... originate in academia and who viewed the lived experience of black people as the best route to overcome the problems of black America. Black intellectualism Malcolm X Nation of Islam NOI Carmichael Stokely Kwame Touré Newton Huey Paraintellectuals Spivak Gayatri Fanon Frantz Cuffee Paul Forten...

...This chapter chronicles the US Navy Steel Band's twelve-country tour of South America as ambassadors for the People-to-People initiative. Beyond the length and physical distance covered, the South American tour of 1960 is a prime example of the diplomatic power and public relations brilliance...

... The White Josh American Youth for Democracy American Russian Institute Bernstein Leonard Civil Rights Congress Communist Party of America Congress of Soviet American Friendship Copland Aaron Dyer Bennet John Dyer Bennet Miriam Jr Dyer Bennet Miriam Wolcott Clapp Gropper William Hammet Dashiell...

...This chapter focuses on the history of the banjo, mandolin, and guitar (BMG) movement in America, and identifies commercial changes that played a significant role in the movement’s popularity. These include industrialized mass production, newly invented advertising techniques, and a burgeoning...

...This chapter focuses on the emergence of a new generation of guitarists in America during the late nineteenth century, and explains that four figures who appeared in the banjo, mandolin, and guitar (BMG) literature and programs are recognized as important performers, composers, and teachers...

...This chapter focuses on the evolution of the guitar in America in the early twentieth century. It describes hybrid instruments that influenced the history of the guitar in America and highlights some of the changes made to the guitar, which include its increased size, larger lower bout, and more...

...This chapter focuses on the role of Vahdah Olcott-Bickford and William Foden in the history of guitar in America. It explains that Olcott-Bickford was considered the Grand Lady of the Guitar and Foden The Wizard of the Guitar. The chapter suggests that Foden’s overwhelming technical mastery of his...

...This chapter refutes the common narrative that Bolívar saw Haiti only as a negative model for the independent Latin America he envisioned, arguing that his attitudes toward the Caribbean nation were much more complicated. It makes a case for the contribution of Haitian political thought...

...America’s decision to enter World War II further highlighted the contradictions between the nation’s democratic rhetoric and the reality of its segregated society. These contradictions that gave rise to the modern African American civil rights movement led by an African American press. Because...

...Julius Lips was among the fifty-one political refugees who fled Nazi-controlled Germany and Austria and sought asylum in America, where they eventually taught in nineteen historically black colleges located mainly in the South. This chapter focuses on Lips’s academic career at Howard University...

... transformation brought about in America by the civil rights movement. African American soldiers Ebony Hughes Langston Malcolm X Massaquoi Hans Jürgen white supremacy Douglass Frederick segregation Third Reich Truth Sojourner Destined to Witness Massaquoi Hänschen Klein Ging Allein … Massaquoi Honneth...

... of “blackness,” America, and processes of Americanization are reconfigured by the presence of “black” bodies, and how such black bodies emerged as a new means through which America could be accessed and Germany occupied. The chapter also looks at the depiction of German women as naively romantic and ignorant...

...Between the two eras during which Pennywise has been at the fore of our nightmares—between Reagan and now, between the period of Morning in America and this strange Mourning Period in America—lies a landscape of fear appropriately peopled (or monstered) by clowns. In the disruptive, yet generative...

... with images and characters that appear in popular science fiction. Davis argues that for O’Connor, the vocabulary of science fiction provides a way to both explore and critique the promises and effects of technological progress in the context of Cold War America. gothic science fiction Adams Robert Bacon...

... that would create a lasting name for themselves and for Filipinos in America. government Philippine government United States newspapers Panama Pacific International Exposition PPIE benefit concerts civilization discourse concerts independence Philippine Jones Bill Loving Walter H Markwyn Abigail...

...During World War II, superhero comics achieved a degree of cultural legitimacy by becoming an unofficial instrument of U.S. propaganda that promotes America as a democratic, virtuous, and unified country. For example, Marvel Comics’ Captain America, along with the American...

... magazines popularized adventure novels written by hacks in exchange for a sum. This chapter examines the birth of comic magazines that gave rise to an industry between 1936 and 1940 and became an established product of popular publishing in America. It looks at three factors that were responsible...

...This book has shown that the cultural history of comic books in America is not limited to the history of publishers. Instead, cultural products correspond to a public that uses them in a variety of ways. Since the 1950s, the comic book industry has witnessed a transformation of its readers...

... of power” to wage the Cold War. An important component of such an initiative was jazz diplomacy, which transformed relations between America and the Soviet Union while dramatically reshaping perceptions of the American identity worldwide. Paradoxically, jazz diplomacy also came to symbolize the cultural...

..., they dreamed of becoming the most important novelists of twentieth-century America, at a time when the writing of the “great American novel” was still the goal of every aspiring author. Amid arguments in New York City in the early years of their friendship, and what seemed like an unattainable goal, Holmes...