Etikett: afro-amerikansk historia
-
Walker, David F
”The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History” av David F Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson ”A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights…
-
Harrison, Vashti
”Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” av Vashti Harrison ”I made up my mind to try. I tried and I was successful. – Bessie Coleman Meet the little leaders. They’re brave. They’re bold. They changed the world. Did you know the treatment for leprosy was developed by a young scientist called Alice Ball? And…
-
Harrison, Vashti
”Dream Big, Little One” av Vashti Harrison ”Featuring 18 trailblazing black women in American history, this irresistible board book adaptation of ”Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” profiles women who took a stand against a world that didn’t always accept them. ” Förlagsinformation Format: Kartonnage Språk: Engelska Författare: Vashti Harrison Illustrationer: Vashiti Harrison Reading…
-
Selma
Måndag den 19 januari uppmärksammas Martin Luther King dag i USA och i över etthundra länder. Den 6 mars har den omtalade ”Selma”, som bland annat skildrar Martin Luther Kings kamp för lika rättigheter i USA, premiär i Sverige. ”Selma” av Ava DuVernay ”SELMA är berättelsen om Dr Martin Luther King Jr:s historiska kamp om…
-
Rankine, Claudia
Äntligen släpper Claudia Rankin ny poesi, “Citizen: An American Lyric” (december 2014). ”A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine’s long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine’s bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some…
-
Russel-Brown, Katheryn
”Little Melba and Her Big Trombone” av Katheryn Russell-Brown med illustrationer av Frank Morrison (2014) Bilderbok baserad på en sann historia! ”Melba Doretta Liston loved the sounds of music from as far back as she could remember. As a child, she daydreamed about beats and lyrics, and hummed along with the music from her family…
-
Maya Angelou
”Heart of a woman” av Maya Angelou. ”Maya Angelou’s five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son to move to New York. Loving the world, she knows its cruelty but also hope, joy, achievement…
-
Walker, Rebecca
”Black Cool-One Thousand Streams of Blackness” av Rebecca Walker ”Black Cool explores the ineffable state and aesthetic of Black Cool. From the effortless reserve of Miles Davis in khakis on an early album cover, to the shock of resistance in black women’s fashion from Angela Davis to Rihanna, to the cadence of poets as diverse…
-
Lewis, John
REKOMMENDATION #11 Linda, bibliotekarie på Serieteket ger sin sista serierekommendation här. Vi tackar för tipsen! ”Om kongressmannen John Lewis livslånga kamp för lika rättigheter inom amerikanska medborgarrättsrörelsen. Intressant historieskrivning.”/Linda ”March: Book 1” av John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, med illustrationer av Nate Powell. ”Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key…
-
Miller, Frank
Våra serietips från Serietekets Linda Gustafsson fortsätter! REKOMMENDATION #6 ”The Life and Times of Martha Washington”, text Frank Miller, illustrationer Dave Gibbons. ”Uppmärksammar ämnen som miljö, fattigdom, politik, klass genom frihetskämpen Martha Washington. Genom Martha Washington ställs även många stereotypa fördomar om kvinnor (och kanske ännu tydligare: färgade kvinnor), på ända. Martha är aldrig ett…
-
Anderson, Ho Che
Lindas serietips fortsätter: REKOMMENDATION #5 ”King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.” text och bild HoChe Anderson ”Prisad journalistisk biografi om Martin Luther Kings liv, kamp i medborgarrättsrörelsen och död. En viktig bit historia.”/Linda ”A landmark graphic novel about the civil rights leader, complete in one volume. This groundbreaking body of comics journalism…
-
Phillips, Dee
”Runaway: The Story of a Slave” av Dee Phillips. ”Jag föddes som slav. Hela min familj tillhör en slavägare. Men i natt ska jag rymma och jag kommer aldrig tillbaka. En slavs berättelse. Boken ingår i en serie historiska bildromaner, se också ”The Holocaust: The Story of a Survivor”. Bilderna är i mustiga färger, och…
-
Miller, Frank
”The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty-First Century” av Frank Miller med illustrationer av Dave Gibbons. ”A masterpiece nearly twenty years in the making, this archival volume contains the complete life story of Martha Washington, the twenty-first century freedom fighter created by comic-book megastars Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) and Dave Gibbons…
-
Hamilton, Virginia
”Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales” av Virginia Hamilton ”In the tradition of Hamilton’s ”The People Could Fly and In the Beginning”, a dramatic new collection of 25 compelling tales from the female African American storytelling tradition. Each story focuses on the role of women–both real and fantastic–and their particular strengths,…
-
Martin, Michelle
”Brown gold : milestones of African American children’s picture books, 1845-2002” av Michelle H. Martin ”Brown Gold is a compelling history and analysis of African-American children’s picturebooks from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. At the turn of the nineteenth century, good children’s books about black life were hard to find – if, indeed, young…