The Rising Son

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Genre : African Americans
Author : William Wells Brown
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Release : 1874
File : 576 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:30000115269890


The Rising Son Or The Antecedents And Advancement Of The Colored Race

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Genre : African Americans
Author : William Wells Brown
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Release : 1882
File : 576 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCD:31175028738667


The Rising Son

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Genre : African Americans
Author : William Wells Brown
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Release : 1874
File : 590 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044024355513


Race And Racism In Nineteenth Century Art

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Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821–1872) and Edward Bannister (1828–1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844–1907) each became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art makers of color during the antebellum period, they experienced numerous incidents of racism that severely hampered their pursuits of a profession that many in the mainstream considered the highest form of social cultivation. Despite barriers imposed upon them due to their racial inheritance, these artists shared a common cause in demanding acceptance alongside their white contemporaries as capable painters and sculptors on local, regional, and international levels. Author Naurice Frank Woods Jr. provides an in-depth examination of the strategies deployed by Duncanson, Bannister, and Lewis that enabled them not only to overcome prevailing race and gender inequality, but also to achieve a measure of success that eventually placed them in the top rank of nineteenth-century American art. Unfortunately, the racism that hampered these three artists throughout their careers ultimately denied them their rightful place as significant contributors to the development of American art. Dominant art historians and art critics excluded them in their accounts of the period. In this volume, Woods restores their artistic legacies and redeems their memories, introducing these significant artists to rightful, new audiences.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Naurice Frank Woods Jr.
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release : 2021-06-28
File : 253 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781496834362


Hampton Institute

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Compiled by Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe E. Lewis.

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Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
Release : 1940
File : 355 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781623760663


Black American Writers

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2015-12-25
File : 226 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781349814367


Clotel

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As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the post—Uncle Tom’s Cabin “mania” for abolitionist fiction in Great Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849 and 1854. The novel tells the story of Clotel and Althesa, the fictional daughters of Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave. Like the popular and entertaining public lectures that Brown gave in England and America, Clotel is a series of startling, attention-grabbing narrative “attractions.” Brown creates in this novel a delivery system for these attractions in an effort to draw as many readers as possible toward anti-slavery and anti-racist causes. Rough, studded with caricatures, and intimate with the racism it ironizes, Clotel is still capable of creating a potent mix of discomfort and delight. This edition aims to make it possible to read Clotel in something like its original cultural context. Geoffrey Sanborn’s Introduction discusses Brown’s extensive plagiarism of other authors in composing Clotel, as well as his narrative strategies within the novel itself. Appendices include material on slave auctions, contemporary attractions and amusements, and the topic of plagiarism more broadly.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Broadview Press
Release : 2016-05-02
File : 282 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781460405444


Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman is one of America’s most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History tells the fascinating story of Tubman’s life as an American icon. The distinguished historian Milton C. Sernett compares the larger-than-life symbolic Tubman with the actual “historical” Tubman. He does so not to diminish Tubman’s achievements but rather to explore the interplay of history and myth in our national consciousness. Analyzing how the Tubman icon has changed over time, Sernett shows that the various constructions of the “Black Moses” reveal as much about their creators as they do about Tubman herself. Three biographies of Harriet Tubman were published within months of each other in 2003–04; they were the first book-length studies of the “Queen of the Underground Railroad” to appear in almost sixty years. Sernett examines the accuracy and reception of these three books as well as two earlier biographies first published in 1869 and 1943. He finds that the three recent studies come closer to capturing the “real” Tubman than did the earlier two. Arguing that the mythical Tubman is most clearly enshrined in stories told to and written for children, Sernett scrutinizes visual and textual representations of “Aunt Harriet” in children’s literature. He looks at how Tubman has been portrayed in film, painting, music, and theater; in her Maryland birthplace; in Auburn, New York, where she lived out her final years; and in the naming of schools, streets, and other public venues. He also investigates how the legendary Tubman was embraced and represented by different groups during her lifetime and at her death in 1913. Ultimately, Sernett contends that Harriet Tubman may be America’s most malleable and resilient icon.

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Genre : History
Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release : 2007-11-05
File : 431 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780822390275


Pauline E Hopkins

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Republished here for the first time, it establishes Hopkins as an early advocate of black nationalism and one of the few women writers who joined the discourse on this topic."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Hanna Wallinger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release : 2005
File : 383 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780820327044


Chaotic Justice

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What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship. With this book, he creates a new and just retelling of African American literary history that neither ignores nor transcends racial history. Ernest revisits the work of nineteenth-century writers and activists such as Henry "Box" Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, William Wells Brown, and Sojourner Truth, demonstrating that their concepts of justice were far more radical than those imagined by most white sympathizers. He sheds light on the process of reading, publishing, studying, and historicizing this work during the twentieth century. Looking ahead to the future of the field, Ernest offers new principles of justice that grant fragmented histories, partial recoveries, and still-unprinted texts the same value as canonized works. His proposal is both a historically informed critique of the field and an invigorating challenge to present and future scholars.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Release : 2009-11-15
File : 329 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807898505