Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace

Augusta Rohrbach broadens our understanding of the American literary tradition by showing how African American literature and culture grea...

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The Anthology of African American Literature: Volume 1, 1746 - 1920

The Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiograph...

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On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis

In July 1964, after a decade of intense media focus on civil rights protest in the Jim Crow South, a riot in Harlem abruptly shifted atte...

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Shetani's Sister by Iceberg Slim

From the multi-million copy master of vernacular black literature and pioneeer of hip hop culture, a masterpiece of crime fiction set in ...

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Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond

Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on the cross-cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the eightee...

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Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle

Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from sla...

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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of AmericanPopular Culture, 1890-1930

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in vario...

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The Black Woman: An Anthology

A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers When it was first publishe...

6:32 PM

The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta Nehisi Coates

An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us. Paul Coates was a...

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Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound w...

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African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Representation

In African-American Servitude & Historical Imaginings Margaret Jordan initiates a new way of looking at the African-American presence...

7:36 AM

Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography

Johnnie M. Stover explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans...

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Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem and the Avant-Garde

Makes a persuasive case for a black Atlantic literary renaissance & its impact on modernist studies. These 10 new chapters stretch and...

7:43 AM

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

In this hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeonin...

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Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

An essential encyclopedic reference, "Encyclopedia of African-American Literature" guides readers through the rich history of Af...

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Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing. A Literary Rent Party to Benefit The Hurston/Wright Foundation

Product Description: A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/ Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor...

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Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers

African American women writers published extensively during the Harlem Renaissance and have been extraordinarily prolific since the 1970s....

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Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature

This incisive comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities in new and exciting ways. In a c...

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The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature

This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, motherto...

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Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960

In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the life in letters of the greatest Afric...

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