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The Dodo and the Bear: Stanley Elkin’s Encounters with the Animal

open access: yesNesir: Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
Stanley Elkin’s The Dick Gibson Show and Searches and Seizures present two human encounters with the animal – the former a dodo, the latter a bear. One encounter is violent, the other sexual, but both provide an interpretation of interspecies encounters ...
Thomas Aiello
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Baadassss Gangstas: The Parallel Influences, Characteristics and Criticisms of the Blaxploitation Cinema and Gangsta Rap Movements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Serving as two of the most visible African American cultural movements, blaxploitation cinema and gangsta rap played essential roles in giving African American artists an outlet to establish a new black identity for mainstream audiences.
Engels, Dustin
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When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2020
Weaving insightful analysis into a brief biography of gospel icon John P. Kee, Claudrena N. Harold explores gospel music\'s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
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‘We the ladies … have been deprived of a voice’: Uncovering Black Women’s Lives through the Colored Conventions Archive

open access: yes19, 2018
This article will investigate how African American women’s experience with education informed the Colored Conventions movement and propose that they used education activism as an avenue to gain and normalize official participation in convention ...
Samantha de Vera
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Extending the Normativity of the Extended Family: Reflections on \u3ci\u3eMoore v. City of East Cleveland\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Part I of this Article briefly recounts the plurality decision in Moore before analyzing Justice Brennan’s concurring opinion and detailing how the concurrence affirms, rather than deconstructs, the notion of African American deviance in families.
Gillner, Karl, Münstermann, Sebastian
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2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2015
An evening event of the 2014 Callaloo Conference held at Emory University, the annual Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading featured Jericho Brown and Kevin Young reading their own work. Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey greets conference attendees and
Kevin Young, Jericho Brown
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Survey Snapshot: Views and Experiences of Young Black Men [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This brief presents results from The Washington Post, Kaiser Foundation and Harvard University's African American Men Survey on the subset of 400 African American men ages 18 to 29 ...

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A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2012
Holly Hobbs reviews Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) by Matt Miller.
Holly Hobbs
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Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina

open access: yesSouthern Spaces, 2010
Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams, Low Country Travelers sign, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 2010. In their photo essay, Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams explore the history, mission, and significance of the "Low Country Travelers," an ...
Nancy Marshall, John McWilliams
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Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Highlights the gaps in high school graduation rates between African-American men and their white counterparts and the disparities between school resources and quality.

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