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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Peculiar Citizenships -- One. Freedom in a Bondsmaid's Arms Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the Persistence of African American Memory -- Two. The Milder and More Amusing Phases of Slavery Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Satire -- Three. A Race of Angels (Trans)Nationalism, African American Tourism, and the Slave Forts -- Four. What Have We Done to Weigh So Little on Their Scale Mnemonic Restitution and the Aesthetics of Racial Reparations -- Epilogue. The President's House, Freedom, and Slavery in the Age of Obama -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Vol. 1. - 1997. - XIII,176 S. : Lit.Hinw.; Vol. 2. - 1998. - XII,208 S. : Lit.Hinw

Beyond the Voting Rights Act movingly recounts over 30 years of contemporary voting rights battles in the United States from the 1980s to the present day. The book places in context the modern-day battles against voter suppression laws that were embedded in American history and are still underway across the country. It tells a story of that struggle from the author's perspective beginning as a young African American from Cleveland in the 1980s, who reluctantly became involved within this movement as a student activist and inadvertently rose to become an integral part of the ultimate legislative victory

Introduction: Archipelagic American studies: decontinentalizing the study of American culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens -- Theories and methods for an Archipelagic American studies -- Heuristic geographies: territories and areas, islands and archipelagoes / Lanny Thompson -- Imagining the archipelago / Elaine Stratford -- Archipelagic mappings and meta-geographies -- Guam and Archipelagic American studies / Craig Santos Perez -- The Archipelagic black global imaginary: Walter White's Pacific Island hopping / Etsuko Taketani -- It takes an archipelago to compare otherwise / Susan Gillman -- Empires and archipelagoes -- Colonial and Mexican archipelagoes: reimagining Colonial Caribbean studies / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel -- Invisible islands: remapping the transpacific archipelago of US Empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart / Joseph Keith -- Myth of the continents: American vulnerabilities and Rum and Coca-cola? / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis -- Islands of resistance -- Shades of paradise: Craig Santos Perez's transpacific voyages / John Carlos Rowe -- Insubordinate islands and coastal chaos: Pauline Hopkins's literary land/seascapes / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- We are not American: competing rhetorical archipelagoes in Hawai / Brandy N'lani McDougall -- Ecologies of relation -- Performing archipelagic identities in Bill Reid, Robert Sullivan, and Syaman Rapongan / Hsinya Huang -- Archipelagic trash: despised forms in the cultural history of the Americas / Ramcentn E. Soto-Crespo -- The great Pacific garbage patch as metaphor: the (American) pacific you can't see / Alice Te Punga Somerville -- Insular imaginaries -- The tropics of Josephine: space, time, and hybrid movements / Matthew Pratt Guterl -- The stranger by the shore: the archipelization of Caliban in Antillean theatre / J. Michael Dash -- Migrating identities, moving borders -- The Governors-general: Caribbean Canadian and Pacific New Zealand success stories / Birte Blascheck and Teresia Teaiwa -- Living the West Indian dream: archipelagic cosmopolitanism and triangulated economies of desire in Jamaican popular culture / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo -- Offshore identities: ruptures in the 300-second average handling time / Allan Punzalan Isaac -- Afterword the archipelagic accretion / Paul Giles

In King's Vibrato Maurice O. Wallace explores the sonic character of Martin Luther King Jr.'s voice and its power to move the world. Providing a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes that helped inform King's vocal timbre, Wallace shows how the qualities of King's voice depended on a mix of ecclesial architecture and acoustics, musical instrumentation and sound technology, audience and song. He examines the acoustical architectures of the African American churches where King spoke and the centrality of the pipe organ in these churches, offers a black feminist critique of the influence of gospel on King, and outlines how variations in natural environments and sound amplifications made each of King's three deliveries of the "I Have a Dream" speech unique. By mapping the vocal timbre of one of the most important figures of black hope and protest in American history, Wallace presents King as the embodiment of the sound of modern black thought

"Insufficient attention has been given to the environment in Africana studies within the academy. In Greening Africana Studies, Rubin Patterson initiates an important conversation explaining why and how the gap between these two disciplines can and should be bridged. His comprehensive book calls for a green African transnationalism and focuses on the mission and major paradigms that identify the respective curriculum, research interests, and practices. In his original work, Patterson demonstrates the ways in which black communities are harmed by local environmental degradation and global climate change. He shows that many local unwanted land use sites (LULUs), such as brownfields and toxic release inventory facilities, are disproportionately located in close proximity to neighborhoods of color, but also to colleges and universities with Africana studies programs. Arguing that such communities are not aggressively engaging in environmental issues, Greening Africana Studies also provides examples of how Africana studies students as well as members of black communities can prepare for green careers"--

Anglo-American Cultural Studies kombiniert eine Einführung in die traditionellen Kategorien der Landeskunde mit einer Darstellung wichtiger Schlüsselthemen der modernen Kulturwissenschaften, wie sie in den anglistischen und amerikanistischen Studiengängen gelehrt werden.Das Arbeitsbuch dient als Grundlage für universitäre Einführungskurse und ist ebenso zum Selbststudium, zur Wiederholung und zur Prüfungsvorbereitung geeignet. Der Band ist in englischer Sprache verfasst und auf die Gegebenheiten an Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum zugeschnitten.

Who are the "race men" standing for black America? It is a question Hazel Carby rejects, along with its long-standing assumption: that a particular type of black male can represent the race. A searing critique of definitions of black masculinity at work in American culture, Race Men shows how these defining images play out socially, culturally, and politically for black and white society--and how they exclude women altogether. Carby begins by looking at images of black masculinity in the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Her analysis of The Souls of Black Folk reveals the narrow and rigid code of masculinity that Du Bois applied to racial achievement and advancement--a code that remains implicitly but firmly in place today in the work of celebrated African American male intellectuals. The career of Paul Robeson, the music of Huddie Ledbetter, and the writings of C. L. R. James on cricket and on the Haitian revolutionary, Toussaint L'Ouverture, offer further evidence of the social and political uses of representations of black masculinity. In the music of Miles Davis and the novels of Samuel R. Delany, Carby finds two separate but related challenges to conventions of black masculinity. Examining Hollywood films, she traces through the career of Danny Glover the development of a cultural narrative that promises to resolve racial contradictions by pairing black and white men--still leaving women out of the picture. A powerful statement by a major voice among black feminists, Race Men holds out the hope that by understanding how society has relied upon affirmations of masculinity to resolve social and political crises, we can learn to transcend them