Art history Godly fruit in the modern era| The evangelical churchthe African American experienceand a redefinition of American folk art INDIANA UNIVERSITY Sarah Burns PuchnerEdward MWithin scholarship on the African American church and the early civil rights movement, few scholars investigate the voices...
The late 19th and early 20th-century vaudeville era sawAfrican-American performersmaking a comeback in an industry almost entirely without them. Vaudeville variety shows included comedy and dance, and Black entertainers such as Bert Williams and George Walker became national stars. In particular, Will...
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African-American studies argues for a multicultural interpretation of the Western Hemisphere rather than a Eurocentric one. It has its earliest roots in history, sociology, literature, and the arts. The field's most important concepts, methods, and findings to date are situated within these ...
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Historically, the African American family has been the subject of numerous studies in an attempt to understand its structure, survival, personal relationships, and status. Many of these studies focused on the perceived pathology or perceived dysfunctional nature of African American family life. The con...
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It boldly proposes that such writers as A. Philip Randolph, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, who often saw the world in terms of class struggle, did more to advance the ant...
Initially confined to the analysis of literature, intertextual theory has enlarged its scope of intervention to include film adaptation, painting, music and even the recent types of Web literacy. This paper argues that for well-known historical reasons, modern African literature, and more specifically...
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