Discusses the oral and written life histories and other personal testimonies of African Americans. It clears up the realities behind invisible enclaves and spotlight of the immigrant's own history. Professor John H. McWhorter argues that modern America is the home to millions of immigrants who were born in Africa. He notes that their cultures and identities are separated between Africa and the U.S. However, his vision of an unencumbered, native-born black ownership of black is considered optimistic. Transnational identities of immigrants and their children are formed, negotiated and projected primarily within their experiences.
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1 microfiche, Deep river, by M. M. Fisher.--The attitude of the free Negro toward African colonization, by L. Mehlinger.--Pan-Negro nationalism in the New World, before 1862, by H. R. Lynch.--The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa, by A. Crummell.--A project for an expedition of adventure to the eastern coast of Africa, by M. R. Delany.--The call of providence to the descendants of Africa in America, by E. W. Blyden.--Bishop Turner's African dream, by E. S. Redkey.--Alfred Charles Sam and an African return: a case study in Negro despair, by W. Bittle and G. Geis.--Booker T. Washington and the white man's burden, by L. Harlan.--DuBois and pan-Africa, by R. B. Moore.--Black Moses: Marcus Garvey and Garveyism, by E. D. Cronon.--Hide my face? The literary renaissance, by St. Clair Drake.--Notes on Negro American influences on the emergence of African nationalism, by G. Shepperson.--Something new out of Africa, by H. R. Isaacs.--Africa-conscious Harlem, by R. B. Moore.--Malcolm X: an international man, by R. M. and E. U. Essien-Udom.--Black power and colonialism, by J. Lester.
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Originally broadcast on the television program Booknotes on November 7, 1999. Brian Lamb interviews Eugene Robinson about his book Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. The book examines race relations in the United States and much of the Western Hemisphere by looking at Mr. Robinson's personal experiences in the U.S. and Brazil, where he noted that racism is rare but inequality still exists.
Within sectors of North America's African-American community, the colloquial expression "being touched by the brush" describes a multi-ethnic individual that possesses subtle Negroid physical features which are only detectable by close inspection by a "trained eye." Here, Edison discusses the historical factors in Puerto Rico and Panama that make up the foundation upon which Francisco Arrivi's "Los Vejigantes" and Carlos Guillermo Wilson's "Chombo" were constructed.;