collection: Contributions in Black Studies

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Black Springfield: A Historical Study

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  • – Part Two of article on the history of African Americans in Springfield, Massachusetts. This article covers the period since 1900. It was written by an undergraduate Afro-American Studies student at UMass Amherst as her senior thesis.
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  • – 2008-08-17
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AFRO-AMERICAN SLAVERY: NOTES ON NEW TRENDS IN THEORY&RESEARCH

description
  • – "Afro-American Slavery: Notes on New Trends in Theory and Research"was read as one of the Five College Black Studies Faculty Seminar Series in 1976.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-17
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  • – application/pdf

BLACK FAMILY RESEARCH: A CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW

description
  • – The article offers a conceptual framework for reviewing social science research on the African American family. A draft of this paper was presented in the 1977 Five College Black Studies Seminar Series.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-17
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"CLOSE RANKS": MAJOR JOEL E. SPINGARN AND THE TWO SOULS OF DR. W. E. B. DU BOIS

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  • – "'Close Ranks': Major Joel E. Spingarn and the Two Souls of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois"was a part of a larger study of the development of radicalism among Afro-Americans during the second and third decades of the present century.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-17
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  • – application/pdf

A NEW BEGINNING TOWARDS A MORE PRODUCTIVE FUTURE FOR BLACK STUDIES

description
  • – Senator Owens was a member of the Executive Board of the National Council for Black Studies (NCBS)."A New Beginning Toward a More Productive Future for Black Studies"was his 1978 keynote address at the annual convention of the National Council that was held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This was the second annual meeting of the NCBS.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-17
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  • – application/pdf

RACIAL OPPRESSION AND THE BRITISH STATE INTO THE EIGHTIES

description
  • – As Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts/ Amherst for the academic year 1980-81, the author of this article read the paper"Racial Oppression and the British State"as one of the Five College Black Studies Faculty Seminar Series on December 2, 1980.
collectiondate
  • – 2008-08-25
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  • – application/pdf

THE MARKETING OF BLACK MUSIC

description
  • – Today's black musicians are challenged not only to master their art, but also the business side of what has become a multi-million dollar consumer market. The author argues that little has changed since the days when black talent was paid with liquor and Cadillacs. Some new groups and young performers have begun to learn from the mistakes of their elders and are managing to hold on in a treacherous marketplace.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-25
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  • – application/pdf

RENE MARAN'S<em>BATOUALA</em>AND THE<em>PRIX-GONCOURT</em>

description
  • – A version of this article was presented before the Five College Faculty Seminar in African Studies in 1981. It emerges from the author's specialization in West African and Caribbean Francophone Literature.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-25
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  • – application/pdf

ARCHETYPAL PATTERNS UNDERLYING TRADITIONAL AFRICAN CULTURES: Janheinz Jahn's<em>Muntu</em>and Chinua Achebe's<em>Things Fall Apart</em>

description
  • – The present paper was an outgrowth of the author's undergraduate studies in the W. E. B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-25
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  • – application/pdf

THE BLACK LAWYER AS NON-PERSON IN THE MEDIA, OR"IS YOU DA ALLIGATOR OR DA ALLIGATEET'

description
  • – A comment on images of black lawyers in the mass media and its implications for African Americans in the profession.
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-25
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  • – application/pdf

SCULPTURE BY DORRANCE J. HILL

description
  • – Images and commentary on the Sculpture of Dorrance J. Hill
subjectcollectiondate
  • – 2008-08-25
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