Roots : the saga of an American family / by Haley, Alex

Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales / by Cartwright, Keith, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. …”

Colorization : one hundred years of Black films in a white world / by Haygood, Wil

Table of Contents: “…., James Edwards, Ike Jones, and Dorothy Dandridge -- The pricey Black movie that vanished, and how it came to be -- Two cool cats with Caribbean roots disrupt Hollywood -- Flashback, 1964 Academy Awards -- The hustlers, detectives, and pimps who stunned Hollywood -- Foxy Brown arrives, vanishes, and gets resurrected -- Flashback, 1972 Academy Awards -- Berry Gordy dares to make movies -- Kunta Kinte seizes the moment -- Aiming a camera in Brooklyn -- The blackout that haunted a decade -- An interlude, the ghost of Sidney -- The reckoning -- The front page -- Moving in the Moonlight -- The scourged back.…”

Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales / by Cartwright, Keith, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- Myth-making, mother-child-ness, and epic renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead -- pt. II. Bound cultures/the creolization of Dixie -- "Two heads fighting": African roots, geechee/gombo tales -- Creole self-fashioning: Joel Chandler Harris's "other fellow" -- Searching for spiritual soil: milk bonds and the "maumer tongue" -- pt. …”
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Reading Africa into American literature : epics, fables, and gothic tales / by Cartwright, Keith

Table of Contents: “…Myth-making, Mother-child-ness, and Epic Renamings: Malcolm X, Kunta Kinte, and Milkman Dead; I; II; Ill; Part II. …”
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