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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... percent of Black married women of child - bearing age are sterilized , many without knowing the facts of the procedure , some without even knowing that the operation has taken place . In Cook County Jail in Illinois , 40 percent of the ...
... percent of Black married women of child - bearing age are sterilized , many without knowing the facts of the procedure , some without even knowing that the operation has taken place . In Cook County Jail in Illinois , 40 percent of the ...
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... percent , prostitution 53.6 percent , armed robbery 58.8 percent , gambling , 72.2 percent , forcible rape 45.4 percent , aggravated assault 39.5 percent , and 41.4 percent of those carrying or receiving illegal weapons . We should ...
... percent , prostitution 53.6 percent , armed robbery 58.8 percent , gambling , 72.2 percent , forcible rape 45.4 percent , aggravated assault 39.5 percent , and 41.4 percent of those carrying or receiving illegal weapons . We should ...
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... percent of the D.C. inmates are repeat offenders , forty percent of whom have been convicted at least once on drug charges and seventy - five percent are serving sentences of five years or longer . ninety percent of the current inmates ...
... percent of the D.C. inmates are repeat offenders , forty percent of whom have been convicted at least once on drug charges and seventy - five percent are serving sentences of five years or longer . ninety percent of the current inmates ...
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Beyond Survival | 7 |
Black on Black Homicide | 27 |
Black Culture in the Early Forties | 53 |
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