Gerald Early

Författare till Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation

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Cornell University graduate Gerald Early is an essayist and professor at Washington University. Early was the director of African and Afro-American studies at Washington University and the director of the American Culture Studies Program. He was also named the Merle Kling Professor of Modern visa mer Letters in Arts and Sciences. His essays have been included in Harpers, The New Republic, and Hungry Mind Review. His books include One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture, Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity and Ambivalence of Assimilation, and Body Language: Writers on Sport. Early received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Literature, Prizefighting, and Modern American Culture. (Bowker Author Biography) Gerald Early is the author of "The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, & Modern American Culture" & the editor of "The Muhammad Ali Reader". He is Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

Inkluderar namnen: Gerald L. Early, Gerald Lyn Early

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Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation (1992) 76 exemplar

The Muhammad Ali Reader (1998) 60 exemplar

Best African American Essays: 2009 (2009) — Redaktör — 41 exemplar

The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture (1994) 40 exemplar

Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American Culture (1989) 39 exemplar

One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture (1995) 31 exemplar

Best African American Fiction 2010 (2009) — Editor (series) — 30 exemplar

Speech And Power Volume 1 (Speech & Power) (1992) 21 exemplar

Miles Davis and American Culture (Missouri Historical Society Press) (2001) 17 exemplar

The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader (2001) — Redaktör — 15 exemplar

A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports (Alain Locke Lecture Series) (2011) 15 exemplar

Best African American Essays 2010 (2009) 15 exemplar

Ain't but a Place: An Anthology of African American Writings About St. Louis (1998) 15 exemplar

I'm a Little Special (1999) — Redaktör — 15 exemplar

Speech And Power Volume 2 (Dark Tower Series) (1993) 14 exemplar

Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood (1994) 13 exemplar

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man (Writers and Their Works) (2010) 7 exemplar

Body Language: Writers on Sport (1998) 6 exemplar

The Cambridge Companion to Boxing (2019) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar

This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s (Abraham Lincoln Lecture) (2003) 4 exemplar

Ali Bomaye 3 exemplar

How the War in the Streets Is Won: Poems on the Quest of Love and Faith (1995) 3 exemplar

Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant [article] (2016) 3 exemplar

Daedalus 142:4 (Fall 2013) - American Music 2 exemplar

Dædalus 148:02 Spring 2019: Why Jazz Still Matters (2019) 1 exemplar

Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman (Approaches to Teaching World Literature) (2018) — Redaktör — 1 exemplar

Waiting for Miss America (Singles Classic) (2016) 1 exemplar

Ralph Ellison Invisible man (2010) 1 exemplar

Dædalus 148:02 Spring 2019: Why Jazz Still Matters 1 exemplar

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Moral Issues and Christian Responses (1997) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor — 83 exemplar

The Best American Essays 1986 (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 70 exemplar

Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology) (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 62 exemplar

Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar

Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar

Race: An Anthology in the First Person (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar

These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar

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Födelsedag: 1952-04-21
Kön: male
Nationalitet: USA
Födelseort: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Bostadsorter: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Utbildning: University of Pennsylvania
Cornell University
Yrken: professor (English ∙ African-American Studies)
essayist
cultural critic
Organisationer: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Priser och utmärkelser: Whiting Writers' Award (1988)

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The Muhammad Ali Reader av Gerald Early

Read this for a class. I definitely appreciated getting read so many different perspectives on Ali. I especially liked reading some of the interviews he did, particularly one he did with playboy magazine

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AKBouterse | 1 annan recension | Oct 14, 2021 |

The Muhammad Ali reader av Gerald Lyn Early

No boxer has ever captured the public spotlight like Ali! He was funny, and all he had to do to make money was get in the Ring and try to eke out a win over people who, given a chance, could beat you to death! Some of them, Liston or Foreman, for example, could do it with one hand tied behind their back! He was the classic example of "grace under pressure."
He was an athlete in the boxing business who confronted the "fighters" and embarrassed them! This is a good anthology of writing about him.… (mer)

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DinadansFriend | 1 annan recension | Oct 12, 2013 |

Best African American fiction 2010 av Gerald Lyn Early

The writing in this book is absolutely exquisite. As an anthology, it's far-ranging in terms of genre and style, and while I didn't enjoy (or understand) some of the stories, even the ones I disliked were incredibly well-written. Some of the stories are uncomfortably supernatural or uncomfortably frank, they're all some of the finest prose I've read in a very long time, and I'll be keeping an eye out for other works by many of these authors. It's a serious, deep read, but well worth the time it takes.… (mer)

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upstairsgirl | Mar 3, 2010 |