Product Description: In an increasingly globalized cultural landscape, artists are often asked to represent their "home" country. But what if identifying home is a complex matter? The Queens Museum of Art organized the exhibition Generation 1.5 with this sort of ambiguity of origin in mind...read more

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Offers brief biographical sketches of obscure and well-known African American authors including twenty new authors who have gained prominence since the mid-1980s.

The essays in this collection provide a variety of perspectives on black representation and questions of racial authenticity in mainstream as well as African American independent cinema. This volume includes seminal essays on racial stereotypes, trenchant critiques of that discourse, original essays on important directors such as Haile Gerima and Charles Burnett, and an insightful discussion of black gay and lesbian film and video. The contributors include Donald Bogle, Thomas Cripps, Jane Gaines, Nathan Grant, Stuart Hall, Tommy L. Lott, Wahneema Lubiano, Mike Murashige, Valerie Smith, James Snead, and David Van Leer. This volume is an important contribution to the Depth of Field series and should be indispensible for courses and individual scholars in film and multicultural studies. The book contains a mix of original and previously published pieces.

A chronicle of African-American writers and their work encompasses two centuries and includes profiles of James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and many others. Reprint.

Product Description: Fun Play! Developed for California's South Coast Repertory Young Conservatory Players, this is the comic portrayal of a co-ed baseball team confronting the worst slump of the season -- without the coach. 8 boys, 6 girls, ages 8-16...read more