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"An outstanding, comprehensive study about press coverage of black Americans during the 1960s and 1970s. In clear, polished writing style, Martindale analyzes past press coverage deficiencies, points out specific ways that coverage did or did not improve after the civil rights movement, and suggests ways by which journalists can improve coverage of black Americans." Choice "[Martindale's] meaninfgul reflections make history come alive and set forth a perspective for present and future media personnel." Media Development ... Read more

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"This important work contains just short of 4,000 citations to monographs, chapters in monographs, journal articles, dissertations, audio tapes, video tapes, and reviews. Drawn American and Western European as well as African imprints. The main body of the work is divided into three sections: `Cultural History and the Arts,' `African Theatre,' and `Black Theatre and Performance in the Diaspora.' . . . Because of its arrangement, it is an easy bibliography to browse. Four separate indexes (artist, title, subject, and author) simplify its use even further. No other bibliographic compilation in African and black theater is as recent or as comprehensive." Choice ... Read more

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In this volume, Clint C. Wilson II offers a comprehensive study of the historical heritage and current role of African-American journalists in both the black press and mainstream media. In addition to outlining the historical development of black communication from pre-slave trade Africa to the 1990s, Wilson profiles leading black journalists and examines what factors affect black journalists' efforts to rectify past distortions in media coverage of African Americans. Particularly concerned with the dilemma faced by all black journalists today (am I a journalist who happens to be black or am I a black who happens to be a journalist?), Wilson examines how workplace socialization and traditional Eurocentric news values continue to foster stereotypical coverage of Black America in the mainstream news media. He concludes by offering suggestions on how African-American journalists may constructively channel their skills and creative energies toward enhancing communications among black people while attaining the professional satisfaction largely unavailable to them in mainstream organizations.Beginning with an introductory overview of the black heritage in journalism, Wilson goes on to present a series of chronological chapters which demonstrate the transition from pulpit to press in the 1800s, explore the development of black media through the civil rights protests of the 1960s, and examine the price paid by African-American journalists as integration gave them access to the mainstream white-owned media. Subsequent chapters address the current situation faced by black journalists. Here, Wilson assesses the impact of the Kerner Commission Report of 1968 which increased the hiring of blacks in the mainstream press. Wilson then evaluates newsroom dynamics and explores "the illusion of inclusion" which he feels characterizes the situation of many black journalists today. An important contribution to the study of journalism, Wilson's work offers new insights into the historical roots and current experiences of African-American journalists. ... Read more

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Not surprisingly, African Americans have faced considerable obstacles in pursuing careers in engineering in the United States. Wharton has constructed the first history of black efforts to advance in this field from Emancipation to the present, as well as the reactions from state and federal agencies and from institutions of higher education. A pioneering effort, this book makes many telling points on the movement of a disadvantaged minority into a technologically advanced society. ... Read more

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The first Black newspaper in America, Freedom's Journal appeared in 1827 and in its first editorial, it outlined an objective that is symbolic of the Black press in the Middle West: "We wish to plead our cause. Too long have others spoken for us." In this, the first comprehensive examination of the Black press in the Middle West, Suggs and his expert contributors rewrite the history of the Middle West and prove that Blacks were not only present, but that they helped to shape the history, character, and political agenda of the region. ... Read more

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A valuable, easy-to-use thesaurus for those doing library research and online searches, this volume lists all Library of Congress sub-Saharan African subject headings, including classification numbers for most subject headings and cross-references from related or unused versions of a heading. The volume covers the 41 countries that make up Africa south of the Sahara and the islands of Cape Verde, the Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Saint Helena, Sao Tome, Principe, and the Seychelles. It consists of some 4,000 subject headings, including the names of over 600 African peoples and nearly 600 African languages. ... Read more

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Providing a comprehensive overview of the most daring and aggressive period in the history of Afro-American theatre, this study goes beyond an analysis of the major new playwrights and the plays that shaped the movement. The philosophies and dramatic styles of the most important theatre companies and the contributions of the individual artists who spearheaded their creation are also discussed. Finally the role of the Black producer, who often functioned as director and writer as well, is considered. ... Read more

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This is a sociolinguistic study investigating African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) in Muncie, Indian, known as America's "Middletown". The goal of the study is to examine whether Muncie AAVE was diverging from or converging with White Vernacular English (WVE) from 1980-1993. The anylysis focused on 23 synatactic and 5 phonological features collected from interviews of 32 African-American subjects. Equally divided into two groups of 1980 and 1993, the subjects consisted of both young and elderly. Therefore, both real-time and apparent-time data of Muncie AAVE could be compared and analysed. The results show that the 1993 subjects used these linguistic features less frequently. The findings based on time-depth data in this study contradict the claim that AAVE is diverging from WVE on a national level. ... Read more

