Nightmare Overhanging Darkly: Essays on African American Culture and ResistanceWith an analysis informed by more than two decades of cultural work and activism on the frontlines, Nightmare Overhanging Darkly reviews the historic tradition of Black cultural resistance to Western imperialism and oppression. In emphasizing the process by which creative artists have initiated and influenced social change, Dr. Acklyn Lynch issues a challenge to Black cultural workers and offers Black educators a blueprint for restructuring Black colleges and universities to best assist Black empowerment. Dr. Lynch centers his study on the 1940s to the 1990s and offers critiques of the major political activists and creative artists of that period -- including Paul Robeson, Sonia Sanchez, Charlie Parker, Malcolm X, Katherine Dunham, Jeff Donaldson, Alice Walker, George Jackson, Richard Wright, Toni Cade Bambara, Romare Bearden, KRS-ONE and others. Lynch reminds us that there is an organic link between art and resistance that moves beyond art for art's sake.--Publisher's description. |
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... Paul and Essie Robeson returned to Harlem in 1939 , and it was their tremendous stature and penetrating interpretations that expanded the cultural milieu . Paul Robeson was in great demand as actor , singer and cultural worker . He ...
... Paul and Essie Robeson returned to Harlem in 1939 , and it was their tremendous stature and penetrating interpretations that expanded the cultural milieu . Paul Robeson was in great demand as actor , singer and cultural worker . He ...
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... Paul Robeson's rendition of " Ballad for Americans " that became the national patriotic song of the early war years , cutting across all political lines . On June 30 , 1940 , this rendition was played at the Republican Convention ; an ...
... Paul Robeson's rendition of " Ballad for Americans " that became the national patriotic song of the early war years , cutting across all political lines . On June 30 , 1940 , this rendition was played at the Republican Convention ; an ...
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... Paul Robeson understood this when he said at his 46th birthday party on April 9 , 1944 , at the 17th Regiment Armory of New York ( sponsored by W.C. Handy , Duke Ellington , Count Basie , Hope Stevens , Olin Downes , Joe Louis , Lilian ...
... Paul Robeson understood this when he said at his 46th birthday party on April 9 , 1944 , at the 17th Regiment Armory of New York ( sponsored by W.C. Handy , Duke Ellington , Count Basie , Hope Stevens , Olin Downes , Joe Louis , Lilian ...
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Beyond Survival | 7 |
Black on Black Homicide | 27 |
Black Culture in the Early Forties | 53 |
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