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Books by Marcus Bruce
Christian
Song of the Black Valiants: Marching Tempo
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High Ground: A Collection of Poems /
Negro soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans
I am New
Orleans: A Poem
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900 /
The Liberty Monument
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Christian
Complains about Schuyler
Critique of the State of Black
Letters PITTSBURGH
COURIER
2628
Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh,
PA.,
Mayflower
1401
Dear
Mr. Christian:
Many
thanks for your cordial letter and for the poetry clippings from
the Louisiana Weekly. I am very glad to see it and congratulate
both you and the newspaper for inaugurating and maintaining it.
I am sorry that this paper has no poetry department.
I
certainly did not mean to convey the impression that no one was
thinking of belles letters but me. I am aware that there are
thousands of lovers of fine writing in Aframerica. My only wish
was that there might be some medium known to and available to
all in which the best might appear, such as The Crisis in
the days of DuBois, the Opportunity magazine when edited
by Charles S. Johnson, and the old Messenger magazine
when Randolph, Owen and I were guiding its destinies.
I
regret that you should think some readers had to tell me about
the need for such a medium ('getting me told'). I should
certainly feel ashamed if after fifteen years in and around the
writing and publishing game I should have to be reminded by
readers (none has mentioned it, as a matter of fact) of the
desirability of a medium for the development of fine writing.
Naturally I cannot devote my column to it often -- there are
many other things upon which to comment.
Your
letter, however, is very thought-provoking and I plan to quote
here and there from it in the hope of arousing further interest,
Sincerely
yours,
George
S. Schuyler
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| George Schuyler (1895-1977), born in
Providence , Rhode island, enlisted with the United States Army
in 1912 and worked his way to the rank of lieutenant.
After the First World war Schuyler moved to New York City
where he worked as a laborer and later as a journalist on The
Messenger in 1923. For awhile a member of the socialist
Party, Schuyler contributed to a wide variety of radical
journals including Opportunity, Crisis, and Nation. |
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Schuyler eventually became associate editor of the
Pittsburgh Courier. He supplied the weekly paper with a regular
column and was one of its chief editorial writers. On one
assignment he took the Jim Crow tour of the Southern states.
books written by Schuyler include The Negro Art Hokum
(1926),
Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia
(1930) and
Black
No More (1931).
During the McCarthy era Schuyler moved sharply to the right
and contributed to American Opinion, the journal of the
John Birch Society. In 1947 Schuyler published
The Communist
Conspiracy Against the Negroes.
Black and Conservative
(1966),
his autobiography, was published in 1966. George Schuyler died
in 1977. |
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Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George S.
Schuyler / Robert A. Hill, ed.
Ethiopian Stories. Northeastern University Press, 1996
Jeffrey B. Leak
ed.
Rac(E)Ing to the Right: Selected Essays of
George S. Schuyler. University of
Tennessee Press, 2001
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Selected Letters
Selected Diary Notes Memories of Marcus B. Christian
(Cains) Christian's
BioBibliographical Record Introduction to I AM NEW
ORLEANS
A
Theory of a Black Aesthetic Magpies,
Goddesses, & Black Male Identity
Activist Works on Next Level of Change
Intro to I Am New
Orleans
Letter from Dillard University
A
Labor of Genuine Love
Letter of Gift of
Photos
Letters from
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900
By Marcus Bruce Christian
Study of the blacksmith
tradition and New Orleans famous lace balconies
and fences.
Acclaimed
during his life as the unofficial poet laureate
of the New Orleans African-American community,
Marcus Christian recorded a distinguished career
as historian, journalist, and literary scholar.
He was a contributor to Pelican's
Gumbo Ya Ya, and also wrote many
articles that appeared in numerous newspapers,
journals, and general-interest publications.
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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