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Books by Eugene Redmond
Sides of the River (1969)
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Sentry of the
Four Golden Pillars (1970) /
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
(1971) /
Songs
from an Afro/Phone (1972)
In
a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) /
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) /
Drumvoices
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Images & Homages:
‘Memwars’
From the Eugene B.
Redmond Collection
Edited
by Howard Rambsy II
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“Listen closely to horn
licks on James Brown’s “Cold Sweat,” [and]
you’ll hear the spirit of Miles Davis.
daah-da! ... Alfred Ellis on sax invoking,
or better yet, invocating that famous “so
what” phrasing from . . . Davis’ Kind of
Blue album. For now, think of the Eugene
B.Redmond Collection [as] a ritual of
rhythmic invocations full of spirits past
and present. Redmond has taken more than one
hundred thousand photographs and collected
an equivalent number of cultural artifacts
such as volumes of poetry, posters, statues,
rare albums, and paintings. … What
distinguishes this collection is rhythm and
movement, the refusal of his images to sit
still. … [A] sustained commitment to
charting the activities of artists,
intellectuals, and activists constitutes the
other defining feature, and [is Redmond’s]
lifelong work. |
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Here is a poet and cultural
historian [dedicated] to documenting the rhythms of
artistic production and activism.
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Images & Homages
gives us a glimpse at Redmond’s ongoing
efforts to lyrically and visually transcribe
the sagas of drumvoices.” Containing 80
pages of stunning photos, visual
memorabilia, poetic (“kwansaba”) sketches,
and captions, this book photos of Maya
Angelou, Jabari Asim, James Baldwin, Amiri
Baraka, Harry Belafonte, Avery Brooks,
Stokley Carmichael, Marie A. Celestin,
Natalie Cole, Jayne Cortez, Roscoe
Crenshaw, Stanley Crouch, Harold Cruse,
Edwidge Danticat, Miles Davis, Ossie Davis,
Leon Damas (with Bernice Reagon), Henry
Dumas, Katherine Dunham, Ralph Ellison (with
Leon Forrest), Mari Evans (with Gwendolyn
Brooks), Sherman L. Fowler, Nikki Giovanni,
Danny Glover (with Toni Morrison & Susan
Taylor), Herbie Hancock, Eugene Haynes,
Calvin Hernton, John Lee Hooker . . . |
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Hudlin Brothers, Ahmad
Jamal, Percy James, Maulana Ron Karenga,
Spike Lee, Shirley LeFlore, Charlois
Lumpkin, K. Curtis Lyle, Haki Madhubuti
(with William Keorapetse Kgositsile & Alice
Walker), Jose Montoya, Queen Mother Moore,
Walter Mosley, Odetta, Euzhan Palcy, Gordon
Parks, Darlene Roy, Sonia Sanchez, Bobby
Seale, Ousmene Sembene, Betty Shabazz (with
Angela Davis), Wayne Shorter, Nina Simone,
Clark Terry, Askia Muhammad Toure, Clyde
Taylor, Eleanor Traylor, Quincy Troupe, Evon
Udoh, August Wilson, Oprah Winfrey (with
Coretta Scott King), & scores of others . .
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To obtain your copy of
Images & Homages
(ISBN 978-1-880748-63-3)
please fill out the form below and send
check or money order for $15.00 (plus $2
shipping and handling) per book to Editor,
Drumvoices Revue, Department of English, Box
1431, Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431.
Tel: (618) 650-3991 E-mail:
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Images & Homages (ISBN
1-880748-61-9) is part of the Drumvoices Revue
Supplement Series of catalogs, monographs, chapbooks,
pamphlets, and special-focus projects published since
1991 by the English Department of SIUE and the Eugene B.
Redmond Writers Club (P.O. Box 6165, East St. Louis, IL
62201).
Telephone: 618 650-3991; Fax: 618
650-3509; Email:
eredmon@siue.edu; Website:
www.siue/ENGLISH/dvr/.
Kwansabas for Maya Angelou
& Quincy Troupe’. Plus . . . Interviews with Angelou,
Troupe & Michael Datcher
posted 27 January 2008
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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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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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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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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