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African American Bioethics: culture, race and identity. by Edmund D. Pellegrino (Editor); Lawrence J. Prograis (Editor)
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2007Do people of differing ethnicities, cultures, and races view medicine and bioethics differently? And, if they do, should they? Are doctors and researchers taking environmental perspectives into account when dealing with patients? If so, is it done effectively and properly? In African American Bioethics, Lawrence J. Prograis Jr. and Edmund D. Pellegrino bring together medical practitioners, researchers, and theorists to assess one fundamental question: Is there a distinctive African American bioethics?Black on Earth: African American ecoliterary traditions by Kimberly N. Ruffin
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2010American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. Ruffin identifies a theory of “ecological burden and beauty” in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural orderThe Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2011A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America.Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture by Jay Kinsbruner (Editor); Erick Detlef Langer
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2008Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater by Eladio Cortés; Mirta Barrea-Marlys
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2003This volume traces the history of Latin American theater, including the Nuyorican and Chicano theaters of the United States, and surveys its history from the pre-Columbian period to the present.Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Latin American and Caribbean Literature, 1900 2003 by Daniel Balderston (Editor); Mike Gonzalez (Editor)
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2004The Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean Literature 1900-2003 draws together entries on all aspects of literature in these regions, including authors, critics, major works, magazines, genres and movements, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
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African-American Philosophers by George Yancy (Editor)
Call Number: 191.089 A37 1998Publication Date: 1998Through interviews with 17 philosophers, including Angela Davis, Cornel West, Adrian Piper, and Lucius Outlaw, Yancy reflects similar and contrasting views on a wide range of philosophical concerns of African Americans.African American Bioethics by Edmund D. Pellegrino (Editor); Lawrence J. Prograis (Editor)
Call Number: 174.957 S95a 2007Publication Date: 2007Do people of differing ethnicities, cultures, and races view medicine and bioethics differently? And, if they do, should they? Are doctors and researchers taking environmental perspectives into account when dealing with patients? If so, is it done effectively and properly? In African American Bioethics, Lawrence J. Prograis Jr. and Edmund D. Pellegrino bring together medical practitioners, researchers, and theorists to assess one fundamental question: Is there a distinctive African American bioethics?African American Librarians in the Far West: pioneers and trailblazers. by Binnie Tate Wilkin (Editor)
Call Number: 020.89 A37 2006Publication Date: 2006Historically, African American librarians have faced the same discrimination as other African American professionals: lack of respect; placement only in African American communities; failure to receive promotions to administrative positions, especially those requiring supervision of Caucasian counterparts; and failure to recognize contributions to the organization and the profession. African American Librarians in the Far West includes biographies of twenty-two librarians who practiced in the western United States and Hawaii and contributed to the advancement of African Americans in the profession, the library, the general community, and the field of library and information science.African American Religious Thought: an anthology by Cornel West (Editor); Eddie S. Glaude (Editor)
Call Number: 230.0899 A37 2003Publication Date: 2003Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance by Cary D. Wintz
Call Number: 810.9 W57 1988Publication Date: 1989First published in 1988, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance examines the relationship between the community and its literature. Author Cary Wintz analyzes the movement’s emergence within the framework of the black social and intellectual history of early twentieth-century America. He begins with Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others whose work broke barriers for the Renaissance writers to come.Cornel West: a critical reader. by George Yancy (Editor); Cornel West
Call Number: 973 C67 2001Publication Date: 2001Eighteen critical essays on the African American intellectual Cornel West, studying the diverse aspects of his thought on culture, history, religion and philosophy.Creating Their Own Image: the history of African-American women artists by Lisa E. Farrington
Call Number: 704.042 F37c 2011Publication Date: 2011Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details hundreds of important works--many of which deliberately challenge these same identity myths, of the carnal Jezebel, the asexual Mammy, the imperious Matriarch--in crafting a portrait of artistic creativity unprecedented in its scope and ambition.The Garland Handbook of African Music by Ruth Stone (Editor)
Call Number: 780.96 G37 2000Publication Date: 1999"Here is a comprehensive set of essays, written by the leading scholars in the field, that explore all aspects of African music. This handbook provides an introduction to the continent and its many musical forms, including a discussion of issues and processes in the study of African music and a number of regional case studies .The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music by Dale A. Olsen (Editor); Daniel Sheehy (Editor)
Call Number: 780.98 G37 2008Publication Date: 2007These essays offer detailed, regional studies of the different musical cultures of Latin America and examine the ways in which music helps to define the identity of this particular area.Harlem Renaissance by Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by); Nathan Irvin Huggins
Call Number: 305.5 H84h 2007Publication Date: 2007A milestone in the study of African-American life and culture, this classic history has been reissued with a new foreword by biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide to the facts and features, the puzzles and mysteries, of one of the most provocative episodes in African-American and American history."Latin American Thought: philosophical problems and arguments. by Susana Nuccetelli
Call Number: 199.8 N83 2002Publication Date: 2001Many of the philosophical questions raised in Latin America may seem to be among the perennial problems that have concerned philosophers at different times and in different places throughout the Western tradition, but they are not altogether the same--for Latin American thinkers have often adapted them to capture problems presented by new circumstances, and sought resolutions with arguments that are indeed novel.Miss Anne in Harlem by Carla Kaplan
Call Number: 700.92 K39m 2013Publication Date: 2013This interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance focuses on white women, collectively called "Miss Anne," who became Harlem Renaissance insiders during the 1920s.Our America: the Latino presence in American art. by Carmen Ramos; Tomas Ybarra-Frausto (Introduction by)
Call Number: 704.0368 O97 2014Publication Date: 2014On the one hand, the affirmation that Latino art is American art is simply a fact. Latino artists are American by birth, citizenship, residence, education, experience, and even sacrifice-a factor made clear by the large number of Latino artists that have served in the United States armed forces. On the other hand, the statement poses a challenge to the ways in which we traditionally think about what constitutes American art.The Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews (Editor); Frances Smith (Editor); Trudier Harris (Editor); Henry Louis Gates (Foreword by)
Call Number: 810.1 OXFORDC 199Publication Date: 1997The Oxford Companion to African American Literature provides the first comprehensive one-volume reference work devoted to this rich tradition, surveying the length and breadth of black literary history, focusing in particular on the lives and careers of more than 400 writers.Poetry, Desire, and Fantasy in the Harlem Renaissance by Raphael Comprone
Call Number: 810.9 C66p 2006Publication Date: 2005In this groundbreaking work, Raphael Comprone uses psychoanalysis to reinvigorate Harlem Renaissance studies.
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