Jesse Owens secured his place as one of the most celebrated athletes of the twentieth-century after winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. This book examines the press coverage of th
Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book proposes an ethics of masculinity
This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.
This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and of
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed in April 1960 to advance civil rights. With a tremendous human rights mission facing them, the founding SNCC members included communication and pub
Explores the role of merchant seamen in sparking the struggle for US independence in such incidents as impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, and the Battle of Golden Hill, and describes the social wo
Demonstrates that elderly slaves contributed substantially to the creation and perpetuation of the unique African American culture and antebellum plantation society in the south. Two subthemes of this
