Tag: Edwin Mellen Press

  • Madame E. Azalia Hackley was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-American people as a tool for social change. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement.

  • The Cry of Black Rage in African American Literature from Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright Edwin Mellen Press 2013 176 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-4077-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-4077-7 Steven Troy Moore, Assistant Professor of Language and Literature Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas This book examines the contrasting experiences of black rage that is exhibited in the writings of…

  • Biography of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967 Edwin Mellen Press 2002 248 pages ISBN 10:  0-7734-7088-3; ISBN 13:  978-0-7734-7088-0 John Chandler Griffin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of South Carolina, Lancaster This comprehensive biography of writer Jean Toomer, known as the Herald of the Harlem Renaissance, uses previously untapped sources, including lengthy meetings with Toomer’s widow…

  • This book examines significant aspects of President Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father both in relation to the African American literary tradition and to the context of the relevant historical and cultural productions that inform it.

  • Africa in Mexico: A Repudiated Heritage/África en México: una herencia repudiada Edwin Mellen Press 2007 140 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-5216-8; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-5216-9 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This study explores the African presence in Mexico and the impact it has had on the development of Mexican national identity over…

  • The Africanization of Mexico from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Edwin Mellen Press 2010 212 pages ISBN10: 0-7734-3781-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7734-3781-4 Marco Polo Hernández Cuevas, Asssociate Professor of Spanish North Carolina Central University This work is an Afrocentric analysis that subscribes to the notion that there is one human race of multiple ethnicities. It acknowledges…