Arthur Riss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Riss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Riss |
| SIGNATURE | RISS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Salem State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making Black History
In Making Black History Jeffrey Aaron Snyder presents a clearly written and carefully researched intellectual biography of Carter G. Woodson, the acknowledged “father of black history” (p. 36). Snyder delineates how Woodson, in essence, invented the discipline of African American history—establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History), founding the Journ…
Freedom in a Slave Society
Journal Article Freedom in a Slave Society: Stories from the Antebellum South Get access Freedom in a Slave Society: Stories from the Antebellum South. By Johanna Nicol Shields. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxiv, 318 pp. $99.00.) Arthur Riss Arthur Riss Salem State UniversitySalem, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Is…
An American Body/Politic
Unexpected Places
Unexpected Places aims to recover the forgotten authors, texts, and places of nineteenth-century African American literature. Arguing that literary historians have too often reduced a “large, rich, and wonderfully complex and conflicted body of literature” to “a single genre” (the slave narrative), Eric Gardner aims to broaden the “tiny handful of texts” that have come to represent the totality of African American cultural production and consumpt…
Sentimental Douglass
In his 1845 Narrative, Frederick Douglass recalls how, as a small child, he had “often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine” (N 18). In particular, he recollects that the first time he witnessed his Aunt Hester being whipped possessed an especially “awful force,” declaring that he “shall never forget it whilst I remember any thing.” Living with his grandmother on the “outskirts of the plantatio…
"Racial Essentialism and Family Values in "Uncle Tom's Cabin
WHEN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE INTRODUCES HER READERS TO UNCLE Tom's cabin, she remarks that the wall over the fireplace adorned with some very brilliant Scriptural prints and a portrait of General Washington.' In their privileged position over the hearth, these domestic adornments, one sacred and the other secular, prefigure the Christian virtue and the desire for personal liberty that Tom's life, and by extension his home, will come to embody. As G…
The Belly Politic
"Racial Essentialism and Family Values in "Uncle Tom's Cabin
WHEN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE INTRODUCES HER READERS TO UNCLE Tom's cabin, she remarks that the wall over the fireplace adorned with some very brilliant Scriptural prints and a portrait of General Washington.' In their privileged position over the hearth, these domestic adornments, one sacred and the other secular, prefigure the Christian virtue and the desire for personal liberty that Tom's life, and by extension his home, will come to embody. As G…
Unexpected Places
Unexpected Places aims to recover the forgotten authors, texts, and places of nineteenth-century African American literature. Arguing that literary historians have too often reduced a “large, rich, and wonderfully complex and conflicted body of literature” to “a single genre” (the slave narrative), Eric Gardner aims to broaden the “tiny handful of texts” that have come to represent the totality of African American cultural production and consumpt…
The Belly Politic
"Racial Essentialism and Family Values in "Uncle Tom's Cabin
WHEN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE INTRODUCES HER READERS TO UNCLE Tom's cabin, she remarks that the wall over the fireplace adorned with some very brilliant Scriptural prints and a portrait of General Washington.' In their privileged position over the hearth, these domestic adornments, one sacred and the other secular, prefigure the Christian virtue and the desire for personal liberty that Tom's life, and by extension his home, will come to embody. As G…
Sentimental Douglass
In his 1845 Narrative, Frederick Douglass recalls how, as a small child, he had “often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine” (N 18). In particular, he recollects that the first time he witnessed his Aunt Hester being whipped possessed an especially “awful force,” declaring that he “shall never forget it whilst I remember any thing.” Living with his grandmother on the “outskirts of the plantatio…
Unexpected Places
Unexpected Places aims to recover the forgotten authors, texts, and places of nineteenth-century African American literature. Arguing that literary historians have too often reduced a “large, rich, and wonderfully complex and conflicted body of literature” to “a single genre” (the slave narrative), Eric Gardner aims to broaden the “tiny handful of texts” that have come to represent the totality of African American cultural production and consumpt…
An American Body/Politic
Freedom in a Slave Society
Journal Article Freedom in a Slave Society: Stories from the Antebellum South Get access Freedom in a Slave Society: Stories from the Antebellum South. By Johanna Nicol Shields. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxiv, 318 pp. $99.00.) Arthur Riss Arthur Riss Salem State UniversitySalem, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 100, Is…
Making Black History
In Making Black History Jeffrey Aaron Snyder presents a clearly written and carefully researched intellectual biography of Carter G. Woodson, the acknowledged “father of black history” (p. 36). Snyder delineates how Woodson, in essence, invented the discipline of African American history—establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History), founding the Journ…
Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African american (2 works)