Black lives : essays in African American biography / edited by James L. Conyers, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conyers, James L., Jr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Biography--History and criticism.

African Americans--Biography--Study and teaching.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1999]

Summary:

These fifteen chapters comprise groundbreaking biographical sketches of notable but heretofore unknown (or lesser known) African Americans, among them General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (the first African American four-star general in the U.S. Air Force); William Levi Dawson (a composer); Vinnette Carroll (a director and playwright); Elizabeth Ross Haynes (an early political speaker and activist); Richard Allen (founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church); Besse Head (a South African-born writer); Maria Stewart (a nineteenth-century African American writer); and a number of others.

Contents:

I Intellectual Biography

1 Maulana Karenga, Kawaida, and Phenomenology: An Intellectual Study / James L. Conyers, Jr

2 Vinnette Carroll: African American Director/Playwright / Calvin A. McClinton

3 Higher Than the Eagle: The Legacy of General / Daniel “Chappie” James Jr, Earnest Bracey

4 The Shaping of a Public Biography: Richard Allen and the A.M.E. Church, 1831-1894 / Mitchell Kachun

II Cultural Biography

5 Outlaw Women and Toni Morrison's Communities / Gloria T. Randle

6 Basse Head: The Idealist / Owan G. Mordaunt

7 Working Toward the Betterment of the Community / Elizabeth Ross Haynes, La Verne Gyant

8 William Levi Dawson: A Black Composer Speaks / Ralph Anthony Russell

9 Keeping the Truth on My Side: Maria Stewart, 1803-1870 / Ida Young

III Oral History and Biography as Teaching Tools

10 Through Trinbagonian Eyes: Self Potrait of a Carribean Country / Clement London

11 Life Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: Black Female Slave Narratives and Communication Scholarship / Olga I. Davis

12 Literary Biographical Profiles as Teaching Tools in a University Black History Course / Robin Balthrope

13 Malcolm X: An Intellectual Aesthetic for Black Adult Education / Andrew Smallwood

14 Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey of Achimota: A Preacher, Scholar, Teacher, and a Gentleman / Daniel Boamah-Wiafe

15 Bothersome Biography: Emmett Jay Scott, 1873-1957 / Maceo Crenshaw Dailey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765603292

OCLC:

38504341