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Publisher
Hearst Home
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Presenting interviews with more than fifty members of the oldest generation of Black Americans, including civil rights activists, hometown heroes, celebrities and many others, this testament to the strength and stories behind these individuals reveals their lives, experiences, and wisdom."--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Annie S. Barnes has solicited the stories of 150 black college students from middle-class backgrounds, who tell of their frequent encounters with racism. Following these personal accounts, Barnes offers simple ideas for what blacks, whites, and others can do to confront and respond to racism in all its guises.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Gates travels to the east coast, the deep South, inner city Chicago, and Hollywood to investigate modern black America and interview influential Americans including Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Alicia Keys, Maya Angelou, Willie Herenton and others.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the most prominent public intellectual of our time, Cornel West asks nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public figures about the sources of hope among African Americans today: "How can we be realistic about what this nation is about and still sustain hope, acknowledging that we're up against so much?"
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the future of black leadership should look like and how we can get there.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Using in-depth interviews of high-achieving African Americans who came of age both before and after the civil rights era, The Black Elite documents that race still matters in the twenty-first century. Lois Benjamin describes how African Americans grapple on a daily basis with what W.E.B. Du Bois called the double consciousness: living within and between two worlds. A new chapter details how the post-civil rights generation interprets and navigates...
18) Remembering slavery: African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom
Language
English
Formats
Description
Live recordings and dramatic readings of interviews with former slaves. The original recordings were made by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project in the early 1930s and placed in the Library of Congress. They have now been re-mastered and made available to the American public.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly concluded that to be successful at work meant playing a certain social game. Each meeting was drenched in white slang and the privileged talk of international travel or folk concerts in San Francisco, which led Chad to believe he needed to emulate whiteness to be successful. So Chad changed. He changed his wardrobe, his behavior, his speech--everything that connected...
