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African American firsts : famous, little-known and unsung triumphs of Blacks in America / by Potter, Joan,author.;
Business -- Education -- Entertainment -- Film -- History -- Journalism Law and Government -- Literature -- Military -- Music -- Religion -- Science and Medicine -- Sports -- Theater and Dance -- Visual Arts.Spanning colonial days to the present, African American Firsts is a clear reflection of a prideful legacy, a celebration of our changing times, and a signpost to an even greater future. From ground-breaking achievements to awe-inspiring feats of excellence, this definitive resource reveals over 450 "firsts" by African Americans in fields as diverse as government, entertainment, education, science, medicine, law, the military, and the business world. Discover the first doctor to perform open heart surgery and the youngest person to fly solo around the world. Learn about the first African Americans to walk in space, to serve two terms as President of the United States, and many other wonderful and important contributions often accomplished despite poverty, discrimination, and racism.
Subjects: Biographies.; Trivia and miscellanea.; African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Augusta Savage : Renaissance woman / by Hayes, Jeffreen M.,author.(CARDINAL)352354; Buick, Kirsten Pai,contributor.(CARDINAL)313535; Cooks, Bridget R.,1972-contributor.(CARDINAL)782750; Dodson, Howard,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)277022; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens,organizer,host institution.(CARDINAL)226441;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This is a timely, visual, exploration of the fascinating life and lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), who overcame poverty, racism, and sexual discrimination to become one of America's most influential twentieth-century artists. Her story is one of community-building, activism, and art education. Born just outside Jacksonville, Florida, Savage left the South to pursue new opportunities and opened a studio in Harlem, New York City, offering free art classes. She co-founded the Harlem Artists' Guild in 1935 and became the first director of the federally-supported Harlem Community Art Center. Through her leadership there, Savage played an instrumental role in the development of many artists: William Artis, Gwendolyn Knight, Gwendolyn Bennett, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Blackburn, Romare Bearden, among many others. This ground-breaking volume features fifty works by Savage, and those she mentored or influenced, as well as correspondence and period photographs.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Savage, Augusta, 1892-1962; Women sculptors; African American sculptors; African American sculpture;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Protest! : a history of social and political protest graphics / by McQuiston, Liz,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-275) and index.An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art. Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at protest graphics. Beginning in the Reformation, when printed visual matter was first produced in multiples, Liz McQuiston follows the iconic images that have accompanied movements and events around the world. She examines fine art and propaganda, including William Hogarth's Gin Lane, Thomas Nast's political caricatures, French and British comics, postcards from the women's suffrage movement, clothing of the 1960s counterculture, the anti-apartheid illustrated book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, the "Silence=Death" emblem from the AIDS crisis, murals created during the Arab Spring, electronic graphics from Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, and the front cover of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Providing a visual exploration both joyful and brutal, McQuiston discusses how graphics have been used to protest wars, call for the end to racial discrimination, demand freedom from tyranny, and satirize authority figures and regimes. From the French, Mexican, and Sandinista revolutions to the American civil rights movement, nuclear disarmament, and the Women's March of 2017, Protest! documents the integral role of the visual arts in passionate efforts for change.
