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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453236603321

Autore

Reed Ishmael <1938->

Titolo

Going too far [[electronic resource] ] : essays about America's nervous breakdown / / Ishmael Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montréal, : Baraka Books, 2012

ISBN

1-926824-59-8

1-926824-58-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

300

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century

African Americans in popular culture

Racism - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; Going There; PART I Chief Executive and Chief Exorcist, Too?; President Obama and the New Secession; BLACK MEN AND THE WHITE LEFT Why Some White Progressives Make Me Sick; What Progressives Don't Understand About Obama; OBAMA, HIS "BASE" AND THE JIM CROW MEDIA Joan Walsh's Twitter Brawl With Herself; VOTING WITH HARD HATS Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, T-Shirts; Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Tea Party; My School Curricula; The Beginnings of Black Studies; The Age of the Tea Party; TWO TEA BAGGERS A Fly on the Wall

PART II "Coonery and Buffoonery"HOLLYWOOD'S ENDURING MYTH OF THE BLACK MALE SEXUAL PREDATOR The Selling of Precious; Fade to White; The NAACP House of Shame; The Wire Goes to College; Diminutive Playwright Tackles Criminal Justice Dragon; Trouble Beside the Bay; "She Wanted It"; PART III As Relayed By Themselves; BEING BLACK AND "DIFFICULT" IN HOLLYWOOD An Interview with Lou Gossett, Jr.1; At Work: Ishmael Reed on Juice!; THE RETURN OF THE NIGGER BREAKERS: A GHETTO READING AND WRITTING RAT RESPONDS TO HIS



CRITICS Jill Nelson Interviews Ishmael Reed; An Interview with Terry McMillan

MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER WITHOUT BORDERS An Interview with David Murray WHERE ARE THE "PIRATES" COMING FROM? An Interview with Nuruddin Farah; WATERMILL AT GDANSK The U.S. Puts Its Best Foot Forward

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence-including Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn-it argues that, in some ways, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850's. Not only are the representations of blacks in popular culture throwbacks to the days of minstrelsy, but politicians are also raising stereotypes reminiscent of those which fugitive slaves found it necessary to combat: that African Americans are lazy,

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391544603316

Autore

White John <1570-1615.>

Titolo

The vvorkes of that learned and reuerend diuine, Iohn White Doctor in Diuinitie: together with a defence of The way to the true Church, in answer to a popish treatise written by T.W. P. entituled White died blacke. By Francis White Doctor in Diuinitie and deane of Carlile [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed [by Richard Field, Felix Kingston, and John Haviland] for William Barret, Anno 1624

Descrizione fisica

[36], 239, [5]; [24], 58, 69-202, 201-226, 225-230, 233-316, [2]; [4], 36; [28], 190, [2] p

Altri autori (Persone)

WhiteFrancis <1564?-1638.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The vvay to the true Church .. printed by Richard Field ..", "A defence of The vvay to the true Church, against A.D. his reply. .. imprinted by Felix Kyngston ..", "Tvvo sermons .. Printed at London by Iohn Hauiland ..", and "The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explained and iustified .. By Francis White .. The second edition .. Printed at London by Iohn Hauiland .." each have separate dated title page, pagination, and



register. The last part was previously published as STC 25380 in answer to: Worthington, Thomas.  Whyte dyed black.

Includes indexes.

A variant of the edition with imprint ".. printed by R.F. for Iohn Bill and William Barret ..".

Identified as STC 23589a on reel 980. "A defence of The way to the true Church" (by John White) identified as STC 25391 on reel 1562; "Two sermons" identified identified as STC 25393 on reel 1562; "The orthodox faith" identified as STC 25381 on reel 1589.

Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (reel 980), the Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library (reel 1562), the Bodleian Library (reel 11589), University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library (reel 1934), and Harvard University Library (reel 1979).

Reel 1562:14: some print show-through. Reel 1589: some print faded and show-through.

Nota di contenuto

The way to the true Church. London, R. Field for J. Bill and W. Barret, 1624 -- A defence of the Way to the true Church, against A.D. his reply. London, F. Kyngston for W. Barret, 1624 -- Two sermons ... London, J. Haviland for W. Barret, 1624 -- The orthodox faith and Way to the Church  explained and iustified / by Francis White. 2nd ed. London, J. Haviland for W. Barret, 1624.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0216