Bücher der Reihe Studies in African American History and Culture

Analyzes how American prison narratives reflect and produce ideologies of masculinity in the United States. This book puts various subgenres of prison narratives into a dialogue in order to demonstrate a polar dichotomy in the institutional and public discourses of criminality.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

As both a preeminent scholar of Balck Angelican and Episcopalians and devout parishoner, the late James Hewitt writes an illuminus hsitory of one of the most famous black congregrations in America. From its humble beginnings, St. Philip''s originated from classes conducted by Elais Neau and other Angelic clerks for the society for the propagations of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. From these cateisem classes emerged a higly educated, African-American group comprised of free and enslaved blacks. W.E.B Dubuois hailed it as the foundation for the Talented Tenth in his classic book Souls of Balck Folk After the American Revolution, St. Philip''s has since becoem the church of middle-class blacks across New York City. Hewlitt''s careful and percise scholarship chronicles over two centuries of of the church''s history, which fills a significant lagun in African-American Religious history.

A study of neighborhood community change in the northeastern section of Washington, DC. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the destabilization of this previously stable, working- and middle- class black community. Examines efforts of some community members to form mediating insti

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This interdisciplinary and creative study examines how African American culture is presented in American films and other media. The author examines and interprets a number of cultural texts deriving memory as interpreted by Freud and by Franz Fanon, mixed with Black Liberation Theology and Islamic mysticism.

Looking at the communities of Central and West Harlem in New York City, this study explores the locus, form and significance of socioeconomic differentiation for African American professional-managerial workers.

This book examines, acknowledges and records the journalism careers and contributions of four black women who have been virtually ignored in the history of black and maistream press.

Exploring the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation, this text looks at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the 19th century.

Tracing the movement of African American filmmakers and images, as they move from the margins to the mainstream of American cinema, the author writes a cogent history of African American participation in the American film industry.

This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's peoples and then relates these findings to the novels of Toni Morrison.

Based on careful reading of Du Bois' writings, the author probes the reasons and dynamics behind the changes of Du Bois strategies concerning the solution to the American race problem.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

An Afrocentric examination of relations between African Americans and American Indians in Colonial Virginia, this book discusses issues of oppression, people as profit aswell as Epic Memory DuBois's famous "double consiousness".

This book evaluates Carl Van Vechten's contribution to the Harlem Renaissance by presenting hitherto unexamined documentary evidence. The author draws on correspondence, manuscripts, personal memorabilia, and published materials to examine the origins and development of the period in the 1920s which was termed the "New Negro Renaissance."In the later years of the 1920s, as a result of the success of his novel, "Nigger Heaven," Carl Van Vechten received extensive publicity associating him with Harlem and with the Harlem Renaissance. The vehement controversy which the book aroused among African American critics and the black press, who attacked it, and the African American authors and friends of Van Vechten who defended it, obscured the true extent of Van Vechten's role in the Harlem Renaissance. This study sheds light on the Van Vechten controversy which has continued to the present day.(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1969; revised with new preface)

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Using oral history interviews with forty-four former teachers from the Jim Crow era, local and state archival materials, and secondary historical sources, the author examines the surprising counter-memories of students, teachers, and community members who recall these schools not as being inferior, but as being of sufficient quality.

Examines a number of blaxploitation films. This work includes "Cotton Comes to Harlem" (1970), "Blacula" (1972), and "The Mack" (1973). It also illustrates the manner in which 'blaxploitation' came to be understood as a separate genre.

Aims to document the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution the Negro American League in 1957.

Explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic.

An examination of the leadership of three African American women administrators in higher education, this title explores how they have used their spirituality as a lens to lead in the academy.

Analyzes black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. This work furthers our understanding of the historical circumstances that are influencing contemporary representations of black subjects that are purposefully derogatory and documents the consequences of these images.

Exploring twentieth-century African American writing in light of critical reconsiderations of American modernism, this book focuses on the poetry of Langston Hughes and Michael S Harper, and the fiction of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray.

This study examines the narrated life experiences of 11 African American intellectual-activists. An intellectual-activist is defined as a person whose education has provided him or her with a body of knowledge to which he/she is continually adding (intellectual self) and who works daily for, or has a career dedicated to, the betterment of African American people (activist self). The study explores the ways in which the subjects developed this positive self-concept, how this self-concept influenced the goals of their activism, and how they define progress toward these goals.

Examining the cultural and educational history of central Missouri between 1820 and 1860, this work focuses on the issue of master-slave relationships and how they affected education.