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- Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple commentaries: A Nietzschean reading.
- Creator
- Angelone, Tina., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of the Apollonian/Dionysian opposition found in The Birth of Tragedy provides a means to analyze Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple commentaries. The language and archetypal characters found in the Semple commentaries demonstrates the shifting balance between the struggles and the triumphs of some American Negroes. This shifting balance is represented by the Dionysian and Apollonian traits of Simple and the narrator, Boyd. By creating these characters, Hughes is...
Show moreFriedrich Nietzsche's notion of the Apollonian/Dionysian opposition found in The Birth of Tragedy provides a means to analyze Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple commentaries. The language and archetypal characters found in the Semple commentaries demonstrates the shifting balance between the struggles and the triumphs of some American Negroes. This shifting balance is represented by the Dionysian and Apollonian traits of Simple and the narrator, Boyd. By creating these characters, Hughes is able to display the importance of the low-down culture for some black artists. Through the intoxicated Dionysian insight of Semple and the Apollonian logos of the narrator, Hughes demonstrates the blending of folk tradition or myth to common sense or reality. Ultimately, the struggle between these characters constructs the image of the New Negro, as well as the creative framework of the Harlem Renaissance.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2004
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13143
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Modern, History, Black, Literature, American
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Sara Lee Creech and the Saralee Doll: Ambassadors of peace.
- Creator
- Lucas, Karen Elizabeth., Florida Atlantic University, Bannan, Helen M.
- Abstract/Description
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The Saralee Doll created by Sara Lee Creech in 1948 and manufactured from 1950-53 illuminated issues--gender, race and even American business histories. The doll was one of the forerunners of modern black doll manufacturing in the United States. In the period between the end of World War II and the end of the Korean Conflict, the Black American image was devalued but Creech attempted to change that image. Creech hoped that the creation of mass-marketed quality black doll would aid children of...
Show moreThe Saralee Doll created by Sara Lee Creech in 1948 and manufactured from 1950-53 illuminated issues--gender, race and even American business histories. The doll was one of the forerunners of modern black doll manufacturing in the United States. In the period between the end of World War II and the end of the Korean Conflict, the Black American image was devalued but Creech attempted to change that image. Creech hoped that the creation of mass-marketed quality black doll would aid children of all races in developing understanding and respect for other people and cultures. After it was discontinued, it took more than a decade and a half and the catalyst of the civil rights movement before quality black dolls became a staple in the mass American toy market. Creech's struggle to bring the doll to market parallels the Black American struggle for acceptance within society. The creation of the Saralee doll, its promotion, production and eventual demise are an important reflection of the social context of the United States in the late 1940's and early 1950's.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15038
- Subject Headings
- Black dolls--History, Dollmakers, Creech, Sara Lee
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- All power to the people: the Black Panther Party as the vanguard of the oppressed.
- Creator
- Berman, Matthew., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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The Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers...
Show moreThe Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers quickly evolved into a revolutionary vanguard with a non-racial, class-oriented agenda.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77656, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77656
- Subject Headings
- African Americans, Politics and government, Civil rights movements, History, Black nationalism, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The evolution of hard-boiled detective fiction in "Black Mask".
- Creator
- O'Connor, Linda Marie., Florida Atlantic University, Anderson, David R.
- Abstract/Description
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Pulp fiction played an integral part in the development of mystery fiction through its establishment of hard-boiled fiction as a genre. Although a number of pulp magazines were popular between the 1920s and the 1940s, one of the most influential and well-remembered of these magazines was the Black Mask, which was the magazine primarily responsible for establishing "hard-boiled" detective fiction as a genre through the development of the hard-boiled fiction formula, as well as cementing the...
Show morePulp fiction played an integral part in the development of mystery fiction through its establishment of hard-boiled fiction as a genre. Although a number of pulp magazines were popular between the 1920s and the 1940s, one of the most influential and well-remembered of these magazines was the Black Mask, which was the magazine primarily responsible for establishing "hard-boiled" detective fiction as a genre through the development of the hard-boiled fiction formula, as well as cementing the careers of some of the most well-known mystery writers, such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Erie Stanley Gardner. Through a close reading of these authors and other authors who appeared in the Black Mask from the 1920s to the 1940s, changes in societal values, as well as in hard-boiled fiction as a genre, may be seen.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1995
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15141
- Subject Headings
- Detective and mystery stories, American--History and criticism, Crime in literature, American fiction--20th century, Literature and society--United States, Black mask
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Finding their voice: Identifying signifiers of women's agency and empowerment in the work of Haitian women artists.
- Creator
- Kirchen, Anita Mary, Florida Atlantic University, Beoku-Betts, Josephine
- Abstract/Description
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Although the work of women artists has been widely discussed within feminist scholarship from a Euro-American perspective, there is currently little published discourse on the visual art produced by Third-World women within the context of postcolonial and Black feminist theories. This study explores the hypothesis that using the lens of postcolonial and Black feminist theories to examine the work of women artists situated in a Third World environment may identify signifiers of women's agency...
Show moreAlthough the work of women artists has been widely discussed within feminist scholarship from a Euro-American perspective, there is currently little published discourse on the visual art produced by Third-World women within the context of postcolonial and Black feminist theories. This study explores the hypothesis that using the lens of postcolonial and Black feminist theories to examine the work of women artists situated in a Third World environment may identify signifiers of women's agency and empowerment.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15733
- Subject Headings
- Art, Haitian--Women artists, Black--History and criticism, Feminist theory, Feminism and art--Haiti, Minority women artists--Developing countries
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The position and duties of the merchant : an address before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, on the evening of the 13th of November, 1854.
- Creator
- Sumner, Charles 1811-1874, Ticknor and Fields (Boston, Mass.)
- Abstract/Description
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Traces the career of Granville Sharp in his fight for the emancipation of the slave in England and illustrates a merchant's influence for good. Address before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston. Includes verse. "Thurston and Torry, printers."--verso of title page. FAU copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord; edges trimmed to 23 cm.
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb17f19
- Subject Headings
- Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century, Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century, Blacks -- England -- History -- 18th century, England -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century, Great Britain -- Commerce -- History, Merchants -- Great Britain, Sharp, Granville -- 1735-1813, Slave trade -- England -- History -- 18th century, Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century
- Format
- E-book
- Title
- New Smyrna the beautiful: In the summer land of Florida.
- Creator
- Dumble, A.E.
- Abstract/Description
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Book about New Smyrna, Florida by A.E. Dumble in which letters from settlers describe life in the town. Book details fishing, hunting, citrus growing, and local points of interest. Book contains illustrations and black-and-white photographs.
- Date Issued
- 1904
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000142
- Subject Headings
- New Smyrna (Fla.) -- History, Landscape photography -- Florida -- New Smyrna -- Photographs, New Smyrna (Fla.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs, Black-and-white photography -- Florida -- New Smyrna -- Photographs, Fishers -- Florida -- New Smyrna -- Photographs, Wild flowers -- Florida -- New Smyrna -- Photographs
- Format
- E-book