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  • Miles Davis, and Jazz as Religion
    Earnest N. Bracey
    This book about Miles Dewey Davis is more psychologically driven than a straight biography; but it does cover his musical career, as well his spirituality as a jazz musician. Davis rocketed to jazz fame as a trumpeter, making a plethora of jazz recordings during his life time; and his music kept the “jazz world” on edge for almost fifty years. This book also discusses Davis’s r...
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    51,29 €

  • The Big Black Three and Other Short Stories
    Earnest N. Bracey
    Despite the seemingly endless obstacles placed in their paths for centuries, African Americans have somehow survived, even in a polarized country, while bravely confronting white prejudice, racial injustice, and discrimination.In a volume of ten stories, Earnest Bracey shares insight into the lives of diverse characters often uplifted by rhythm and blues music while facing terr...
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    10,54 €

  • Dark Labyrinth
    Earnest N. Bracey / Earnest NBracey
    Earnest Bracey is a man who loves music. He played his jazz trumpet at several venues in Japan, as well as at the One Step Down jazz club in Washington, D.C. He was a jazz trumpet soloist in the acclaimed Jazz Big Band at Jackson State University in the late 1970s, and his love for music has poured into his love of prose.Dark Labyrinth is a collection of poems about music and s...
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    11,20 €

  • An Evening with Frederick Douglass
    Earnest N. Bracey / Earnest NBracey
    Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave who fled north and overcame incredible adversity and extreme hardships to become one of the greatest abolitionists of his time. Douglass, who was best known for his writings and oratorical career, was passionate about fighting the horrors of white supremacy and liberating former black slaves in the United States. In this two-act play, Dr. ...
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    10,54 €

  • Fannie Lou Hamer
    Earnest N Bracey / Earnest N. Bracey
    This book explores the life of one of Mississippi’s greatest civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Conve...
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    42,92 €

  • The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas
    Earnest N Bracey / Earnest N. Bracey
    Originally opened in May 1955, the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino quickly rose in popularity as Las Vegas’ first racially-integrated hotel and casino. Sammy Davis, Jr., Louis Armstrong, and other A-list black singers and musicians performed at the Moulin Rouge on a regular basis, and for once they were allowed to spend the night in the same hotel where they performed. This ...
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    42,86 €

  • Petrified Life and Other Short Stories
    Earnest N. Bracey / Earnest NBracey
    This provocative book tries to give a modern-day voice to the Black American experience, as it vividly, painstakingly, and accurately depicts the sad and continuing struggles of the descendants of Black African slaves in the United States. This mesmerizing work further weaves the human tragedy, social boundaries, pathetic comedy, jubilation, alienation, and racial co...
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    16,89 €

  • Comedy of War
    Earnest Bracey / Earnest N. Bracey / Earnest NBracey
    The Comedy of War is an overview of military politics, strategy, and the causes of war utilizing books and films as source texts:The Art of War by Sun Tzu, on War by Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz, and The Butter Battle by Dr. Seuss; (the films) Antz and A Bug’s Life. This work offers systematic interpretations of what goes on before and after war, and the political and s...
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    49,39 €

  • Places in Political Time
    Bracey Earnest / Earnest N. Bracey / Earnest NBracey
    Places in Political Time approaches the black African Diaspora phenomenon from a new perspective, considering cultural myths, history, allegories, and other stories, which present the human condition from a black American perspective. The essays describe and evaluate tough questions on racism and uncomfortable truths about people within the Black Diaspora, exploring how people ...
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    61,69 €

  • Daniel 'Chappie' James
    Earnest N. Bracey
    General Daniel 'Chappie' James, Jr., USAF, fought in three American wars and became the first African American to attain the rank of four-star general in the United States Armed Forces. He was a talented military leader, an excellent orator and an advocate for equal rights for blacks in the military. James was once one of the most powerful men in the world, and today he is o...
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    42,84 €