Overview

"This collection of essays focuses on black resistance patterns in literature, humour, art, cinema, history, and science, from the antebellum South to contemporary Brooklyn. Essays include: Elderly Female Slaves of the Antebellum South: Stabilizers and Resisters; Throwing Off the Slaveholder: Free Black Ohioans and the Civil War; Resistance to European Conquest of Africa; ""Ode to Ethiopia"": Challenging the Color Line Through Alliance Building, Yet Preserving the Soul, the Early Resistance Strategy of Paul Laurence Dunbar; Causes of the Atlanta Riot of 1906; The Protest Against ""Insult"": Black Soldiers, World War II, and the ""War"" for ""Democracy"" at Home; Ambivalent Allies: African Americans and American Jews After World War II; Malcolm X, David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison: Gaining Freedom ""By Any Means Necessary""; Resisting European Christianity: The Rise of Black Holiness-Pentecostal Culture in Brooklyn; African-American Humor: Resistance and Retaliation; Completing the Picture: African Americans and Independent Cinema: An Urban Genre Case Study."

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Author:   Felton O'Neal Best
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Volume:   Vol 38
ISBN:  

9780773490536

ISBN 10:   0773490531
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   July 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Elderly female slaves of the Antellum South - stabilizers and resisters, Stacey K. Close; throwing off the slaveholder - free black Ohioans and the civil war, Felton O. Best; resistance to European conquest of Africa, Don C. Ohadike; ""ode to Ethiopia"" - challeging the colour line through alliance building, yet preseving the soul, the ealry resistance strategy of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Felton O. Best; causes of the Atlanta riot of 1906, GRegory Mixon; the protest against ""insult"" - balck soldiers, World War II and the ""war"" for democracy at home, Joyce Thomas; ambivalent allies - African Americans and American Jews after World War II, Cheryl Greenburg; Malcom X, David Walker and William Llyod Garrison - gaining freedom ""by any means necessary"", Donald M. Jacobs; resisting european Christianity - the rise of black Holiness-Pentecoastal culture in Brooklyn, Clarence Tatlor; African-American Humour - resistance and retaliation, Josephy Boskin; Completing the picturre - African Americans and independant cinema - an urban genre case study, Marshall Hyatt."

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