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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War

3 reviews
Melvin Patrick Ely

Vintage, 2005

How free black and white folk lived together for decades
A Southern experiment in black freedom from the 1790s through Civil War times? President Thomas Jefferson condemned slavery but didn't believe whites and liberated blacks could live together in harmony: His cousin Richard Randolph and ninety blacks set out to prove him wrong, and built a bastion of freedom in his heritage to bondsman Hercules White and dozens of other slaves. The lives of the ...

The Handicap Principle: A Missing Piece of Darwin's Puzzle

6 reviews
Amotz Zahavi, Avishag Zahavi

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Best book on evolution in many years
Why does the peacock grow that tail? Why does the springbok leap straight up into the air when it sees a predator? Why do people behave heroically? The handicap principle answers these questions, eloquently, simply and with an overwhelming sense of conviction. The peacock is advertising his fitness. He is saying to the female in essence, I am so fit I can carry around this cumbersome ...

The Adventures of Amos and Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon

5 reviews
Melvin Patrick Ely

University of Virginia Press, 2001

Thoughtful and Well-Written
As the title indicates Ely's work is frankly a work of social history, not a performance biography, and is less interested in exploring "Amos 'n' Andy's" significant impact on the broadcasting medium than in viewing it as window into mid-20th Century American racial attitudes. Analysis of the program's content focuses on that perspective to the exclusion of all others, and detailed examination of ...