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by hello@digitaldesigndc.com | Apr 11, 2022 | Blog

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem – A Memoir (2019)

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem – A Memoir (2019)

by hello@digitaldesigndc.com | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.

by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 Memoir is a great genre to re-discover Black histories. This text by Harlem fashion legend “Dapper Dan” (Daniel Day) reviews his Harlem life from tenements as a child to throwing dice in the 1970s to selling iconic fashion...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010

by hello@digitaldesigndc.com | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.

by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 Civil rights activist Michelle Alexander looked into the history of mass incarceration in the U.S. and traced its roots back to the Jim Crow era. She argues that there has been a “racial caste system” in the U.S., which has...
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (1997)

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (1997)

by hello@digitaldesigndc.com | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.

by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 This historic book by Beverly Daniel Tatum offers insights into the process of community making among Black and African-Americans in predominantly White spaces. It raises issues about how the integration of schools and previously...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (2018)

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (2018)

by hello@digitaldesigndc.com | Apr 1, 2022 | U.S.A.

by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 In 1927, anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is a wealth of knowledge about Black life in the early 1900s. Interviewed in Alabama, eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis told Hurston about his experience as an enslaved...
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