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by Kevin K. Gaines. 314 pgs.

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Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Book by Kevin K. Gaines; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: African American Leadership--History--20th Century, African Americans--Cultural Assimilation--History--20th Century, African Americans--Politics And Government
...Americans--Cultural assimilation--History-- 20th century. 2. Afro-American...3. Afro-Americans--Politics...struggle for African Americans...many of its cultural and moral...aspects of our history, has affected African Americans for the worse...outlook for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction...American history, with disfranchisement...many black cultural elites, uplift...
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Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction
Book by Michele Mitchell; University of North Carolina Press, 2004
Subjects: African American Intellectuals--History, African American Political Activists--History, African Americans--History--1877-1964, African Americans--Politics And Government, African Americans--Race Identity, African Americans--Sexual Behavior, Human Reproduction--Political Aspects--United States--History, Sex Role--United States--History, Sex--Political Aspects--United States--History, United States--Race Relations
...ton, Arkansas, Ines Dargan kept her fathers example of leadership alive by filling out or supplying ACS applications to...that was slowly disappearing in other late-nineteenth-century black organizations contain- ing male and female members...emigrationist orga- nizations provided one arena in Afro-American public life that had potential for black women to be...people I have changed the name of our concern from the African emigration society to that of the independent order of...
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Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics: African Americans and Asian Americans - Vol. 1
Book by Jeffrey D. Schultz, Kerry L. Haynie, Anne M. McCulloch, Andrew L. Aoki; Oryx Press, 2000
Subjects: African Americans--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Asian Americans--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Hispanic Americans--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Indians Of North America--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, Minorities--United States--Political Activity--Encyclopedias, United States--Ethnic Relations--Encyclopedias, United States--Politics And Government--Encyclopedias, United States--Race Relations--Encyclopedias
...Liberation Day Movement The first conference of the independent African states was held in Accra, Ghana, on April 15, 1958. This...Afrocentricism is an attempt to right the imbalance of history teaching. In the eyes of its advocates, it is a righting...Afrocentric advocates believe have sold out the African-American cause. It is another example of "identity politics" at work...
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A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans
Book by Bernard L. Peterson Jr.; Greenwood Press, 1993
Subjects: African Americans In The Performing Arts--Dictionaries, African Americans--Music--Dictionaries, Musical Theater--United States--Dictionaries
A Century of Musicals in Black...About, or Involving African Americans BERNARD L. JR...significant in the history of the black American...ICCC Inner City Cultural Center Lib. Library...story relevant to African Americans. First prod. in the...plantation scene; the African primitive number...
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Cultural Portrayals of African Americans: Creating an Ethnic/Racial Identity
Book by Janis Faye Hutchinson; Bergin & Garvey, 1997
Subjects: African Americans In Mass Media--Congresses, African Americans In Popular Culture--Congresses, African Americans--Race Identity--Congresses
...Ecological and Physiological Adaptations in Indigenous South Americans . In P. T. Baker and J. S. Weiner, eds., The Biology...AddisonWesley. Gossett T. F. 1965. Race: The History of an Idea in America . New York: Schocken Books...inaccurate and derogatory images of people of Africa and of African descent. Such images, in addition to misinforming viewers...racist scholarship and racist popular literature. In the 20th century, however, they have been most efficiently propagated through...
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Childhood, the Body, and Race Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette Books for Black Children
Journal article by Katharine Capshaw Smith; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: African American children--Behavior, African American children--Portrayals, African American culture--History, African American culture--Influence, African Americans--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African Americans--Family, Children's etiquette--Influence, Children's etiquette--Works, Cultural identity--Influence, Etiquette for children and youth--Influence, Etiquette for children and youth--Works, Social life--Influence, Social life--Portrayals
...Performance: Early 20th-Century Etiquette...suggestion of cultural distinctiveness...235) to African Americans. Clearly...push for assimilation by embracing...taught Negro History that she...hospital for African Americans. An editor...For a full history of physiognomy...back to 19th-century apologists...who praised African Americans for supposed...
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Exploring a Century of Historical Scholarship on Booker T. Washington
Journal article by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 92, 2007
Subjects: African American leadership--Evaluation, African American leadership--History, African American studies--Criticism and interpretation, African American studies--History, African Americans--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Washington, Booker T.--Criticism and interpretation, Washington, Booker T.--Influence
...permeated the cultural consciousness...the status of African Americans because "we have...effect on human history." (33) Bond posited...upon nearly a century of historiography...forerunner for the mid-20th-century black...extremes of "total assimilation" and "complete...History of Negro Americans, Third Edition...Self-Determination: A Cultural History of African American Resistance...
