Going through the storm : the influence of African American art in history / Sterling Stuckey.

Author/creator Stuckey, Sterling
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©1994.
Descriptionx, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Through the prism of folklore : the black ethos in slavery -- Remembering Denmark Vesey -- "Ironic tenacity" : Frederick Douglass's seizure of the dialectic -- The skies of consciousness : African dance at Pinkster in New York, 1750-1840 -- Classical black nationalist thought -- A last stern struggle : Henry Highland Garnet and liberation theory -- Black Americans and African consciousness : Du Bois, Woodson, and the spell of Africa -- The poetry of Sterling A. Brown -- The death of Benito Cereno : a reading of Herman Melville on slavery -- "Follow your leader" : the theme of cannibalism in Melville's Benito Cereno -- "I want to be African" : Paul Robeson and the ends of nationalist theory and practice, 1914-1945 -- Paul Robeson's Here I stand -- Toward a history of blacks in North America -- Going through the storm : the great singing movements of the sixties.
Local noteLittle-290793--305130043761X
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 93003238
ISBN019507677X
ISBN019508604X (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks NX512.3.A35 S78 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold