Kiss My Black Ass

• Author : Anthony X
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release Date : 2016-11-09
• ISBN : 9781524649425

This book is his journeya Black Kiss-story thats full of funny, entertaining, and in some cases, heartbreaking stories of his years as a die-hard Kiss fan committed to the hottest band in the land. Its the voice for everyone who was there and remembers what it was like being a hardcore Kiss fan back in the day, with all the mystery, excitement, anticipation, and mania, but also the rejection, taunting, and funny looks. So get ready to go back to

• Author : Geneva Smitherman
• Publisher : Wayne State University Press
• Release Date : 1986
• ISBN : 0814318053

Defines Black English in the context of African-American culture and lifestyles and tackles the issue of white attitudes toward Black English

• Author : Roberta Uno
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : 0878300716

"This collection features 45 monologues excerpted from contemporary plays and specially geared for actors of color. Robert Uno has carefully selected the monologues so that there is a wide-range of ethnicities included: African American, Native American, Latino and Asian American. Each monologue comes with an introduction with notes on the characters and stage directions to set the scene for the actor."--Publisher.

• Author : Verner D. Mitchell,Cynthia Davis
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2019-05-15
• ISBN : 9781538101469

This reference identifies key contributors to the Black Arts Movement, the name given to a group of poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. This book also discusses major works produced during the period, as well as significant publications, influential groups, and organizations.

• Author : Marilyn Elkins
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-10-23
• ISBN : 9781135704414

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : Lisa Gail Collins,Margo Natalie Crawford
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release Date : 2006-05-16
• ISBN : 9780813541075

During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—has remained largely neglected by subsequent generations of critics. New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement includes essays that reexamine well-known figures such as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez,

• Author : James Smethurst
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• Release Date : 2006-03-13
• ISBN : 9780807876503

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines the formation of the Black Arts Movement and demonstrates how it deeply influenced the production and reception of literature and art in the United States through its negotiations of the ideological climate of the Cold War,

• Author : Robert E. Washington
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2001
• ISBN : 0742509508

This book challenges the long-held assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. Offering a novel sociological approach, Washington delineates the social and political forces that shaped the leading black literary works. Washington shows that deep divisions between political thinkers and writers prevailed throughout the 20th century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

• Author : Ajay Heble
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-03-07
• ISBN : 9781134001293

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.

• Author : Ben Hickman
• Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
• Release Date : 2015-06-24
• ISBN : 9780748682874

Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary crises.

• Author : Ron Wainwright
• Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
• Release Date : 2018-07-25
• ISBN : 9781457565205

Photographer and carefree bachelor Miles Morris is always surrounded by beautiful women. When he’s behind the camera, he’s a pro. But when ladies ask him for personal services beyond the lens, it’s difficult to keep from mixing business with pleasure. Miles is considered a great catch, but does he truly want to settle down? Cheryl shares his love of sports but is that enough. The sexy neighbor Coco shares her weed as generously as she shares her

• Author : Matthew Calihman,Gerald Early
• Publisher : Modern Language Association
• Release Date : 2018-05-01
• ISBN : 9781603293563

First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical information, critical and literary backgrounds, and the play's early production history. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," address viewing

• Author : Emily Mann
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2002-05-01
• ISBN : 9781476847764

Warning: The plays of ÊPolitical StagesÊ do not make for a quiet evening of theatre. These are the plays which got audiences out of their seats and sometimes out into the streets. Their words and ideas rumbled ominously down the marble hallways of legislatures and challenged even threatened and often changed the thinking of millions. These are the plays which either lit or reflected the fires of those political controversies which blazed across the American Twentieth Century. Individually each is

• Author : Erik Patterson
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release Date : 2010-05-07
• ISBN : 9781450067720

• Author : Thomas Bradshaw
• Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
• Release Date : 2015-09-28
• ISBN : 9781559367837

A new collection of plays by one of "Time Out New York"'s Ten Playwrights to Watch.