Subjects: Political art; Political posters; Social movements in art.; Politics in art.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Healthy me a,b,c [kit] by Sprout learning.;
Contents: 1 clear backpack containing 2 board books, 1 paperback book, 1 plastic basket, 1 plastic asparagus, 1 plastic broccoli, 1 plastic carrot, 1 plastic corn, 1 plastic cucumber, 1 plastic eggplant, 1 plastic red pepper, 1 plastic yellow pepper, 1 plastic potato, 1 activity sheet, and 1 contents sheet"Use the enclosed materials to build your child's understanding of letter recognition and sound discrimination while also exploring healthy foods. Work with your child as you practice the activities contained in this kit." --
Subjects: Colors; Form perception; Visual perception; Vocabulary; English language; Fruit; Vegetables; Alphabet; Kindergarten;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Zanele Muholi : somnyama ngonyama = hail the dark lioness / by Muholi, Zanele,photographer,artist,interviewee.(CARDINAL)331918; Mussai, Renée,interviewer,contributor.(CARDINAL)855413; Azuah, Unoma Nguemo,contributor.(CARDINAL)873262; Bongela, Milisuthando,contributor.; Budge, Ama Josephine,contributor.; Clarke, Cheryl,1947-contributor.(CARDINAL)733376; Bruin-Derakhshani, Fariba de,contributor.(CARDINAL)872194; Dlamini, Andiswa,contributor.; Eyene, Christine,contributor.(CARDINAL)873364; Garb, Tamar,contributor.(CARDINAL)189675; Golden, Thelma,contributor.(CARDINAL)209039; Hackett, Sophie,1971-contributor.(CARDINAL)873432; Jayawardane, Neelika,contributor.(CARDINAL)873607; Kiguwa, Peace,contributor.(CARDINAL)873034; Lehong, Mapula,contributor.; Magona, Sindiwe,contributor.(CARDINAL)682339; Masheane, Napo,contributor.(CARDINAL)873465; Mokoena, Hlonipha,contributor.(CARDINAL)873425; Mondi, Jackie,contributor.; Nqelenga, Pumelela "Push",contributor.; Onabanjo, Oluremi C.,contributor.(CARDINAL)850177; Talmor, Ruti,contributor.(CARDINAL)873647; van Zyl, Christie,contributor.; Williams, Carla,1965-contributor.(CARDINAL)421307; Willis, Deborah,1948-contributor.(CARDINAL)172317; Aperture Foundation,publisher.(CARDINAL)195492;
Includes bibliographical references."With the series Somnyama Ngonyama, I have decided to turn the camera on myself. In contrast to my life-long project of documenting members of my black LGBTI community in South Africa and beyond, one in which I normally have the privilege of witnessing participants' presentation of themselves according to their own self-image, with this new work I have created portraits in which I am both participant and image-maker. Somnyama Ngonyama (meaning 'Hail, the Dark Lioness') is an unflinchingly personal approach I have taken as a visual activist to confronting the politics of race and pigment in the photographic archive. It is a statement of self-presentation through portraiture. The entire series also relates to the concept of MaID ('My Identity') or, read differently, 'maid', the quotidian and demeaning name given to all subservient black women in South Africa. Experimenting with different characters and archetypes, I have portrayed myself in highly stylised fashion using the performative and expressive language of theatre. The black face and its details become the focal point, forcing the viewer to question their desire to gaze at images of my black figure." --Full exhibition specific artist's statement found at:"Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness includes one hundred self-portraits created by one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. In each of the images, Muholi drafts material props from their immediate environment in an effort to reject their journey, explore their own image and possibilities as a black non-binary person in today's global society, and--most important--to speak emphatically in response to contemporary and historical racisms. As they states, "I am producing this photographic document to encourage people to be brave enough to occupy spaces, brave enough to create without fear of being vilified ... To teach people about our history, to re-think what history is all about, to re-claim it for ourselves, to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back." More than twenty curators, poets, and authors offer written contributions that draw out the layers of meaning and possible readings to accompany select images. Powerfully arresting, this collection is as much a manifesto of resistance as it is an autobiographical, artistic statement."--Amazon.com"Muholi is a South African visual activist and photographer. For over a decade they have documented black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people's lives in various townships in South Africa. Responding to the continuing discrimination and violence faced by the LGBTI community, in 2006 Muholi embarked on an ongoing project, Faces and Phases, in which they depict black lesbian and transgender individuals. Muholi's self-proclaimed mission is "to re-write a black queer and trans visual history of South Africa for the world to know of our resistance and existence at the height of hate crimes in SA and beyond." These arresting portraits are part of Muholi's contribution towards a more democratic and representative South African homosexual history. Through this positive imagery, Muholi hopes to offset the stigma and negativity attached to queer identity in African society. In a more recent ongoing series, Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness), Muholi becomes both the participant and the image-maker, as they turn the camera on themself. Experimenting with different characters and archetypes, Muholi's self portraits reference specific events in South Africa's political history. Through exaggerating the darkness of their skin tone, Muholi reclaims their blackness, and offsets the culturally dominant images of black women in the media today." Full biography found at:
Subjects: Interviews.; Self-portraits.; Photobooks.; Portraits.; Illustrated works.; Muholi, Zanele; Muholi, Zanele; Photographers, Black; Photographers; Gender identity; Gender identity; Gender-nonconforming people; Gender-nonconforming people; Self-portraits, Black; Self-portraits; Portrait photography.; Photography, Artistic.; Non-binary people.; LGBTQ+ people.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.; Gender identity.; Gender non-conforming people.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Anuran communication / by Ryan, Michael J.(Michael Joseph),1953-(CARDINAL)328380;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Anura; Animal communication.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Hood Huggers International green book : rebuilding Affrilachia. by Green, Victor H.,publisher.(CARDINAL)788121;
Historical profiles -- Business -- Entertainment -- Food -- Media -- Non-profit -- Social enterprise -- Store/shop -- Visual artists -- Neighborhood associations.A modern rendition of the Negro motorist green book, the classic Jim Crow-era travel guide for African Americans covering all four decades during which the series was published from the 1930s to the 1960s. "The Negro Motorist Green Book was an annual guidebook for African Americans, commonly referred to simply as the Green Book. It was published by Victor H. Green from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era, when open and often legally prescribed discrimination was widespread. It was intended to provide African American motorists and tourists with the information necessary to board, dine, and sightsee comfortably and safely during the era of segregation." -- Wikipedia.