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This detailed history of the many achievements of African-American guardsmen in U.S. history from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries fills an important gap in our knowledge about the involvement of African American militias in wartime and peacetime service. Using extensive primary and secondary sources, this account describes the establishment of African American militia groups in 1877, their role in the Spanish American War and in quelling civil disturbances and disasters up to 1914, their service in World Wars I and II and in the years between the wars, and their reorganization and integration into the National Guard in 1949 and 1950. ... Read more

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The uniqueness, sweeping content, and timing of Negro Digest/Black World give it enormous historical and scholarly importance. The most influential and widely read Black literary magazine in the 1960s, Negro Digest played a critical role in the era's Black Arts and Black Consciousness movement and is the most complete voice of that movement. Renamed Black World in 1970, the magazine gave voice to scholars coining and developing the concept of Afrocentric and African-centered analysis. An analysis of Afrocentric methods and discourse would not be complete without an examination of this magazine. This reference guide provides easy access to this valuable publication. ... Read more

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The films of Ousmane Sembene are powerful representations of the newly emerging black African cinema. In this interpretive study of his most significant films, Francoise Pfaff examines Sembene's pioneering efforts over the last two decades. While focusing primarily on the realistic and symbolic levels of his works, the stylistic and technical aspects are also examined. Pfaff discusses the aesthetic, sociopolitical, and metaphysical values of Sembene's oeuvre within its African context. His depiction of the tension between traditional and modern African life is explored. Pfaff includes film stills and excerpts from interviews with Sembene and other African filmmakers. She concludes with comments about Sembene's contributions to our intercultural heritage. ... Read more

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Through rhetorical criticism of selected spoken and written texts of successful African-American students, Valerie Balester has made a first step toward a rhetorical focus. ... Read more

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The road to the professional dramatic stage was not easily traveled by Black actresses, but some did make the transition from minstrels and musicals to drama beginning at the turn of the century. In this first study specifically on early Black actresses, Jo Tanner traces the progress of such stage pioneers, focusing especially on Anita Bush, Laura Bowman, and Abbie Mitchell, who achieved success on their own in the first three decades of the century and influenced and helped train a new generation of Black actresses. In the process, Tanner uncovers racial attitudes and preconceptions which forced Black actresses primarily into "mammy" roles. It took fortitude as well as talent for these women to pave the way. ... Read more

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This is a comprehensive guide to the black experience both on film and behind the camera. More than 6,000 entries documenting global film activity from 1919 to 1990 offer historical perspective on the black image in film, bibliographical materials on filmmakers and individual artists, and exciting information on newly emerging talent throughout the world. Gray furnishes valuable supplementary material in two appendixes which list reference works and film resource locations, and separate indexes keyed by artist, title, subject, and author. ... Read more

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Efforts to commercialize agriculture in peasant societies through investments in technology and various pricing strategies have failed to create the food surpluses needed to forestall famine and support industrialization in East Africa. Seavoy explores this problem, basing his study on the case of Tanzania, a country that experiences recurrent peacetime famines associated with failures in subsistence agriculture. He investigates the failures of East African national agricultural policies and defines strategies for inducing subsistence farmers to shift to commercial production. ... Read more

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The art song—a delicate and inspiring blend of music and poetry—has been performed by singers and pianists and appreciated by audiences around the world for more than two hundred years. While collections of art songs abound, this welcome volume and its accompanying compact disc make readily available the contributions of contemporary African American composers to the popular genre.

Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, Art Songs by Contemporary African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European traditions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this important collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.

Selected by Margaret R. Simmons and Jeanine Wagner, prolific and celebrated performers who have presented recitals throughout the world featuring the art songs of African American composers, this dazzling new repertoire of twentieth-century music is cogently framed by a thorough introduction and substantial biographies of each composer. The compact disc feature piano tracks of all thirty-nine compositions. ... Read more

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Denied its true place in history, the pre-Civil War black press was a forward looking, socially responsible press. Through her analysis of the content of black newspapers and magazines from the 1830s to the 1860s, Hutton not only presents a prism through which to view the social origins of black journalism in America, but also examines how this little-known ethnic press interfaced with the whole of journalism during the "dark ages" of the profession. This revisionist evaluation is a must for those interested in African-American cultural history. ... Read more