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Fisk University’s Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Arts and Languages, Dr. Lean’tin Bracks, Publishes Her Recent Book: African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence
2/10/2012 9:47:28 AM
Nashville, Tenn. – February 10, 2012 – Fisk University’s Associate Professor of African American Literature and Chair of its Department of Arts and Languages, Dr. Lean’tin Bracks, published her most recent book, African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence that provides insight on centuries of African Americans’ influence, inspiration and impact on the American culture and society.
“The primary goal of this book was to expand the degree of information and research that is available to all Americans about the African American experience,” said Dr. Lean’tin Bracks. “Hopefully readers will be inspired by the contributions of those in the biographies and better understand through the chapters, the journey and the sacrifices of African Americans in defining their role within American society. It was both a joy and a challenge to do this book, but as a teacher who seeks to educate others, it was a gift.”
Published in November 2011 as the most complete single-volume African American culture reference available to date, its 560 pages highlight over 750 influential African American figures including Fisk alumnus W.E.B. DuBois, President Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, George Washington Carver, Oprah Winfrey and Langston Hughes, among others, with 445 photographs and illustrations. Its historical record of African American culture includes literature, art, music, religion, scientific and medical advances, politics, education, business, sports, theatre, film, television and the Civil Rights movement.
African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence is printed by Visible Ink Press and available for purchase at Barnes and Noble,
www.visibleinkpress.com, Amazon.com and other fine bookstores.
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About Fisk University Founded in 1866, Fisk University is Nashville’s first institution of higher education and it currently ranks in the top 10% of all liberal arts institutions in the nation according to Washington Monthly. Fisk is one of six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) listed in Forbes magazine’s 2011 edition of “America’s Best Colleges” and has been ranked in The Princeton Review’s “Best 373 Colleges” publication for twenty consecutive years. U.S. News and World Report ranks Fisk #144 in the elite Tier One group of 246 liberal arts institutions selected for the distinction among the 1,400 colleges and universities in the nation and Fisk is one of only three HBCUs ranked in Tier One. Fisk has earned three R & D 100 Awards for work in the creation of radiation detectors developed in collaboration with several national laboratories and corporations. No other HBCU has earned a R & D 100 Award. According to the National Science Foundation, Fisk produces more African-Americans who go on to earn doctoral degrees in the natural sciences than any school in the nation. For more information on Fisk University, please visit www.fisk.edu.
About Lean’tin Bracks, Ph.D.
Dr. Bracks, an Associate Professor of African American Literature, is the Chair of the Department of Arts and Languages at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Bracks has published the books Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora, and The Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, custom print, as well as contributed to books, journals, and resource texts inclusive of Children of the Changing South, Freedom Facts and Firsts, The Black Scholar, African American National Biography and Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture. Awards include an honorary degree from her undergraduate institution, Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, Outstanding Teaching in the Humanities and Who’s Who Among American Teachers. She completed her graduate work at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence
by Lean'tin Bracks with Foreword by Jessie Carney Smith
Published by Visible Ink Press
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
Trade Paper, 7.125” x 9.25”
560 pages, 445 Photos and Illustrations
Publication Date: January 2012
Price: $22.95 US, $25.95 Canadian
ISBN: 978-1-57859-323-1
PDF ISBN: 9781578593828
Kindle ISBN: 9781578593811
ePUB ISBN: 9781578593804
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