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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... 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 his future and the future of his ...
... 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 his future and the future of his ...
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... become a professional basketball player, what other profession would you have chosen?” I'll never forget the shocked look on his face when I answered, “A history teacher.” Yes, you read right. A history teacher. My interest in history ...
... become a professional basketball player, what other profession would you have chosen?” I'll never forget the shocked look on his face when I answered, “A history teacher.” Yes, you read right. A history teacher. My interest in history ...
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... 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. Writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale ...
... 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. Writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale ...
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... 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.” Something is our fate when we blindly stumble into it ...
... 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.” Something is our fate when we blindly stumble into it ...
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... becomes more and more a mass movement toward the larger and the more democratic chance—in the Negro's case a deliberate flight not only from countryside to city, but from medieval America to modern. Harlem was to be the model of this ...
... becomes more and more a mass movement toward the larger and the more democratic chance—in the Negro's case a deliberate flight not only from countryside to city, but from medieval America to modern. Harlem was to be the model of this ...
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 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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