On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem RenaissanceSimon and Schuster, 2007 M02 5 - 288 páginas New York Times bestselling author and living legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares how the power of the Harlem Renaissance led him to become the man he is today—basketball superstar, jazz enthusiast, historian, and Black American icon. In On the Shoulders of Giants, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar invites us on an extraordinarily personal journey back to his birthplace of Harlem through one of the greatest political, cultural, literary, and artistic movements in history. He reveals the tremendous impact the Harlem Renaissance had on both American culture and his own life. Travel deep into the soul of the Renaissance—the night clubs, restaurants, basketball games, and fabulous parties that have made footprints in Harlem’s history. Meet the athletes, jazz musicians, comedians, actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and writers who not only inspired Kareem’s rise to greatness but an entire nation. |
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... helped shape the kind of man he has become. He details how the values, accomplishments, and dreams of those giants of the Harlem Renaissance influenced his own values, motivated his own accomplishments, and still guide his dreams for ...
... helped shape the kind of man he has become. He details how the values, accomplishments, and dreams of those giants of the Harlem Renaissance influenced his own values, motivated his own accomplishments, and still guide his dreams for ...
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... helped influence their development. Usually it's parents, grandparents, teachers, and religious leaders. Same thing holds true for me. My father taught me to have passion for jazz and basketball, and my mother taught me to have ...
... helped influence their development. Usually it's parents, grandparents, teachers, and religious leaders. Same thing holds true for me. My father taught me to have passion for jazz and basketball, and my mother taught me to have ...
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... helped me see the kind of athlete I could become. Jazz musicians like Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith helped me enjoy the pleasures of uniquely black music and use that as a sound track to celebrate my place in the black community ...
... helped me see the kind of athlete I could become. Jazz musicians like Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith helped me enjoy the pleasures of uniquely black music and use that as a sound track to celebrate my place in the black community ...
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... helped shape the choices I made and the person I have become. And am still becoming. In the epigraph that begins this introduction, the brilliant African-American scholar Ron Karenga says, “Our youth can be our fate or our future ...
... helped shape the choices I made and the person I have become. And am still becoming. In the epigraph that begins this introduction, the brilliant African-American scholar Ron Karenga says, “Our youth can be our fate or our future ...
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... helping to create the Harlem Renaissance. Meantime, the violence continued; the lynchings continued. In 1901, George Henry White, a former slave and the only AfricanAmerican in the House of Representatives, introduced a bill that would ...
... helping to create the Harlem Renaissance. Meantime, the violence continued; the lynchings continued. In 1901, George Henry White, a former slave and the only AfricanAmerican in the House of Representatives, introduced a bill that would ...
Contenido
How Harlem Influenced My Life | 47 |
Jazz Lights Up the Heavens of Harlem | 193 |
Photo Credits | 256 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
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