Author: Azaan Kamau
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: blackness, midst
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 2007-11-19
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1434337715
ISBN-13: 9781434337719

The book is a poetic biographical journey from childhood to womanhood. Azaan feels that Spirit used her as a tool to share these words, so that the world would embrace and love all unconditionally. This book is emotionally charged from beginning to end with pain, love, passion, and triumph! This book gives voice to a collection of life’s stories, some through a child’s eyes! The poems express many things people feel or think, but don’t have the courage to say. The book is a vivid look into society and the world as a whole. Writing the book was not only therapeutic, but it pro

Author: Adam Lively
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: imagination, race, blackness, masks
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-05-25
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0195133706
ISBN-13: 9780195133707

What is "race"? A biological fact, a social construction, or an assumed disguise? In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, acclaimed novelist and critic Adam Lively offers a brilliant exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness. Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expressions in European culture, at the time of the Europeans’ first encounters with African and American peoples, and follows these ideas to their current incarnations

Author: Jacquelyn Crenshaw
Publisher: iUniverse
Keywords: ethics, amp, blackness, nation, undress
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2010-06-14
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1450235441
ISBN-13: 9781450235440

To Undress a Nation in Blackness and Ethics brings a fresh renewal of poetic sounds to the Black communities from historical playwrights, short stories, song, and literature of our past, present, and future foundation. In lighten of our quest for knowledge, poetry has always brought to light the feelings and emotional accomplishments of our past and envision our future endeavors to overcome all obstacles that has hindered the fundamental structure of our history. Th ose things that were lost and forgotten can be revived by our endeavored search of our religious past, present, and future accomp

Author: Charles W. Mills
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: race, philosophy, essays, visible, blackness
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 1998-04
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0801484715
ISBN-13: 9780801484711

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison’s metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race’s centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination. European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a soc

Author: E. Patrick Johnson
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: authenticity, politics, performance, blackness, appropriating
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822331918
ISBN-13: 9780822331919

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson’s provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed—toward widely divergent ends—both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity—avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellent, fixed and malleable. Drawing on performance theory, queer studies, literary analysis, film criticism, and ethnographic fieldwork, Johnson describes how diverse constituencies persistently try to prescribe the bounda

Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: seventeenth, century, slavery, texts, blackness, key, versions
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $87.99
ISBN-10: 0521869307
ISBN-13: 9780521869300

Aphra Behn’s novel Oroonoko (1688) is one of the most widely studied works of seventeenth-century literature, because of its powerful representation of slavery and complex portrayal of ways in which differing races and cultures - European, Black African, and Native American - observe and misinterpret each other. This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary, along with complete texts of three major British seventeenth-century works concerned with race and colonialism: Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668), Behn’s Abde

Author: Cathy Cohen
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: black, politics, breakdown, aids, blackness, boundaries
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 1999-04-30
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0226112896
ISBN-13: 9780226112893

Last year, more African Americans were reported with AIDS than any other racial or ethnic group. And while African Americans make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for more than 55 percent of all newly diagnosed HIV infections. These alarming developments have caused reactions ranging from profound grief to extreme anger in African-American communities, yet the organized political reaction has remained remarkably restrained. The Boundaries of Blackness is the first full-scale exploration of the social, political, and cultural impact of AIDS on the African-American communi