Focuses on the lives of three active and influential people: Cecil B Moore, advocate and agitator in the 'racial tinderbox' of black Philadelphia, Muhammad Ali, promoter of a 'colored' consciousness, and, Sammy Davis Jr, survivor of black vaudeville and liberator of black performers.
This book offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and general readers interested boxing. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of American studies and popular culture more generally.
First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text.
A sharply repackaged, paperback reissue of essays on ¿The Greatest, ¿ Muhammad Ali, timed to commemorate his 70th birthday, with an all-star roster of contributors and a fantastic 16-page photo insert.
This collection of a dozen essays examines Miles Davis in a cultural context. It explores the St. Louis jazz scene of his youth and East St. Louis's cultural history, it examines Davis and civil rights, and discusses Davis and his relation to the black avant-garde of the 1960s.
In this second book in the "Graywolf Forum Series", 13 writers examine the joy, obsession, and sacrifice of sports, ranging from baseball to boxing. Contributors include Jonis Agee, David Foster Wallace, James A. McPherson, and others.
Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing by African American authors-provocative works from an unprecedented and unforgettable year when truth was stranger (and more inspiring) than fiction. The galvanizing election of Barack Obama was on the minds-and the pages-of authors everywhere. Best African American Essays 2010 features the insights of writers from Juan Williams to Kelefa Sanneh an...
Renowned essayist Gerald L. Early revisits this volatile time in American history, when class, culture, and race ignited conflagrations of bitterness and hatred across the nation.
