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From slavery and colonial times through the Civil Rights Movement and up to the present, the African-American experience is vividly evoked through nearly 100 poems, songs, and text excerpts in this beautiful introduction to a fascinating culture designed for young readers.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 4 Up-- This presentation of literature and art for young people is elegant, appealing, rich, and dramatic with moments from African-American history. Its contents touch all periods from slavery to the present. It claims 100 poems, folk songs, and other literary excerpts that accompany more than 80 historical photographs and reproductions of paintings and sculptures. While the index is not inclusive, this is an aesthetically gratifying book that deserves wide distribution.-- Helen E. Williams, formerly at University of Maryland, College Park (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
The work of more than 60 writers, poets, painters, photographers and historical figures forms this richly diverse and well-chosen introduction to African American culture. Accompanying a loose chronology of political milestones from the colonial era to the present are songs of the field and chain gang, a Benin bronze and folk sculpture and more. Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois and Jacob Lawrence shine brightly here, as do paintings by John Copley, George Bellows and Thomas Eakins, representing a sympathetic white viewpoint. Captions for the old photographs attest to hope prevailing in bad times, but ultimately the pride inherent in Martin Luther King Jr.'s ``I Have a Dream'' speech and Florence Griffith Joyner's Olympic medals succumbs to frequent hints that matters are worsening for many of today's African Americans. Concluding this lovingly produced volume, Gwendolyn Brooks's poem, ``To the Young Who Want to Die,'' becomes a moving plea to live for a brighter day. All ages. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Phot. A stunning collection of narratives, portraits, paintings, and documents is brought together in this integrated approach to the arts of African Americans. History serves as a backdrop for this carefully chosen anthology of representative poetry, song texts, and literary excerpts. Over eighty colorful photographs and paintings provide additional appeal to this valuable resource. Bib., ind. From HORN BOOK 1991, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Though the intention here is admirable, the subtitle is misleading at best. An introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell remarks that the book ``lets us hear...voices from the American past--Black and White--who bear the evidence of a country striving toward the reconciliation between the real and the ideal'': a more accurate summary of the content. There are plenty of white representations of African Americans--or even, like a photo of a white child at work in a cotton mill, representations of those only tangentially related to the black experience; other illustrations are simply journalistic photos of political figures. The ``literature'' consists of spirituals, poems familiar and unfamiliar, and excerpts from many sources, including Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (a page), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (a paragraph), a speech by Booker T. Washington (three sentences), and the 23rd Psalm. Much of the art is powerful (e.g., several paintings by Jacob Lawrence), and some of the pairings are inspired (two sonnets about New York, by the contemporaneous Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson, with similar themes and very different styles). There's much of value, then, but the whole is little more than a pastiche of ideas and images of varying quality. Biographical notes are brief; many include no clue to the race of the author or artist. Credits, but no index to the artists; the ``Poetry Title and Author Index,'' fortunately, includes prose. (Nonfiction. 8+)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 5^-12. This handsomely designed volume shows the image of African Americans in literature and art from slavery through today.