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The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature
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The Word in Black and White: Reading The Word in Black and White: Reading

Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism.
 
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Tags: Anglo, American, places, readings, historical, Black, Reading, White
From Quarks to Black Holes: Interviewing the Universe
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From Quarks to Black Holes: Interviewing the UniverseThis title presents a series of interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy, and even the vacuum itself, reveal their innermost secrets - not only what they are but also how they feel. A hydrogen atom tells us about quantum mechanics and why we live in a non-deterministic world; a black hole explains curved space and naked singularities; and a uranium atom talks of its life on a meteor, its tremendous collision with Earth, and properties of radioactivity - all while grappling with its own mortality...
 
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Tags: black, meteor, tremendous, collision, talks
Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
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Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and TechniquesCreative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Black-and-white photography poses unique challenges; without color to guide the eye, contrast, lighting, and composition take on even more importance. Renowned photographer Harold Davis explains these elements and demonstrates the basic rules of black and white photography as well as when and how to break them.
 
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Tags: photography, Black, white, basic, rules, Black, photography, Creative, Techniques
Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality In Women's Narratives Of Slavery
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Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality In Women's Narratives Of Slavery

Analyzes Black women’s rhetorical strategies in both autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery.
In Speaking Power, DoVeanna S. Fulton explores and analyzes the use of oral traditions in African American women’s autobiographical and fictional narratives of slavery. African American women have consistently employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation of slavery, but also to celebrate the subversions, struggles, and triumphs of Black experience. Fulton examines orality as a rhetorical strategy, its role in passing on family and personal history...
 
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Tags: slavery, women, Black, Power, Fulton, Speaking
Black Boy (Bloom's Guides)
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Black Boy (Bloom's Guides)Black Boy (Bloom's Guides)

"Black Boy" is a firsthand account of what it was like to come-of-age in the South during the Jim Crow era. Richard Wright's story is an emotional journey through violence, abandonment, neglect, and hunger, as well as blatant racial discrimination. This new addition to the "Bloom's Guides" series delves into "Black Boy" with critical excerpts examining this novelistic autobiography, an annotated bibliography of Wright's works, an index for easy reference, and an introductory essay from literature professor Harold Bloom.
 
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Tags: Bloom, Black, Guides, Wright, novelistic