Research Catalog

Title

Going through the storm : the influence of African American art in history / Sterling Stuckey.

Author

Stuckey, Sterling

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

x, 298 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• African American arts
• African Americans > History
• Black author

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Through the prism of folklore : the Black ethos in slavery -- Remembering Denmark Vesey -- "Ironic tenacity" : Frederick Douglass's seizure of the dialectic -- The skies of consciousness : African dance at Pinkster in New York, 1750-1840 -- Classic Black nationalist thought -- A last stern struggle : Henry Highland Garnet and liberation theory -- Black Americans and African consciousness : Du Bois, Woodson, and the spell of Africa -- The poetry of Sterling A. Brown -- The death of Benito Cereno : a reading of Herman Melville on slavery -- "Follow your leader" : the theme of cannibalism in Melville's Benito Cereno -- "I want to be African" : Paul Robeson and the ends of nationalist theory and practice, 1914-1945 -- Paul Robeson's Here I stand -- Toward a history of Blacks in North America -- Going through the storm : the great singing movements of the sixties.

Call Number

Sc E 93-632

ISBN

• 019507677X
• 019508604X (pbk.)

LCCN

93003238

OCLC

• 27726390
• NYPG93-B76050

Author

Stuckey, Sterling.

Title

Going through the storm : the influence of African American art in history / Sterling Stuckey.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 93-632