The Contributions of AAs Throughout History

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I’m helping my daughter out with Research in reference to her English Literature assignment, in doing so, I have compiled a list of speeches, novels, short stories, poems, historical names, facts, quotes, speeches and noteworthy figures that I might as well share with whoever happens to come across this thread.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Black Awakening in Capitalist America is a 1969 social sciences and history book by American scholar Robert L. Allen that analyzes the experience of Black residents of the United States as that of a colonized nation within a nation.

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Black Awakening In Capitalist America: An Analytic History : Robert L. Allen : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Had to explain to her what a c00n and racist caricatures like the “picanniny” are - this was heartbreaking Nothing like having break down racist imagery to a little kid and explaining it without causing too much alarm

The Picaninny Caricature - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University
Bogle, D. (1994). Toms, c00ns, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks: An interpretive history of Blacks in American films(New 3rd ed.). New York, NY: Continuum.

Fredrickson, G. M. (1971). The black image in the white mind: The debate on Afro-American character and destiny, 1817-1914. New York, NY: Harper & Row.

Leab, D. J. (1975/1976). From Sambo to Superspade: The black experience in motion pictures. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Lester, J., Bannerman, H., Pinkney, J., & Bierhorst, J. B. (1996). Sam and the tigers: A new telling of Little Black Sambo. New York, NY: Dial Books for Young Readers.

Lester, J. (1997). Little Black Sambo discussion from Child-Lit Listserv in November, 1997. Retrieved from Little Black Sambo Discussion.

Pilgrim, D. (2000). The c00n caricature. Retrieved from https://ferris.edu/jimcrow/c00n/.

 

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[Wild self]

I'm glad that your daughter got you as her mother. I wish I had this knowledge exposed to me when I was a kid...