Author: Chester Himes
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1846687381
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Acclaimed expose of racism in mid-twentieth century USA, now a Serpent's Tail Classic
Language: en
Pages: 261
Pages: 261
Acclaimed expose of racism in mid-twentieth century USA, now a Serpent's Tail Classic
Language: en
Pages: 249
Pages: 249
Language: en
Pages: 309
Pages: 309
A cogent, objective, and in-depth exploration of the legal, political, and social complexities of the decision to ban hate speech.
Language: en
Pages: 1000
Pages: 1000
Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.
Language: en
Pages: 302
Pages: 302
Language: en
Pages: 121
Pages: 121
Language: en
Pages: 222
Pages: 222
By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically portrayed such tragic incidents in their
Language: en
Pages: 411
Pages: 411
This Special Summer 2007 (vol. V) Issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge includes the proceedings of the fourth annual Social Theory Forum (STF), held on March 27-28, 2007, at UMass Boston. The theme of the conference was “The Violences of Colonialism and Racism, Inner and Global:
Language: en
Pages: 176
Pages: 176
Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books lining shelves and filling barracks trunks were not the now-familiar Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, William Gardner Smith, and J. Saunders Redding.
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Aquest estudi analitza un ordre literari canviant: Amèrica com unitat i diversitat, com un ens nacional i transnacional. Els escrits crítics literaris reunits aquí ofereixen una sèrie de perspectives que tracen gran part de la geografia cultural en joc: la narrativa, l'autobiografia, el teatre, etc. Es presenten també un conjunt