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Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Writings

Bracey, Earnest N.
Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Writings
The Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Writings compiles articles written by Earnest N. Bracey, Ph.D. that explore critical political issues facing African Americans, past and present. Students learn about the history of racism in American and sustained transgressions against people of color. The text empowers them to confront systemic racism and the structural racial injustices that continue on today. Part I features articles ...

CHF 136.00

The Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Wr...

Bracey, Earnest N.
The Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Writings
The Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Writings compiles articles written by Earnest N. Bracey, Ph.D. that explore critical political issues facing African Americans, past and present. Students learn about the history of racism in American and sustained transgressions against people of color. The text empowers them to confront systemic racism and the structural racial injustices that continue on today. Part I features articles ...

CHF 88.00

The Dambe Fighter

Bracey, Earnest N.
The Dambe Fighter
Jabbo Okeleke becomes a successful Dambe fighter in his own right while making himself a cut above other boxers. This is also a riveting story that provides a contemporary portrait of a Nigerian fighter, who knows what he wants in life: to become an undisputed boxing champion. As Jabbo Okeleke endeavours to achieve his goals in boxing, in all his glory, he has nothing to lose or hide, as he is confronted with ugly African myths, half-truths, ...

CHF 14.50

The Big Black Three and Other Short Stories

Bracey, Earnest N.
The Big Black Three and Other Short Stories
Despite the seemingly endless obstacles placed in their paths for centuries, African Americans have somehow survived, even in a polarized country, while bravely confronting white prejudice, racial injustice, and discrimination. In a volume of ten stories, Earnest Bracey shares insight into the lives of diverse characters often uplifted by rhythm and blues music while facing terrible domestic situations, death, and racism in a harsh and complex...

CHF 39.90

The Big Black Three and Other Short Stories

Bracey, Earnest N.
The Big Black Three and Other Short Stories
Despite the seemingly endless obstacles placed in their paths for centuries, African Americans have somehow survived, even in a polarized country, while bravely confronting white prejudice, racial injustice, and discrimination. In a volume of ten stories, Earnest Bracey shares insight into the lives of diverse characters often uplifted by rhythm and blues music while facing terrible domestic situations, death, and racism in a harsh and complex...

CHF 14.50

Miles Davis, and Jazz as Religion

Bracey, Earnest N.
Miles Davis, and Jazz as Religion
This book is about the late Miles Davis and his life as a Black musician. Davis was unquestionably the most important jazz man during his era. This work also explores the spirituality of jazz or "social music, " as it relates to the music genre and Miles Davis.

CHF 129.00

Dark Labyrinth

Bracey, Earnest N.
Dark Labyrinth
Earnest Bracey is a man who loves music. He played his jazz trumpet at several venues in Japan, as well as at the One Step Down jazz club in Washington, D.C. He was a jazz trumpet soloist in the acclaimed Jazz Big Band at Jackson State University in the late 1970s, and his love for music has poured into his love of prose. Dark Labyrinth is a collection of poems about music and so much more. Many of Bracey's poems reference the power of the blu...

CHF 24.50

An Evening with Frederick Douglass

Bracey, Earnest N.
An Evening with Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave who fled north and overcame incredible adversity and extreme hardships to become one of the greatest abolitionists of his time. Douglass, who was best known for his writings and oratorical career, was passionate about fighting the horrors of white supremacy and liberating former black slaves in the United States. In this two-act play, Dr. Earnest Bracey, a professor of African American history, not only a...

CHF 17.50

An Evening with Frederick Douglass

Bracey, Earnest N.
An Evening with Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave who fled north and overcame incredible adversity and extreme hardships to become one of the greatest abolitionists of his time. Douglass, who was best known for his writings and oratorical career, was passionate about fighting the horrors of white supremacy and liberating former black slaves in the United States. In this two-act play, Dr. Earnest Bracey, a professor of African American history, not only a...

CHF 44.50

Daniel ""Chappie"" James

Bracey, Earnest N.
Daniel ""Chappie"" James
General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., USAF, fought in three American wars and became the first African American to attain the rank of four-star general in the United States Armed Forces. He was a talented military leader, an excellent orator and an advocate for equal rights for blacks in the military. James was once one of the most powerful men in the world, and today he is often classed with such great American generals as Patton, MacArthur an...

CHF 52.50

On Racism

Bracey, Earnest N.
On Racism
This book provides the general reader with an understanding of competing perspectives necessary to evaluate several aspects of black popular culture, multiculturalism, racial prejudice, politics, Affirmative Action, social justice, and the varied lives of African American leaders.

CHF 93.00

Fannie Lou Hamer

Bracey, Earnest N
Fannie Lou Hamer
This book explores the life of one of Mississippi's greatest civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She is particularly remembered for her speech before the Creden...

CHF 51.90

The Comedy of War

Bracey, Earnest N.
The Comedy of War
The Comedy of War is an overview of military politics, strategy, and the causes of war utilizing books and films as source texts: The Art of War by Sun Tzu, on War by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz, and The Butter Battle by Dr. Seuss, (the films) Antz and A Bug's Life. This work offers systematic interpretations of what goes on before and after war, and the political and strategic implications of warfare. It provides interesting and plau...

CHF 64.00

Places in Political Time

Bracey, Earnest N.
Places in Political Time
Places in Political Time approaches the black African Diaspora phenomenon from a new perspective, considering cultural myths, history, allegories, and other stories, which present the human condition from a black American perspective. The essays describe and evaluate tough questions on racism and uncomfortable truths about people within the Black Diaspora, exploring how people of color interact with themselves and dominate cultures.

CHF 99.00

Places in Political Time

Bracey, Earnest N.
Places in Political Time
Places in Political Time approaches the black African Diaspora phenomenon from a new perspective, considering cultural myths, history, allegories, and other stories, which present the human condition from a black American perspective. The essays describe and evaluate tough questions on racism and uncomfortable truths about people within the Black Diaspora, exploring how people of color interact with themselves and dominate cultures.

CHF 74.00

Petrified Life and Other Short Stories

Bracey, Earnest N.
Petrified Life and Other Short Stories
This provocative book tries to give a modern-day voice to the Black American experience, as it vividly, painstakingly, and accurately depicts the sad and continuing struggles of the descendants of Black African slaves in the United States. This mesmerizing work further weaves the human tragedy, social boundaries, pathetic comedy, jubilation, alienation, and racial conflicts Black Americans face with whites or the dominant group every day, part...

CHF 40.50

Petrified Life and Other Short Stories

Bracey, Earnest N.
Petrified Life and Other Short Stories
This provocative book tries to give a modern-day voice to the Black American experience, as it vividly, painstakingly, and accurately depicts the sad and continuing struggles of the descendants of Black African slaves in the United States. This mesmerizing work further weaves the human tragedy, social boundaries, pathetic comedy, jubilation, alienation, and racial conflicts Black Americans face with whites or the dominant group every day, part...

CHF 25.50

Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas

Bracey, Earnest N
Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas
Originally opened in May 1955, the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino quickly rose in popularity as Las Vegas' first racially-integrated hotel and casino. Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong, and other A-list black singers and musicians performed at the Moulin Rouge on a regular basis, and for once they were allowed to spend the night in the same hotel where they performed.This book explains the important role that the hotel-casino played in early de...

CHF 52.50