Faculty Newsletter: Celebrate Black History Month

Explore videos, ebooks, journals and more [ProQuest - Part of Clarivate]( [View online]( Faculty Newsletter: Celebrate Black History Month Explore Black History resources with a variety of content from ProQuest One Academic. (For some items, you may need to log into your ProQuest or library account.) eBook: [Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies]( Source: Academic Complete Description: The provocative debate about Malcolm X's legacy that emerged after the publication of Manning Marable's 2011 biography raised critical questions about the revolutionary Black Nationalist's importance to American and world affairs. Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview responds to many burning questions by presenting Malcolm's subject as an iconography used to deepen understanding of African descendent peoples' experiences through advanced research and disciplinary study. A Black studies reader that uses the biography of Malcolm X both to interrogate key aspects of the Black world experience and to contribute to the intellectual expansion of the discipline, the book presents Malcolm as a Black subject who represents, symbolizes, and associates meaning with the Black/Africana studies discipline. [See book details]( | [Learn more about Academic Complete]( Documentary: [Who We Are]( (Sony Pictures Classics, U.S. only) Source: Academic Video Online Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE — A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the U.S., from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America. [Watch the preview]( | [Learn more about Academic Video Online]( Documentary: [MLK/FBI]( (Film Platform) Source: Academic Video Online Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic film, award-winning editor, and director Sam Pollard lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King's activism throughout the '50s and '60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always hard-won. [Watch the preview]( | [Learn more about Academic Video Online]( Journal Article: [Mercer Cook : A Life in Motion]( (Spectrum, 2023) Source: ProQuest Central This article traces the intellectual trajectory and transnational engagements of a key African American scholar and diplomat: Dr. Will Mercer Cook (1903-1987). From the 1930s to the 1960s, Mercer Cook was the foremost American authority on Black Francophone life and culture. His decades-long research, travels, and personal relationships with notable Black Francophone writers, politicians, and intellectuals, by the 1960s rendered him an ideal candidate for diplomacy posts in recently independent African nation states (The Gambia and Niger). Although not much work has alluded to his significance in the field of African diaspora studies, Cook was a central figure that connected an American public, and American educational and cultural institutions, to the Black Francophone world. This profile will highlight the significance of his work in the context of African American transnational engagements in the first half of the twentieth century. [Read preview]( | [Learn more about ProQuest Central]( Dissertation: [A Vibrational Analysis of Secondary Chlorides]( Subject : Molecular Physics Source: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) Explore and celebrate the dissertation of the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in Physics. Moore, Willie Hobbs.  The University of Michigan, 1972 [Read the preview]( [Learn more about ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global]( [ProQuest - Part of Clarivate]( [ProQuest YouTube]( [ProQuest Twitter]( [ProQuest LinkedIn]( [ProQuest Facebook]( Clarivate™ is home to leading research, education and library solutions, including Web of Science™, ProQuest™, Ex Libris™ and Innovative™. [Unsubscribe from marketing communications]( [Manage your email preferences]( [Privacy policy]( 789 East Eisenhower Parkway Ann Arbor, MI 48108-1346 USA This email was sent to {EMAIL} and is specific to the recipient. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. © 2024 Clarivate. Clarivate, ProQuest and its logo, as well as all other trademarks used herein are trademarks of their respective owners and used under license.