinowitz

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Black & White & Noir

America's Pulp Modernism

By: Paula Rabinowitz

The first book to treat issues of race and ethnicity as related to noir, offering a cultural history of twentieth-century America through episodic readings of films, photographs, and literature.

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332

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Columbia University Press

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0231114818

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9780231114813

Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing

By: Paula Sanmartin

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Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing

By: Paula Sanmartin

This book is an essential addition to the study of comparative black literature of the Americas; it will also fill the gap that exists on theoretical studies exploring black women's writing from the Spanish Caribbean. This book examines literary representations of the historic roots of black women's resistance in the United States and Cuba by studying the following texts by both African American and Afro-Cuban women from four different literary genres (autobiographical slave narrative, contemporary novel on slavery, testimonial narrative, and poetry): Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) by the African American former slave Harriet Jacobs, Dessa Rose (1986) by the African American writer Sherley Ann Williams, Reyita, sencillamente: testimonio de una negra cubana nonagenarian [Simply Reyita. Testimonial Narrative of a Nonagenarian Black Cuban Woman] (1996), written/transcribed by the Afro-Cuban historian Daisy Rubiera Castillo from her interviews with her mother María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, "Reyita," and a selection of poems from the contemporary Afro-Cuban poets Nancy Morejón and Georgina Herrera. The study argues that the writers participate in black women's self-inscription in the historical process by positioning themselves as subjects of their history and seizing discursive control of their (hi)stories. Although the texts form part of separate discourses, the book explores the commonalities of the rhetorical devices and narrative strategies employed by the authors as they disassemble racist and sexist stereotypes, (re)constructing black female subjectivity through an image of active resistance against oppression, one that authorizes unconventional definitions of womanhood and motherhood. The book shows that in the womens' revisions of national history, their writings also demonstrate the pervasive role of racial and gender categories in the creation of a discourse of national identity, while promoting a historiography constructed within flexible borders that need to be negotiated constantly. The study's engagement in crosscultural exploration constitutes a step further in opening connections with a comparative literary study that is theoretically engaging, in order to include Afro-Cuban women writers and Afro-Caribbean scholars into scholarly discussions in which African American women have already managed to participate with a series of critical texts. The book explores connections between methods and perspectives derived from Western theories and from Caribbean and Black studies, while recognizing the black women authors studied as critics and scholars. In this sense, the book includes some of the writers' own commentaries about their work, taken from interviews (many of them conducted by the author Paula Sanmartín herself), as well as critical essays and letters. Black Women as Custodians of History adds a new dimension to the body of existing criticism by challenging the ways assumptions have shaped how literature is read by black women writers. Paula Sanmartín's study is a vivid demonstration of the strengths of embarking on multidisciplinary study. This book will be useful to several disciplines and areas of study, such as African diaspora studies, African American studies, (Afro) Latin American and (Afro) Caribbean studies, women's studies, genre studies, and slavery studies.

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368

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Cambria Press

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1604978694

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9781604978698

Race, Place, and Risk

Black Homicide in Urban America

By: Harold M. Rose,Paula D. McClain

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Race, Place, and Risk

Black Homicide in Urban America

By: Harold M. Rose,Paula D. McClain

Based on data from some of the larger black communities in the U.S., this book shows the impact of both individual and environmental influences on black homicide. While it primarily addresses black-on-black homicide, its purpose is to illustrate the effect of the environment on increasing the likelihood of victimization. Race, Place, and Risk demonstrates how changes in the urban economy during the past twenty-five years have played a major role in elevating the risk of victimization in large urban communities and in altering the structure of victimization as well.

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320

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SUNY Press

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0791403947

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9780791403945

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

By: Paula S. Rothenberg

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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

By: Paula S. Rothenberg

This [book] undertakes the study of issues of race, gender, and sexuality within the context of class. -Pref.

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804

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Macmillan

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0716761483

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9780716761488

White Privilege

By: Paula S. Rothenberg

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White Privilege

By: Paula S. Rothenberg

Studies of racism often focus on its devastating effects on the victims of prejudice. But no discussion of race is complete without exploring the other side--the ways in which some people or groups actually benefit, deliberately or inadvertently, from racial bias. This is the subject of Paula Rothenberg's groundbreaking anthology, White Privilege. The new edition of White Privilege once again challenges readers to explore ideas for using the power and the concept of white privilege to help combat racism in their own lives, and includes key essays and articles by Peggy McIntosh, Richard Dyer, bell hooks, Robert Jensen, Allan G. Johnson, and others. Three additional essays add new levels of complexity to our understanding of the paradoxical nature of white privilege and the politics and economics that lie behind the social construction of whiteness, making this edition an even better choice for educators. Brief, inexpensive, and easily integrated with other texts, this interdisciplinary collection of commonsense, non-rhetorical readings lets educators incorporate discussions of whiteness and white privilege into a variety of disciplines, including sociology, English composition, psychology, social work, women's studies, political science, and American studies.

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196

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Macmillan

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1429206608

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9781429206600

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

By: Paula J. Giddings

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Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

By: Paula J. Giddings

Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining “a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history,” comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings Ida B. Wells was born into slavery and raised in the Victorian age yet emerged—through her fierce political battles and progressive thinking—as the first “modern” black women in the nation’s history. Wells began her activist career when she tried to segregate a first-class railway car in Memphis. After being thrown bodily off the car, she wrote about the incident for black Baptist newspapers, thus beginning her career as a journalist. But her most abiding fight would be the one against lynching, a crime in which she saw all the themes she held most dear coalesce: sexuality, race, and the law.

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821

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Harper Collins

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0061972940

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9780061972942

The Black Swan

By: Paula Z. Hogan

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The Black Swan

By: Paula Z. Hogan

Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and life cycle of the black swan.

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Steck-Vaughn

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081721254X

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9780817212544

The Sacred Hoop

Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

By: Paula Gunn Allen

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The Sacred Hoop

Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

By: Paula Gunn Allen

This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of American Indian traditions and the crucial role of women in those traditions.

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328

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Boston : Beacon Press

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0807046000

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9780807046005

In Praise of Congregations

Leadership in the Local Church Today

By: Charles E. Bennison,Kortright Davis,Adair T. Lummis,Paula D. Nesbitt

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In Praise of Congregations

Leadership in the Local Church Today

By: Charles E. Bennison,Kortright Davis,Adair T. Lummis,Paula D. Nesbitt

Whenever we enter a new congregation, we must immerse ourselves in its culture and mores just as if it were a foreign country. Bennison opens the insights of congregational studies to clergy, church leaders, and churchgoers of all denominations endeavoring to understand, inspire, and lead the local church.

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292

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1561011517

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9781561011513

Unions and Economic Competitiveness

By: Lawrence R. Mishel,Paula Beth Vogel Voos

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Unions and Economic Competitiveness

By: Lawrence R. Mishel,Paula Beth Vogel Voos

Examines both the negative and the positive effects of trade unionization on various aspects of economic performance in the USA since the mid-1970s. Includes an overview of industrial relations and reorganization of work in West Germany.

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416

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Routledge

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0873328272

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9780873328272

Book's by Paula Black

The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature

Black City Cinema

Black City Cinema

Black & White & Noir

Black & White & Noir

Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing

Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing

Race, Place, and Risk

Race, Place, and Risk

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

Race, Class, and Gender in the United States

White Privilege

White Privilege

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

The Black Swan

The Black Swan

The Sacred Hoop

The Sacred Hoop

In Praise of Congregations

In Praise of Congregations

Unions and Economic Competitiveness

Unions and Economic Competitiveness

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