Violet Showers Johnson, Gundolf Graml, Patricia Williams Lessan

Broschiertes Buch

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles

Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights

Herausgeber: Graml, Gundolf; Showers Johnson, Violet; Williams Lessane, Patricia

Beschreibung

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century.

Autor

Violet Showers Johnson is Associate Dean and Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. She is author of 'The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950' (Indiana University Press, 2006); co-author of 'African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America' (NYU Press, 2014); and co-editor of 'Western Fictions, Black Realities: Meanings of Blackness and Modernities' (Lit Verlag and Michigan State University Press, 2012). Gundolf Graml is Associate Professor and Director of German Studies at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, USA. Patricia Williams Lessane is Executive Director of The College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and tenured librarian at Addlestone Library.

Produktdetails

• FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies)
• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 233mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781800855793
• ISBN-10: 1800855796
• Artikelnr.: 62111193