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Booker T. Washington in Perspective - Essays of Louis R. Harlan - Bok av Raymond W. Smock - Häftad

This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader.

SEK 600.00

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Creating the Jazz Solo - Louis Armstrong and Barbershop Harmony - Bok av Vic Hobson - Häftad

Throughout his life, Louis Armstrong tried to explain how singing with a barbershop quartet on the streets of New Orleans was foundational to his musicianship. Creating the Jazz Solo shows that Armstrong understood exactly the relationship between what he sang and what he played, and that he he was singing through his horn.

SEK 530.00

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Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans - The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey - Bok av Melissa Daggett - Inbunden

Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism. Melissa Daggett focuses on Le Cercle Harmonique, the francophone seance circle of Henry Louis Rey (1831-1894), a Creole of colour who was a key civil rights activist, author, and Civil War and Reconstruction leader.

SEK 1680.00

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Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans - The Life and Times of Henry Louis Rey - Bok av Melissa Daggett - Häftad

Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism. Melissa Daggett focuses on Le Cercle Harmonique, the francophone séance circle of Henry Louis Rey, a a key civil rights activist, author, and Civil War and Reconstruction leader.

SEK 476.00

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Peculiar Rhetoric - Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement - Bok av Bjorn F. Stillion Southard - Inbunden

Probes the complex issues of identity confronting free blacks who attempted to meaningfully engage in colonization efforts. From a peculiarly voiced \\Counter Memorial\\ against the ACS to the letters of wealthy black merchant Louis Sheridan, Stillion Southard brings to light the intricate rhetoric of blacks who addressed colonization to Africa.

SEK 2016.00

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Peculiar Rhetoric - Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement - Bok av Bjorn F. Stillion Southard - Häftad

Probes the complex issues of identity confronting free blacks who attempted to meaningfully engage in colonization efforts. From a peculiarly voiced \\Counter Memorial\\ against the ACS to the letters of wealthy black merchant Louis Sheridan, Stillion Southard brings to light the intricate rhetoric of blacks who addressed colonization to Africa.

SEK 650.00

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She Damn Near Ran the Studio - The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman - Bok av Jacqueline R. Braitman - Inbunden

Best known as the woman who \ran MGM\, Ida Koverman served as talent scout, mentor, executive secretary, and confidant to American movie mogul Louis B. Mayer for twenty-five years. This book offers the first full account of Koverman's life and the story of how she became a formidable politico and a creative powerhouse during Hollywood's Golden Era.

SEK 666.00

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Unexpected Places - Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature - Bok av Eric Gardner - Inbunden

Recovers the work of early African American authors and editors such as Elisha Weaver who have been left off maps drawn by historians and literary critics. Individual chapters restore to consideration black literary locations in antebellum St. Louis, antebellum Indiana, Reconstruction-era San Francisco, and several sites tied to the Philadelphia-based Recorder during and after the Civil War.

SEK 850.00

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Curt Flood in the Media - Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete - Bok av Abraham Iqbal Khan - Inbunden

Examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood (1938-1997), the star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. Khan examines the ways in which the media constructed Flood's persona. By examining the mainstream press, the black press, and primary sources, Khan exposes the complexities of what it means to be a prominent black American athlete - in 1969 and today.

SEK 1610.00

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Free Jazz/Black Power - Bok av Philippe Carles - Inbunden

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains indispensable to the study of the relation of American free jazz to European audiences, critics, and artists. This monumental critique caught the spirit of its time and also realigned that zeitgeist.

SEK 1646.00

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Curt Flood in the Media - Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete - Bok av Abraham Iqbal Khan - Häftad

Examines the public discourse surrounding Curt Flood, the star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals throughout the sixties. In 1969, Flood was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies. By examining the mainstream press, the black press, and primary sources, including Flood's autobiography, Khan exposes the complexities of what it means to be a prominent black American athlete - in 1969 and today.

SEK 580.00

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Zachary Scott - Bok av Ronald L. Davis - Häftad

Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and the indolent husband in Mildred Pierce. He garnered further acclaim for his portrayal of villains in Her Kind of Man, Danger Signal, and South of St. Louis. Although he earned critical praise for his performance as a heroic tenant farmer in Jean Renoir's The Southerner, Scott never quite escaped typecasting.In..

SEK 496.00

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