Subjects: Guidebooks.; Directories.; Handbooks and manuals.; African Americans; Automobile travel; Restaurants; Bars (Drinking establishments); African Americans; Hotels;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Red tails : [videorecording] / by Hemingway, Anthony.; Ridley, John,1965-; McGruder, Aaron.; McCallum, Rick,1952-; Johnson, Chas Floyd.; Howard, Terrence.; Oyelowo, David.; Ne-Yo.; Kelley, Elijah.; Parker, Nate,1979-; Gooding, Cuba,Jr.,1968-; Industrial Light and Magic (Studio); Lucasfilm, Ltd.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.;
Disc 1. Blu-ray ed. -- disc 2. DVD ed.Music, Terence Blanchard ; visual effects and animation, Industrial Light & Magic ; editors, Michael O'Halloran and Ben Burtt.Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley,Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some sequences of war violenceBlu-ray disc, region A, widescreen (2.40:1) aspect ratio; 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio (English, English descriptive audio) ; 5.1 Dolby Digital (French, Spanish).Requires a Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Blu-ray videodiscs.; Feature films; War films; Action and adventure films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Historical films; United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd; African American fighter pilots; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2012., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On the basis of sex [videorecording] / by Leder, Mimi,1952-film director.(CARDINAL)783655; Stiepleman, Daniel,1981-screenwriter.; King, Jonathan(Film producer),film producer.; Cort, Robert W.,film producer.(CARDINAL)432957; Jones, Felicity,actor.; Hammer, Armie,1986-actor.(CARDINAL)343716; Theroux, Justin,actor.(CARDINAL)539241; Reynor, Jack,1992-actor.(CARDINAL)346661; Spaeny, Cailee,1997-actor.; Root, Stephen,actor.(CARDINAL)341550; Waterston, Sam,actor.(CARDINAL)188180; Bates, Kathy,1948-actor.(CARDINAL)344804; Crewson, Wendy,actor.; Mulkey, Chris,actor.; Ralston, John,1964-actor.; Werntz, Gary,actor.; McCarthy, Francis X.,actor.; Carlson, Ben(Actor),actor.; Grady, Michael(Cinematographer),cinematographer.; Tesoro, Michelle,editor of moving image work.; Danna, Mychael,composer (expression)(CARDINAL)842578; Mussenden, Isis,1959-costume designer.; Coates, Nelson,production designer.; Participant Media,presenter,production company.(CARDINAL)300208; Alibaba Pictures,presenter.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)340102;
DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Jack Reynor, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen Root, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates, Wendy Crewson, Chris Mulkey, John Ralston, Gary Werntz, Francis Xavier McCarthy, Ben Carlson.Director of photography, Michael Grady ; editor, Michelle Tesoro ; music, Mychael Danna ; production designer, Nelson Coates ; costume designer, Isis Mussenden.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some language and suggestive contentInspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that catapults her into one of the most important public figures of our time.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Ginsburg, Ruth Bader; Ginsburg, Martin D., 1932-2010; United States. Court of Appeals (10th Circuit); Lawyers; Sex discrimination;
Available copies: 63 / Total copies: 70
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Roadblocks to learning : understanding the obstacles that can sabotage your child's academic success / by Greene, Lawrence J.(CARDINAL)733736;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-452) and index.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Learning disabilities; Learning disabled children;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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