African American & Black

The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a...

The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains...

Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to state and extralegal violence, Black Bourgeois is the first...

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status,...

A Violent Peace offers a radical cultural account of the midcentury transformation of the United States into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between U.S. police actions in Asia and...

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498596237Author Demirturk E LaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life explores the undoing of whiteness by black people, who dissociate from scripts of black criminality through radical...

This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in the racial context of post-9/11 American society is important in considering...

Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the...

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a black world in which one encounters black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of antiblack violence. As such, he makes a case for black aliveness even in the face...

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. ...

Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and...

Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors. In each chapter, Dr. Jefferson-James discusses a different "construction" or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825365103Author Florian BastFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825361532Author Stefanie MuellerFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825359003Author Birgit M BauridlFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825358969Author Glenda R CarpioFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421443751Author Erin ForbesFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University PressWeight(grams) 476g

A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity  Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism...

Ralph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G...

Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503630345Author Joseph DardaFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American...

Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic books Characters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided...

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810144422Author Ryan James KernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher Northwestern University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214602Author Zachary F PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

This work expands the scope of Morrison's project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the...

Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery...

Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white...

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to...

Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation...

Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue...

Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels to the 'black Zion' of Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to...

James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story "Sonny's Blues" remains a perennial favorite in literature anthologies, and all of his essay collections and novels are still in print. His first essay collection, Notes...

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute...

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul...

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United States by creating transformative scenes of...

How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison’s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It...