African American Studies - I - Oxford Bibliographies
Incarceration
Carlos E. Monteiro, Natasha A. Frost
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
IncarcerationIntroductionBetween the mid-1970s and the late 2000s, prison and jail populations across the United States increased in virtually every y...
Johnson, James Weldon
Noelle Morrissette
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
James Weldon JohnsonIntroductionFlorida lawyer, Broadway lyricist, US diplomat, poet, journalist, National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...
Liberation Theology
Anthony B. Bradley
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Liberation TheologyIntroductionLiberation theology generally refers to a theology applied to the core concerns of marginalized communities in need of ...
Literacy
Heidi Morse
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
LiteracyIntroductionLiteracy has meant different things to different people over the past several centuries in America, from constituting the first tw...
Lynching
Thomas Alan Dichter
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
LynchingIntroductionAlthough the term’s definition has long been contested, “lynching” generally refers to an act of punishment (usually lethal) enact...
Middle Class, Black
David J. Leonard
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Black Middle ClassIntroductionThe middle class is traditionally defined by income: while adjusted for inflation, those making from $39,100 to $62,000 ...
Moore, Audley
Ashley Farmer
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Audley MooreIntroductionAudley Moore (b. 1898–d. 1997) was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, to St. Cyr and Ella Moore and had a relatively happy girlhoo...
Morrision, Toni
jan furman
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Toni MorrisonIntroductionNovelist, essayist, librettist, book editor, teacher, scholar, and public intellectual, Toni Morrison was a major contributor...
Muslims, Black
Samory Rashid
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Black MuslimsIntroductionThis article offers an updated assessment of the literature on black Muslims examining recent developments related to black M...
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Patrick Breen
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Nat Turner’s RebellionIntroductionIn Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner and six other men launched the deadliest slave revolt in the history of ...
Native Americans and African Americans
Kendra Field
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Native Americans and African AmericansIntroductionSince the mid-20th century, a significant literature has developed at the intersection of Native Ame...
Negro League Baseball
Leslie Heaphy
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Negro League BaseballIntroductionThe history of the Negro Leagues has been studied and written about by those in academia but also by many outside the...
New African Diaspora
Heike Raphael-Hernandez
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
New African DiasporaIntroductionAlso called the Second African Diaspora, postcolonial African Diaspora, or Fourth Great Migration, the New African Dia...
New Negro
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
New NegroIntroductionAs the modest, meaningful gains of Reconstruction deteriorated into the racialized apartheid of Jim Crow segregation, an ideology...
Newton, Huey P.
Joe Street
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Huey P. NewtonIntroductionHuey Percy Newton (b. 1942–d. 1989) is a singular figure in African American history. Born in Monroe, Louisiana to Armelia J...
No Child Left Behind
Stuart Greene, Kevin Burke
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
No Child Left BehindIntroductionFulfilling the promise of Brown v. Board of Education has remained central to the struggle for civil rights in educati...
Pan-Africanism
Omolade Adunbi
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Pan-AfricanismIntroductionPan-Africanism encompasses a variety of historical, political, literary, and cultural movements seeking to draw connections ...
Parks, Rosa
Jeanne Theoharis
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Rosa ParksIntroductionOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. Her courageous action galvaniz...
Political Resistance
Sampada Aranke
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Political ResistanceIntroductionThinking about political resistance requires an understanding of both what constitutes the political and its various a...
Print Culture
Heidi Morse
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Print CultureIntroductionPrint culture—or cultures of print, a designation some scholars prefer for its evocation of multiple and varying practices of...
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