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268 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm. |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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© 2015 by New York University. |
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"(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue," music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks, words by Andy Razaf. Copyright © 1929 (Renewed) EMI Mills Music, Inc., Chappell & Co., Inc., and Razaf Music Co. All Rights Reserved. Selected lyrics used by permission of Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., and Bienstock Publishing Company on behalf of Redwood Music Ltd. |
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"This Is Just to Say," by William Carlos Williams, from Collected Poems: Volume I, 1909-1939. Copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Carcanet Press Ltd. |
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"The Colonel," by Carolyn Forché, from The Country between Us. Copyright © 1981 by Carolyn Forché. Previously published by Women's International Resource Exchange. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Carolyn Forché. |
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Manufactured in the United States of America. |
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Also available as an ebook. |
Credits |
Book design and composition by Nicole Hayward. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Black Personhood in the Maw of Abstraction -- Historical Cadence and the Nitty-Gritty Effect -- Telling It Slant -- Coda: The Literary Advantage. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2021. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
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All rights reserved. |
Subject |
African American aesthetics.
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Abstraction.
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African American arts -- Themes, motives.
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African.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9781479865437 paper |
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9781479818365 paper |
Standard No. |
2027/heb33939 hdl |
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