The Blue Vein Society Class And Color Within Black America

Author : Sam Kelley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479775770
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Vein Society: Class and Color within Black America written by Sam Kelley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Vein Society Blue Vein Society President Josh Ryder is all set to announce his engagement to a young fair-skinned beauty when his very dark-skinned wife from slavery suddenly appears searching for her long lost husband. A shocked Ryder is forced to confront his hidden past. No Hidin’ Place A southern sheriff discovers the mulatto he is protecting from the lynch mob is his own son, accused of murdering a Confederate army officer. As the mob closes in, the sheriff is forced to make a painful decision to save his son from being lynched. With amazing speed -- and superb acting -- Kelley's play shifts from light but edged irony, to pain, rage, tenderness and acceptance, underscoring the many nuances of prejudice. Neil Novelli Syracuse Post Standard This reviewer long has felt [Kelley] has a kinship with the late August Wilson. Like the Pulitzer Prize winner, Kelley revels in dealing with African-American history. Joan E. Vadaboncouer Syracuse Post Standard The Blue Vein Society . . . is most certainly about the black experience, but like all good drama, it uses that point of view to talk about the human experience. Ann L. Ryan Albuquerque Journal

Author : Sam Kelley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479775754
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blue Vein Society: Class and Color within Black America written by Sam Kelley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Vein Society Blue Vein Society President Josh Ryder is all set to announce his engagement to a young fair-skinned beauty when his very dark-skinned wife from slavery suddenly appears searching for her long lost husband. A shocked Ryder is forced to confront his hidden past. No Hidin' Place A southern sheriff discovers the mulatto he is protecting from the lynch mob is his own son, accused of murdering a Confederate army officer. As the mob closes in, the sheriff is forced to make a painful decision to save his son from being lynched. With amazing speed -- and superb acting -- Kelley's play shifts from light but edged irony, to pain, rage, tenderness and acceptance, underscoring the many nuances of prejudice. Neil Novelli Syracuse Post Standard This reviewer long has felt [Kelley] has a kinship with the late August Wilson. Like the Pulitzer Prize winner, Kelley revels in dealing with African-American history. Joan E. Vadaboncouer Syracuse Post Standard The Blue Vein Society . . . is most certainly about the black experience, but like all good drama, it uses that point of view to talk about the human experience. Ann L. Ryan Albuquerque Journal

Author : Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781497347861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wife of His Youth written by Charles Waddell Chesnutt and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1899 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesnutt's second major work of fiction, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, was published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin. In this collection of nine short stories set in Ohio and North Carolina, Chesnutt scrutinizes the sociological and psychological effects of Jim Crow laws and practices on white, black, and mixed-race communities. Chesnutt insightfully and often satirically reveals not only the difficulties faced by racially blended individuals but also their intense prejudices against more darkly shaded African Americans. Throughout The Wife of His Youth, Charles Chesnutt repeatedly unveils the nation's hypocrisy in claiming social equality among the races while gradually embracing the fierce system of segregation that characterized the North and the South at that time.

Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528792998
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blacker the Berry written by Wallace Thurman and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1929, “The Blacker the Berry” is a novel by American novelist Wallace Henry Thurman (1902–1934). An active writer during the Harlem Renaissance, he produced essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of numerous newspapers and journals. His best-known work, “The Blacker the Berry”, represents a detailed exploration of the discrimination within the black community based on skin colour, with a higher value being placed on lighter skin. A moving tale of the hardships faced by African-American post-emancipation not to be missed by those interested in black history and literature. Contents include: “If I Had Known by Alice Dunbar-Nelson”, “ Emma Lou”, “Harlem”, “Alva”, “Rent Party”, “Pyrrhic Victor”. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a brand new edition, complete with the introductory poem “If I Had Known” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

Author : Alfred Bendixen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119685648
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the American Short Story written by Alfred Bendixen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Audrey Elisa Kerr
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334625
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paper Bag Principle written by Audrey Elisa Kerr and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paper Bag Principle: Class, Colorism, and Rumor in the Case of Black Washington, D.C. considers the function of oral history in shaping community dynamics among African American residents of the nation's capitol. The only attempt to document rumor and legends relating to complexion in black communities, The Paper Bag Principle looks at the divide that has existed between the black elite and the black "folk." The Paper Bag Principle focuses on three objectives: to record lore related to the "paper bag principle" (the set of attitudes that granted blacks with light skin higher status in black communities); to investigate the impact that this "principle" has had on the development of black community consciousness; and to link this material to power that results from proximity to whiteness. The Paper Bag Principle is sure to appeal to scholars and historians interested in African American studies, cultural studies, oral history, folklore, and ethnic and urban studies.

Author : Deborah Gabriel
Publisher : Imani Media Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955721008
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layers of Blackness written by Deborah Gabriel and published by Imani Media Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book by an author in the UK to take an in-depth look at colourism - the process of discrimination based on skin tone among members of the same ethnic group, whereby lighter skin is more valued than darker complexions. The African Diaspora in Britain is examined as part of a global black community with shared experiences of slavery, colonization and neo-colonialism. The author traces the evolution of colourism within African descendant communities in the USA, Jamaica, Latin America and the UK from a historical and political perspective and examines its present impact on the global African Diaspora. This book is essential reading for educators and students and will appeal to anyone with an interest in the subject of race and identity who wants to understand why colourism - a psychological legacy of slavery still impacts people of African descent in the Diaspora today.

Author : Sharon L. Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058075
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rereading the Harlem Renaissance written by Sharon L. Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance generally fall into three aesthetic categories: the folk, which emphasizes oral traditions, African American English, rural settings, and characters from lower socioeconomic levels; the bourgeois, which privileges characters from middle class backgrounds; and the proletarian, which favors overt critiques of oppression by contending that art should be an instrument of propaganda. Depending on critical assumptions regarding what constitutes authentic African American literature, some writers have been valorized, others dismissed. This rereading of the Harlem Renaissance gives special attention to Fauset, Hurston, and West. Jones argues that all three aesthetics influence each of their works, that they have been historically mislabeled, and that they share a drive to challenge racial, class, and gender oppression. The introduction provides a detailed historical overview of the Harlem Renaissance and the prevailing aesthetics of the period. Individual chapters analyze the works of Hurston, West, and Fauset to demonstrate how the folk, bourgeois, and proletarian aesthetics figure into their writings. The volume concludes by discussing the writers in relation to contemporary African American women authors.

Author : Clarence Page
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Showing My Color written by Clarence Page and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting on changes in the racial landscape since the 1960s and drawing on a depth of personal and private experiences, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the "Chicago Tribune" reconnects the increasingly abstract political debates about black conservatives, affirmative action, and the "race card" to the people for whom these words mean something more than just votes.

Author : Gregory A. Fournier
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1627879021
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Detroit Time Capsule written by Gregory A. Fournier and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detroit Time Capsule is a collection of seventy-five articles that first appeared as Fornology.com blog posts. The original posts have been revised and re-edited for inclusion in this anthology. Topics vary from significant historical events to biographical profiles of people who left their mark on Detroit history. Although this collection can be read from beginning to end, most chapters are self-contained with no narrative thread binding them. This eclectic collection makes a great springboard for readers interested in learning more about Detroit's rich past.