1 Are African American books meant for a black public only, remaining a targeted product for an ethnic niche? Or do they reach a mainstream white public and if so, how? Is the racial factor then a liability that has to be overcome or a key element of the book's potential success?
Any of several forms of popular music that combine various African music styles with elements of Western popular music, often with electronically amplified instrumentation. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co...
popularise,popularize- make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" disseminate,pass around,circulate,diffuse,broadcast,circularise,circularize,spread,disperse,propagate,distribute- cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "bro...
Love, Motherhood and the African Heritage by Femi Nzegwu African Renaissance, Senegal Manning the Nation edited by Robert Muponde, Kizito Z. Muchemwa Weaver Press, Zimbabwe Masculinities in Contemporary Africa edited by Egodi Uchendu CODESRIA, Senegal Mass Media and Democratisation in Cam...
100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History This popular book isn’t stand-alone but part of a series. It’s devoted to a hundred African-Americans who had influenced America throughout the centuries. There’s a biography for each of these people, arranged in chronological order, describin...
Ellis (born 1937), author, art historian and director of the Honolulu Museum of Art George Edward Ellis (1814–1894), Unitarian clergyman and historian George Viner Ellis (1812–1900), British anatomist George Washington Ellis (1875–1919), African American attorney, writer, and speaker ...
Shane White, “‘It Was a Proud Day’: African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North, 1741–1834,” The Journal of American History 81.1 (1994): 13–50. Article Google Scholar See Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (New York: Oxford...
When it comes to the most popular hobbies in the United States, cooking / baking tops the list. Around 41 percent of the respondents in our survey like to cook or bake, followed by another 36 percent of the consumers who like to read. Also included in this list are pets, video gaming...
which achieved great sophistication in the hands of such American composers asJerome Kern,George Gershwin,Irving Berlin,Cole Porter,Richard Rodgers, andOscar Hammerstein II. In the meantime, beginning with ragtime in the 1890s,black Americanshad begun combining complex African rhythms with European harm...
In a stunning revision of radical politics during the Popular Front period, Bill Mullen redefines the cultural renaissance of the 1930s and early 1940s as the fruit of an extraordinary rapprochement between African-American and white members of the U.S. Left struggling to create a new 'American...