African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767929912Author Marita GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068893Author Erin Michael SaliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams)...

The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West-the first comprehensive study...

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin's rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19 and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the...

When Pamala Bordelon was researching a work on the Florida Federal Writers Project, she discovered writings in the collection that were unmistakably from the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the leading writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Over half of...

Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to...

Strangers at Home reframes the way we conceive of the modernist literature that appeared in the period between the two world wars. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to...

The creative impulse of Michele D Gibbs comes from many sources: her Chicago childhood as the daughter of Communist parents, her academic training, her political development during the Civil Rights struggle, her career as a Movement analyst and teacher,...

The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of...

What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naive concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the...

In the first comprehensive study of African American war literature, Jennifer James analyzes fiction, poetry, autobiography, and histories about the major wars waged before the desegregation of the U.S. military in 1948. Examining literature about the...

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth...

Before and after writing Invisible Man , novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison's cultural politics, Jerry Watts examines the ways in...

For nearly thirty-five years Julian Mason's The Poems of Phillis Wheatley (1966) has been the standard edition of the poems and letters of this young black poet of eighteenth-century Boston. This new edition has been extensively revised in light of...

In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T...

Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in ""The Crisis"" and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. Reflecting and illuminating the movements major themes,...

Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African...

The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of...

This work describes twentieth-century survivor narratives and African American identity. With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith...

This book examines translation as trope in ethnic literature. Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha J. Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty...

For blues musicians, ""worrying the line"" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and...

African American writers explore the enduring effects of slavery on American society Slavery is America's family secret, says Ashraf Rushdy, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how...

Anne Spencer's identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on nature as apolitical and deracinated. Do Not Separate Her...

Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the ""Father of Black Nationalism,"" but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780968196434Author Leon PryceFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Leon's PublishingPublisher Leon's PublishingWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976740841Author Carol Jean BrownFormat PaperbackImprint Piraas, LLCPublisher Piraas, LLCWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965577557Author C Liegh McInnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Claude L. McInnisPublisher Claude L. McInnisWeight(grams) 417g

This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz, situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and...

Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls “the Blue Period.” In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The...

Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls “the Blue Period.” In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The...

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative...

What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a...

What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a...

For nearly 50 years, a trend in African American literary history quarantined the Black Arts era of the 1960s and 1970s, separating it from the brilliantly creative and aesthetically experimental writing that took off in the 1980s. According to that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994547Author Ron DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825366230Author Jan StievermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 117Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825363802Author Christian SchmidtFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 259g

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history,...

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978818064Author Rhonda D. FrederickFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press