A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (Bunch III Lonnie G.)(Pevná vazba)

A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (Bunch III Lonnie G.)(Pevná vazba)

Founding Director Lonnie Bunch's deeply personal tale of the triumphs and challenges of bringing the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to life. His story is by turns inspiring, funny, frustrating, quixotic, bittersweet, and above all, a compelling read. In its

Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies (Conwill Kinshasha Holman)(Pevná vazba)

The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer CrewAn incisive and

Handbags: The Making of a Museum (Wilcox Claire)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the role of the handbag in the history of culture, fashion, and material production The history of the handbag--its design, how it has been made, used, and worn--reveals something essential about women's lives over the past 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (Scott Julius S.)(Paperback)

Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses

More Than a Game: A History of the African American Experience in Sport (Wiggins David K.)(Pevná vazba)

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American community, and the United States more generally. Recognizing the complicated history of race in America and how sport can both divide and

Yes We (Still) Can - Politics in the age of Obama, Twitter and Trump (Pfeiffer Dan)(Paperback / softback)

The fightback starts here: this timely book offers a glimmer of hope in the darkness of the age, and a contribution to the anti-Trump resistance. The author was President Obama's communications director and senior

The Age of Phillis (Jeffers Honore Fanonne)(Pevná vazba)

Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley In 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by

Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA (Graziano Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts

National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of American Indian History and Culture: Stories, Timelines, Maps, and More (O'Brien Cynthia)(Pevná vazba)

Managing Innovation and Cultural Management in the Digital Era: The case of the National Palace Museum (Tsaih Rua-Huan)(Pevná vazba)

The world-class National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taiwan possesses a repository of the largest collection of Chinese cultural treasures of outstanding quality. Through implementing a two-organizational restructuring, and shifting its operational focus from being object-oriented to public-centered, it

Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words (Evans Marta)(Pevná vazba)

Get inside the head of Michelle Obama: author, lawyer, humanitarian, and the trailblazing first African American first lady of the United States of America. This collection of quotes has been carefully curated from Michelle Obama's numerous public statements--interviews, books, social media

Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (Fielder Brigitte)(Pevná vazba)

The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of print and digital culture can be as limiting

Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest (Raicovich Laura)(Pevná vazba)

A leading activist museum director explains why museums are at the center of a political storm In an age of protest, cultural institutions have come under fire. Protestors have mobilized against sources of museum funding, as happened at the Metropolitan Museum, and against board appointments,

Swingin' on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles (Vacher Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The development of jazz and swing in the African-American community in Los Angeles in the years before the second World War received a boost from the arrival of a significant numbers of musicians from Chicago and the southwestern states. In Swingin' on Central: African-American Jazz in Los Angeles,

A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind (Goodson Stephen Mitford)(Pevná vazba)

In a 'History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind' ex-South African banker Stephen Goodson explains how the Central Banking 'scam' originated, and how those who run it have throughout history used their power to subvert governments, and manufacture wars that not only produced vast

Hard-Fighting Soldiers: A History of African American Churches of Christ (Robinson Edward J.)(Pevná vazba)

In the first full-length scholarly synthesis of the African American Churches of Christ, Edward J. Robinson provides a comprehensive look at the church's improbable development against a backdrop of African American oppression. The journey begins with a lesser known preacher, F. F. Carson, in many

Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Holmes John)(Pevná vazba)

Built between 1855 and 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. The architect Benjamin Woodward consulted with two groups on the design and decoration of the building: a panel of Oxford scientists and

The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism (Delton Jennifer A.)(Pevná vazba)

The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers--NAM--helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history

American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism (Vysotsky Stanislav)(Paperback)

Since the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the United States. This book analyzes the tactics, culture, and practices of the movement through a

The Art of Fufu: A Guide to the Culture and Flavors of a West African Tradition (Grubido)(Pevná vazba)

A Guide to a West African Tradition The Art of Fufu is a fascinating and informative guide to fufu, one of the most delicious and beloved staple foods of West Africans. All fufu dishes consist of two parts--the prepared, cooked fufu (which has a dough-like consistency and is made by mixing a plant

Race and the Obama Administration: Substance, symbols, and hope (Gillespie Andra)(Pevná vazba)

Did African Americans benefit from the election of Barack Obama? This book explores Obama's successes and failures on race policies by comparing his record to those of previous presidents, and explains why black support of Obama remained strong throughout his

Black: The History of a Color (Pastoureau Michel)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture--from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black--favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists--has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and

Old Testament Warriors: The Clash of Cultures in the Ancient Near East (Elliott Simon)(Pevná vazba)

A concise history of warfare between Ancient Middle Eastern cultures in the age of the Old Testament using archaeology and evidence from the Bible.The period covered by the Old Testament - beginning in approximately 3000 BC - was one of great technological development and innovation in warfare, as

Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Haider Asad)(Paperback)

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggleWhether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common