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The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

By: Stacy I. Morgan,Yvonne Thomas Wells

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The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

By: Stacy I. Morgan,Yvonne Thomas Wells

A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself

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360

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University of Alabama Press

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ISBN 10

0817361383

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9780817361389

Rethinking Social Realism

African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

By: Stacy I. Morgan

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Rethinking Social Realism

African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

By: Stacy I. Morgan

The social realist movement, with its focus on proletarian themes and its strong ties to New Deal programs and leftist politics, has long been considered a depression-era phenomenon that ended with the start of World War II. This study explores how and why African American writers and visual artists sustained an engagement with the themes and aesthetics of social realism into the early cold war-era--far longer than a majority of their white counterparts. Stacy I. Morgan recalls the social realist atmosphere in which certain African American artists and writers were immersed and shows how black social realism served alternately to question the existing order, instill race pride, and build interracial, working-class coalitions. Morgan discusses, among others, such figures as Charles White, John Wilson, Frank Marshall Davis, Willard Motley, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, and Hale Woodruff.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820325791

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9780820325798

Frankie and Johnny

Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America

By: Stacy I. Morgan

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Frankie and Johnny

Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America

By: Stacy I. Morgan

Winner, Wayland D. Hand Prize, American Folklore Society, 2018 Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of “Frankie and Johnny” became one of America’s most familiar songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It crossed lines of race, class, and artistic genres, taking form in such varied expressions as a folk song performed by Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly); a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and Bentley Stone under New Deal sponsorship; a mural in the Missouri State Capitol by Thomas Hart Benton; a play by John Huston; a motion picture, She Done Him Wrong, that made Mae West a national celebrity; and an anti-lynching poem by Sterling Brown. In this innovative book, Stacy I. Morgan explores why African American folklore—and “Frankie and Johnny” in particular—became prized source material for artists of diverse political and aesthetic sensibilities. He looks at a confluence of factors, including the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and resurgent nationalism, that led those creators to engage with this ubiquitous song. Morgan’s research uncovers the wide range of work that artists called upon African American folklore to perform in the 1930s, as it alternately reinforced and challenged norms of race, gender, and appropriate subjects for artistic expression. He demonstrates that the folklorists and creative artists of that generation forged a new national culture in which African American folk songs featured centrally not only in folk and popular culture but in the fine arts as well.

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272

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University of Texas Press

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1477312102

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9781477312100

All a Cowboy Wants for Christmas

Waiting for Christmas\His Christmas Wish\Once Upon a Frontier Christmas

By: Judith Stacy,Lauri Robinson,Debra Cowan

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All a Cowboy Wants for Christmas

Waiting for Christmas\His Christmas Wish\Once Upon a Frontier Christmas

By: Judith Stacy,Lauri Robinson,Debra Cowan

Once upon a frontier Christmas: Presumed dead, rancher Smith Jennings returns home and will do whatever it takes to claim the woman he loves. But Caroline Curtis isn't the same woman he left behind."--Provided by the publisher.

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283

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Harlequin

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0373297076

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9780373297078

Rethinking Social Realism

African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

By: Stacy I. Morgan

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African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953

By: Stacy I. Morgan

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The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

Rethinking Social Realism

Rethinking Social Realism

Frankie and Johnny

Frankie and Johnny

All a Cowboy Wants for Christmas

All a Cowboy Wants for Christmas

Rethinking Social Realism

Rethinking Social Realism

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