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humanities & social change, The
The mere exercise of reading the text as it really is will make the reader moral and wise in a direct way that no systemic body of dogmatic...
Daedalus, 01/01/09 by Early, Gerald · More from publication -
Cullen, Countee
CULLEN, Countee CULLEN, Countee (b. 30 March 1903; d. 9 January 1946), writer, teacher. Scholars have found it difficult to learn exactly where...
Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America, 10/25/05 by Gerald Early · More from publication -
Deconstructing America's Great Entertainer
Deconstructing America's Great Entertainer In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. By Wil Haygood (Knopf, $26.95) Gonna Do Great Things:...
Crisis, The, 11/01/03 by Early, Gerald · More from publication -
Documenting Blackness
African-Americans occupy a contradictory place in American life. They feel they have been denied their history and in good measure, this is...
Newsweek, 07/31/03 by Gerald Early (Gerald Early is professor of English and African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His latest book is "This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s" (University of Nebraska Press)) · More from publication -
Freedom songs
music Folklorist, novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1891?-1960), who had an intense interest in the roots of Black western muisic,...
New Crisis, The, 11/01/01 by Early, Gerald · More from publication -
A Homeless Mind. - Review - book review
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis (Holt, 715 pp., $35) W. E. B. Du Bois: The...
National Review, 12/04/00 by Gerald Early · More from publication -
Ode to John Coltrane: a jazz musician's influence on African American culture
East St. Louis Poet Laureate Eugene Redmond described jazz tenor saxophonist John Coltrane as a vast source of inspiration for black poets of the...
Antioch Review, The, 06/22/99 by Gerald Early · More from publication -
Performance and reality: race, sports and the modern world.(Cover Story)
Racism and racial concerns have become part of the sports world. Sports personalities Jackie Robinson, the first African American major league...
Nation, The, 08/10/98 by Early, Gerald · More from publication -
Dreaming of a black Christmas.(essay on Kwanzaa)
For the past five or six years, in my position as head of the African-American studies program at the university where I teach, I've been invited...
Harper's Magazine, 01/01/97 by Early, Gerald · More from publication -
Gerald Early: Miles Davis as Ahab and the Whale
For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us on. --Herman Melville, Moby-Dick The first...
American Poetry Review, The, 01/01/97 by Early, Gerald · More from publication
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