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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...
Reconstruction in Literature and Intellectual Culture
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Reconstruction in Literature and Intellectual CultureIntroductionThe era widely known as Reconstruction runs from 1865, the official end of the Civil ...
Reparations and the African Diaspora
Raymond Winbush
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Reparations and the African DiasporaIntroductionReparations are compensatory mechanisms devised by victims of crimes against humanity; paid by nations...
Revolutionary War and African Americans, The
Jessica Millward
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
The Revolutionary War and African AmericansIntroductionDespite the prolific growth in the field of African American studies, scholarship on African Am...
Robeson, Paul
Eric Jackson
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Paul RobesonIntroductionMany intellectuals describe Paul Robeson as one of the nation’s greatest musicians, scholars, actors, athletes, and activists ...
Scottsboro Trials
Eric S. Yellin
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Scottsboro TrialsIntroductionIn 1931, nine young African-American men were accused of raping two white women in northern Alabama while traveling on a ...
Settler Colonialism and African Americans
Tiffany King
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Settler Colonialism and African AmericansIntroductionEmerging from the ranks of white settler scholars in Australia and New Zealand in the mid-2000s, ...
Simone, Nina
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Nina SimoneIntroductionOne of the preeminent protest musicians of America’s civil rights movement, Nina Simone (b. 1933–d. 2003) was a trailblazing si...
Slavery, Visual Representations of
Renee Ater
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Visual Representations of SlaveryIntroductionFrom the first encounters of Africans and Europeans to the transatlantic slave trade to the abolition of ...
Smith, Bessie
Melanie R. Hill
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Bessie SmithIntroductionUnderstanding the literary pen as a fundamental tool that writes the narrative of black existence while also analyzing how the...
Social Science and Civil Rights
Ben Keppel
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Social Science and Civil RightsIntroductionConsidered from within the prism of American history, the terms social science and civil rights, when combi...
Speculative Fiction
Esther L. Jones
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Speculative FictionIntroductionSpeculative fiction is a cover term for a diverse range of genres, linked by their utilization of nonrealist narrative ...
Theater and Performance in the 19th Century
Douglas Jones, Amadi Ozier
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Theater and Performance in the 19th CenturyIntroductionTheater and performance of the long 19th century (1789–1914) is one of the most dynamic fields ...
Theater in the 20th Century
Stacie McCormick
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Theater in the 20th CenturyIntroductionBlack theater in the 20th century comprises a wide array of dramatic productions by black Americans growing out...
Till, Emmett, The Lynching of
Christopher Metress
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
The Lynching of Emmett TillIntroductionIn August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till left his home in Chicago to visit his extended southern family in...
Tricksters in African, African American, and Caribbean Folktales and Cultures
Babacar M'Baye
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Tricksters in African, African American, and Caribbean Folktales and CulturesIntroductionThe trickster is one of the most complex and widespread arche...
Underground Railroad
Loren Schweninger
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Underground RailroadIntroductionThe Underground Railroad refers to efforts of “conductors” and “station masters” assisting slave “passengers” to escap...
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