Jacob U Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 653462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob U Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob U |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON J U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Leadership for Social Change
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome racial and economic barriers. This struggle has influenced the exercise of Black leadership in many other areas and the author uses an interdisciplinary ap…
Black Males in the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement has had a tremendous impact on American life and history. Its public policy impact includes the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1954, the comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to name a few. Although much has been written about the civil rights movement, there is a paucity of comparative in-depth analyses of the leadership role of African American men. This article seeks to fill th…
John M. Roberts, Twentieth Century
Yoruba Cosmology and Culture in Brazil
Considerable controversy has arisen over the extent to which the thought and actions of Blacks in the New World constitute persistence of African traits. A goodly number of scholars formerly contended that nothing existed in Africa that approached civilization and that there was, therefore, nothing for the Africans to bring with them. As evidence to the contrary began to pile up, that position was no longer tenable. Sociologists like E. B. Reuter…
Teaching the African Experience
pioneering book Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois (1915), more than fifty years ago claimed a place for Africa in world history and opened the whole field of black historiography. It is fair say that until its publication in 1915 the serious study of Africans at home and abroad had been neglected. Aspects of and black American history had been surveyed but no synoptic view of Africans and people of descent throughout the world had been undertaken, nor had…
Black Males in the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement has had a tremendous impact on American life and history. Its public policy impact includes the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1954, the comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to name a few. Although much has been written about the civil rights movement, there is a paucity of comparative in-depth analyses of the leadership role of African American men. This article seeks to fill th…
Teaching the African Experience
pioneering book Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois (1915), more than fifty years ago claimed a place for Africa in world history and opened the whole field of black historiography. It is fair say that until its publication in 1915 the serious study of Africans at home and abroad had been neglected. Aspects of and black American history had been surveyed but no synoptic view of Africans and people of descent throughout the world had been undertaken, nor had…
Teaching the African Experience
pioneering book Negro, by W.E.B. Du Bois (1915), more than fifty years ago claimed a place for Africa in world history and opened the whole field of black historiography. It is fair say that until its publication in 1915 the serious study of Africans at home and abroad had been neglected. Aspects of and black American history had been surveyed but no synoptic view of Africans and people of descent throughout the world had been undertaken, nor had…
Yoruba Cosmology and Culture in Brazil
Considerable controversy has arisen over the extent to which the thought and actions of Blacks in the New World constitute persistence of African traits. A goodly number of scholars formerly contended that nothing existed in Africa that approached civilization and that there was, therefore, nothing for the Africans to bring with them. As evidence to the contrary began to pile up, that position was no longer tenable. Sociologists like E. B. Reuter…
Black Leadership for Social Change
This book presents a comprehensive overview of Black leadership in every aspect of American life, including movements for social justice, education, business, and politics. In the quest for human rights and social advancement, African-American leaders have emerged to lead the fight to overcome racial and economic barriers. This struggle has influenced the exercise of Black leadership in many other areas and the author uses an interdisciplinary ap…
Black Males in the Civil Rights Movement
The civil rights movement has had a tremendous impact on American life and history. Its public policy impact includes the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1954, the comprehensive Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to name a few. Although much has been written about the civil rights movement, there is a paucity of comparative in-depth analyses of the leadership role of African American men. This article seeks to fill th…
John M. Roberts, Twentieth Century
Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · American history (1 works) · American Political and Social Dynamics (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works)