Earnest N. Bracey

Places in Political Time

Voices from the Black Diaspora

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Produktbeschreibung

Places in Political Time approaches the black African Diaspora phenomenon from a new perspective, considering cultural myths, history, allegories, and other stories, which present the human condition from a black American perspective. The essays describe and evaluate tough questions on racism and uncomfortable truths about people within the Black Diaspora, exploring how people of color interact with themselves and dominate cultures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9780761830528
• ISBN-10: 0761830529
• Artikelnr.: 21026810

Autorenporträt

Earnest N. Bracey is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and professor of political science and African-American history at College of Southern Nevada. He earned a doctorate from George Mason University and a PhD from Capella University. He is the author of Daniel 'Chappie' James, The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas and Miles Davis and Jazz as Religion.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 The Rise, Decline, and
Fall of H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) Chapter 4 Demystifying the
Rise of Black Islamic Fundamentalism and the Nation of Islam in the United
States Chapter 5 Analysis of a Racial Parasite: Back Judas: William
Hannibal Thomas and The American Negro Chapter 6 Decoding Black Nigeria's
Polti9cal and Military Climate in Tears of the Sun Chapter 7 Understanding
Islam in the Destruction of Black Civilizations in Africa: A Brief Overview
Chapter 8 Interpreting the Sameness in Japanese Writer Ryunosuke
Akutagawa's Kappa and Nigerian Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Chapter 9 Dissecting an Open Letter to Kenzaburo Oe: On a Black Man's
Discovery of a Japanese Writer Chapter 10 Fatal Lives: The Dispossessed
Aborigines in Australia Chapter 11 Suffer the Black Children: The Lives of
Two African American Civil Rights Icons and their Youngest Offspring
Chapter 12 The New Haitian Revolution Won't Be Televised: The Black Problem
of a West Indian Nation Revisited Chapter 13 Bibliography Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 15 About the Author