Black genius and the American experience /
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| Author / Creator: | Russell, Dick. |
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| Edition: | 1st Carroll & Graf ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Carroll & Graf, 1998. |
| Description: | xii, 497 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2993875 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Bearing Witness
- Pt. 1. A Certain Heritage. 1. Ancestors - Ellington's Mentor: Will Marion Cook. 2. Albert Murray and Louis Armstrong. 3. The Craft of Ralph Ellison. 4. From Duke Ellington to Wynton Marsalis. 5. Variations on a Theme: Romare Bearden, Artist
- Pt. 2. Creation under Fire. 6. Ancestors - Meta Warrick Fuller, Sculptor. 7. The Painters: Lois Mailou Jones and Jacob Lawrence. 8. All the World's Their Stage: Paul Robeson and Ira Aldridge. 9. Gordon Parks: A Lens on Humanity. 10. Ancestors - Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator. 11. A Teacher's Mission: Elma Lewis. 12. The Philosophers: Cornel West and the Du Bois/Locke Legacy. 13. Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize for Literature. 14. Timeless Voices, Parallel Realities: James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass
- Pt. 3. Builders of America: Science, Invention, Mathematics and Architecture. 15. Ancestors - Lewis Latimer and the Early Black Inventors. 16. The Laser Physicist and the Computer Wizard: Earl and Alan Shaw. 17. Bob Moses and the Algebra Project. 18. Ancestors - The Astronomer/Surveyor: Benjamin Banneker. 19. The Architects: Charles and Cheryl McAfee
- Pt. 4. Healers of Body and Spirit. 20. Ancestors - The Physicians: Louis Tompkins Wright and Jane Cooke Wright. 21. Byllye Avery and the National Black Women's Health Project. 22. Ancestors - Sojourner Truth and the Nineteenth-Century Visionaries. 23. Howard Thurman, Benjamin Mays, and the Martin Luther King Legacy.
