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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The Notorious B.I.G. exploded onto the hip-hop scene with his platinum-selling album Ready to Die in 1995. The life of B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie Smalls--born Christopher Wallace--had come a long way from the years spent in his Bed-Sty neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where he dropped out of school at age seventeen to pursue the culture of the street and master his rapping style. It was on the street that Smalls began emceeing his original raps and was...
1243) Bunch of playdates
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Get ready for three times the fun in this 3-pack collection containing over 20 perfect play dates with your Nickelodeon preschool pals!"--Container.
Publisher
[Hinchas de Poesía Press]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It is a book all LIS educators and administrators need to read now. The editors and author contributors show us by direct action what critical librarianship is. At the heart of the book is an ethics of care and self-care, an ethics born out of critical stances positioned in examining our rich intersectionalities and inter-being as people of color and allies. Librarians With Spines is a call to action that asks us to reflect on our intentionality as...
1246) African American jazz and rap: social and philosophical examinations of Black expressive behavior
Publisher
McFarland
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood's task of erecting normative cultural standards? How do...
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience. Watching While Black considers its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the lives, motivations,...
Publisher
Blackwell Pub
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
This companion traces the creative energy that surged in new directions in the United States after World War II. Each of the contributors approaches a particular aspect of post-war literature, film, music or drama from his or her own perspective.
Publisher
Workman Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Why Freedom Matters celebrates freedom in over 100 speeches, letters, essays, poems, and songs, all infused with the spirit of democracy. Here are the voices of presidents and slaves, founding fathers and hip-hop artists, suffragettes, civil rights workers, preachers, labor leaders, and baseball players. Inspired by the Declaration of Independence, the book is published in conjunction with The Declaration of Independence Road Trip, a 3 1/2-year cross-country...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection "No Tea, No Shade" brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this collection's contributors speak new truths about the black queer experience while exemplifying the codification of black queer studies as a rigorous...
Publisher
Morgan Kaufmann
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This book presents information on how to analyze risks to your networks and the steps needed to select and deploy the appropriate countermeasures to reduce your exposure to physical and network threats. It also imparts the skills and knowledge needed to identify and counter some fundamental security risks and requirements, inlcuding Internet security threats and measures (audit trails IP sniffing/spoofing etc.) and how to implement security policies...
Publisher
Young Voyageur Press, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a collection of 64 songs from a cross-section of folk styles along with backgound narratives for each song and essays on the nature of music-making in the home and community.
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