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  • Audiobook

    Life is a Highway

    A Roadmap for Your Journey

    by Ian C. Byrd ...
    Narrated by Scott R. Pollak ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Life is a Highway will help you make spiritual growth a priority even amidst the distractions of life's urgent demands. Drawing upon portions of his own life journey, Ian Byrd provides guidance for transforming difficult moments into times of renewed strength, expectancy, and encouragement as we draw closer to the father heart of God and come to understand His goodness.You will learn to become ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desegregating Comics

    Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

    by Qiana Whitted, Qiana Whitted, Ian Gordon, Nicholas Sammond, Andrew J. Kunka, Rebecca Wanzo, Chris Gavaler, Monalesia Earle, Blair Davis, Eli Boonin-Vail0, Carol L. Tilley1, Brian Cremins2, Mora Beauchamp-Byrd3, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham4, Jacque Nodell5, Julian C. Chambliss6, Mike Lemon7 ...
    **Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book PrizeShortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner AwardHonorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies from the Popular Culture Association**Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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  • American Comics

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  • Birth of an Industry

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

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    In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon ... Read more

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