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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... culture, ground themselves in it, and feel compelled to continue the legacy, then they are our future. But if they turn their backs on their Blackness, if they have contempt for their fathers and mothers, if they do nothing but engage ...
... culture, ground themselves in it, and feel compelled to continue the legacy, then they are our future. But if they turn their backs on their Blackness, if they have contempt for their fathers and mothers, if they do nothing but engage ...
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... cultural revolution that would change America forever. This time was called the Harlem Renaissance because, like the sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance of Michelangelo and Raphael, it redefined an entire culture. These men and women ...
... cultural revolution that would change America forever. This time was called the Harlem Renaissance because, like the sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance of Michelangelo and Raphael, it redefined an entire culture. These men and women ...
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... cultures is to communicate what I've learned from my unique perspective of interacting with some of the most influential members of both. To use words to create a giant set of shoulders that any reader could climb aboard. This book ...
... cultures is to communicate what I've learned from my unique perspective of interacting with some of the most influential members of both. To use words to create a giant set of shoulders that any reader could climb aboard. This book ...
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... cultures, where it was used in public gatherings to discuss local politics and in religious rituals. African music would use the same call-and-response as a way to mimic human voices and vocal interaction. Slaves brought this means of ...
... cultures, where it was used in public gatherings to discuss local politics and in religious rituals. African music would use the same call-and-response as a way to mimic human voices and vocal interaction. Slaves brought this means of ...
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... cultural and political revolution. Certainly jazz provided the backbeat, but the revolution itself was orchestrated by a group of confident, educated, and talented young men and women undeterred by the perceptions and injustices of the ...
... cultural and political revolution. Certainly jazz provided the backbeat, but the revolution itself was orchestrated by a group of confident, educated, and talented young men and women undeterred by the perceptions and injustices of the ...
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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