... at contemporary as well as preexisting Hoodoo practice. It both asserts and assumes that the old Hoodoo religion was the African American “sacred canopy” and that certain aspects of black culture were once part of the old African American Hoodoo system. In this prescript, the author explains the process of his...

... neighborhood racial apartheid “The Police Raid” vignette Culture Shock Bahia race racial violence racial politics black culture Afro-paradise black bodies antiblack violence performance analytics racial democracy Grainy home videos show a young boy kicking high and bending low in a fast-paced...

... of black culture that was forced upon them by white masters. Beyond the development of the blackface minstrel show as a major form of entertainment, scenes of enslaved blacks performing became the staple setting for popular fiction as well as proslavery and antislavery texts. This project recognizes...

...Critics often characterize white consumption of African American culture as a form of theft that echoes the fantasies of 1950s-era bohemians, or “White Negroes,” who romanticized black culture as anarchic and sexually potent. This book claims such a view fails to describe the varied politics...

... lynching Mostern Kenneth Ross Diana sound medium “Strange Fruit” Holiday swing music Attali Jacques national belonging Bourke White Margaret blueswomen black culture racial difference black female sexuality racial segregation inequality American nationhood social loss Alberta Hunter...

... the Harlem Renaissance and place the development of black culture in a national and international context. The chapters also provoke explorations of renaissances in other cities. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender...

... Dr class interests and protégé to Daniel Hale Williams Johnson Fenton Johnson Kathryn Overton Anthony Robb Frederick H H Chicago Commission on Race Relations Negro Family in Chicago The 1929 World War I Bud Billiken club and parade African Americans Chicago Jazz Age black culture...

... under the guidance of Margaret Mead. It also explores his contributions to a core black ethnography and drylongso (a black English term meaning “ordinary” or “not unusual”) and to African American museology. He maintained that a “core black culture” existed in the US, centered around large family groups...

...This chapter examines politics and black culture in Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, a love story that also lays emphasis on the main character's education and its benefits to her and the plantation folk, as well as the novel idea of a woman as a community leader. Much...