Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America

1988 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Peter Kolchin ◽  
Sterling Stuckey
Keyword(s):  
Black America

Two Nations of Black America

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Louis Gates
Keyword(s):  
Black America

Mobilizing Black America

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip M. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Black America

scholarly journals “They Made us into a Race. We Made Ourselves into a People”: A Corpus Study of Contemporary Black American Group Identity in the Non-Fictional Writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Hathaway
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Black People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Black American ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Black America ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
American Group ◽  
Identity Based

AbstractThis article examines representations of contemporary Black American identity in the non-fictional writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates. The dataset is a self-compiled specialized corpus of Coates’s non-fictional writings from 1996 until 2018 (350 texts; 468,899 words). The study utilizes an interdisciplinary approach combining corpus linguistics and corpus pragmatics. Frequencies of five identity-related terms in the corpus (African(–)Americans, blacks, black people, black America/Americans and black community/communities) are compared diachronically; then the pragmatic prosody of the terms is analyzed via the notion of control. The findings suggest that Coates’s representation of Black American group identity has shifted over time. Specifically, the terms African Americans and black America are replaced by the terms blacks and black people. The study’s empirical findings, considered through the theoretical framework on Black solidarity, suggest a shift in representation of group identity in Coates’s writings from an identity based on cultural and ethnic commonalities to an identity based on the shared experiences of anti-Black racism.

The Music of Black America in Arts Education

1985 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
Carlesta Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Arts Education ◽  
Black America

Re-Africanization: The Last Alternative for Black America

1977 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Alfred Cannon
Keyword(s):  
Black America
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