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"Location, Location, Location": The Cultural Geography of African Americans-Introduction to a Journey
Journal article by V.P. Franklin; The Journal of African American History, 2002
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...position in the regeneration of the African continent in the 21st century? (20) In support of organized attempts...question, The Journal of African American History in this inaugural issue, and in future...the relations between U.S. African Americans and other oppressed African peoples...How did African and African American cultural beliefs and practices come to dominate...during the first three decades of the 20th century as a "Black mans utopia...
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Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements in the Global Context
Journal article by Asafa Jalata; Social Justice, Vol. 30, 2003
Subjects: African Americans--Analysis, American Colonization Society, Human Rights Watch, King, Martin Luther, Jr., Malcolm X, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, United Nations. Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, University of Nevada
...for over a century. Oromo nationalism...than that of African Americans. However...selective assimilation, colonized...Antebellum freed African Americans developed...half of the 20th century. These bodies...critical cultural studies that...domination. African American...half of the 20th century to marshal...Most African Americans moved to...
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Undermining Progress in Early 20th Century North Carolina: General Attitudes towards Delinquent African American Girls
Journal article by Tanya Smith Brice; Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, Vol. 34, 2007
Subjects: African American women--Social aspects, Domestic violence--Analysis, Family violence--Analysis, North Carolina--Social aspects
Undermining Progress in Early 20th Century North Carolina: General Attitudes towards Delinquent African American Girls. by Tanya Smith...community and by progressive whites. African Americans provided support through Sunday schools...African American girls, wrote of the history of Efland Home, in a less than flattering...
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Excerpt from the New 'Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century': Revised Edition of Black History Classic Says Blacks Colored and Shaped America's 20th Century
Magazine article by Lerone Jr. Bennett; Ebony, Vol. 58, July 2003
Subjects: Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century (Book)--Excerpts
...from the new Before the Mayflower: The African-American Century: revised edition of Black history classic says Blacks colored and shaped Americas 20th century. by Lerone Jr. Bennett...eighties and nineties, that African-Americans made their greatest strides since 1865...
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Black Politics in the Bush Era: Fallout from 2000 Will Continue -- MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN FLORIDA AS A CONTINUATION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE. THEY MAY RETALIATE BY TURNING OUT IN LARGE NUMBERS IN 2002
Magazine article by Ron Walters; The Nation, Vol. 272, April 30, 2001
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...from 2000 Will Continue -- MANY AFRICAN-AMERICANS SEE WHAT HAPPENED IN FLORIDA AS...and professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. His latest book, with Robert Smith, is African American Leadership (SUNY).
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Magazine article by Robert Trent Vinson; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 61, January 1998
Subjects: African Americans--Relations with South Africa, South Africa--History, Turner, Henry McNeal--Biography
...DeWaal, "American Black Residents and Visitors in the South African Republic Before 1899," South African Historical Journal...chapt 3. (17) Ibid., 100 (18) Ibid, 186. The value of American exports continued to decline until 1909, before a slight...Native Labour Contingent, 1916-1918," Journal of African History, 14:1 (1978). (22) Department of the Interior to Murphy...The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa (New York: Longman Inc., 1987), 224. (28...
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A Question of Freedom: African Americans and Ghanaian Independence
Magazine article by Roger A. Davidson Jr.; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 60, July 1997
Subjects: African Americans--Ghana, Independence Day (Ghana)--Rites and ceremonies, United States--Relations with Ghana
A question of freedom: African Americans and Ghanaian Independence...The article combined African history with contemporary opinions, announced...Ghana?" These articles discussed cultural, racial, economic, and political...
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Deserting the Democrats: Why African-Americans and the Poor Should Make Common Cause in Their Own Party
Magazine article by Tom Wicker; The Nation, Vol. 262, June 17, 1996
Subjects: African Americans--Political activity, Democratic Party--Social policy, Minorities--Political activity
Deserting the Democrats: Why African-Americans and the Poor Should Make Common Cause...Halfway through the twenty-first century, the U.S. population will be about evenly...together in amity, respecting one anothers history and culture, in a society in which the...
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Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 10, 2003
...Assessing Justice Brown; A neoconservative shift among African Americans. Byline: Joseph Norman Evans, SPECIAL TO THE...Brown is an iconoclast because she challenges the cultural elites perceived license over "how" and "who" defines...
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Planned Parenthood Decried as 'Racist'; Blacks, Pastors Push to 'Defund' Organization, Fire Employees
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 25, 2008
Subjects: African Americans--Political activity, African Americans--Political aspects, Planned Parenthood Federation of America--Political activity
...governments to fill the gap through which millions of Americans would fall without our support. Its time to stop playing...working together toward commonsense solutions to keep all Americans healthy and safe," it said. Planned Parenthoods annual...
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...interconnectedness of people and events is one of historys most fascinating topics. The Civil...1862, he was given command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry. The second-in-command...Blanche she was "interfering with government business." Mr. Plimpton was not only...
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