Bücher der Reihe Studies in African American History and Culture

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.

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.

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

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

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)

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.