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| 1. |  | Title: Redefining Black film Author: Reid, Mark (Mark A.) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | African American Studies Publisher's Description: Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered "black films"? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous bl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Athens and Macedon: Attic letter-cutters of 300 to 229 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know - or might know - about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E Author: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art and Architecture | Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C  Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Interstate arbitrations in the Greek world, 337-90 B.C. Author: Ager, Sheila L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Early Greek law Author: Gagarin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Politics | Law Publisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | African American Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Revenge in Attic and later tragedy Author: Burnett, Anne Pippin 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Staged narrative: poetics and the messenger in Greek tragedy Author: Barrett, James 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, the slaughter of Aigisthos, and the death of Hippolytus, among other important even . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | Politics Publisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Public Policy | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | African American Studies | Social Problems | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | European History Publisher's Description: For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the vast majority . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Black African cinema Author: Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmakin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Author: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African History Publisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more] Similar Items |