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James Baldwin Review: Volume 4 by Douglas Field 9781526131768
RRP: $52.50$45.32James 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... -
James Baldwin Review: Volume 2 by Douglas Field 9781526121981
RRP: $52.50$45.32The 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... -
James Baldwin Review: Volume 3 by Douglas Field 9781526131331
RRP: $52.50$45.32The 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... -
Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh by Candice M. Jenkins 9781517905804
RRP: $48.28$41.16Exploring 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... -
Race and Upward Mobility: Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America by Elda Maria Roman 9781503603783
RRP: $58.78$49.69Over 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: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific by Christine Hong 9781503603134
RRP: $262.50$223.61A 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... -
Race and Upward Mobility: Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America by Elda Maria Roman 9781503602847
RRP: $243.60$206.93Over 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,... -
African American Novels in the Black Lives Matter Era: Transgressive Performativity of Black Vulnerability as Praxis in Everyday Life by Demirturk E Lale 9781498596237
RRP: $73.50$66.95Apologies 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 by E. Lale Demirturk 9781498596213
RRP: $178.50$166.34African 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... -
The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life: Blackness as Strategy for Social Change by E. Lale Demirturk 9781498534826
RRP: $207.90$193.47This 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... -
The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire by Erica R. Edwards 9781479808427
RRP: $168.00$144.42Reveals 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... -
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being by Kevin Quashie 9781478011873
RRP: $193.20$164.68In 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 Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening by Jennifer Lynn Stoever 9781479890439
$172.22The 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. ... -
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson 9781479890040
RRP: $168.00$158.59Argues 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 by LaToya Jefferson-James 9781793615299
RRP: $170.10$156.47Masculinity 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... -
Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler by Florian Bast 9783825365103
RRP: $130.20$112.92Apologies 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 -
The Presence of the Past in the Novels of Toni Morrison by Stefanie Mueller 9783825361532
RRP: $121.80$105.42Apologies 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 -
Betwixt, Between, or Beyond?: Negotiating 'trans' Formations from the Liminal Sphere of Contemporary Black Performance Poetry by Birgit M Bauridl 9783825359003
RRP: $136.50$119.49Apologies 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 -
African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges by Glenda R Carpio 9783825358969
RRP: $69.30$63.57Apologies 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 -
Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature, 1793-1845 by Erin Forbes 9781421443751
RRP: $165.90$144.17Apologies 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 -
Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel by Alvin J. Henry 9781517910051
RRP: $203.70$173.48A 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... -
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture by Robert O'Meally 9780231189187
RRP: $210.00$160.88Ralph 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... -
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy 9781496838728
RRP: $228.90$207.35Perhaps 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... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630345
RRP: $226.80$192.84Apologies 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 -
Depictions of Home in African American Literature by Trudier Harris 9781793649638
RRP: $170.10$156.47In 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... -
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics by Darieck Scott 9781479840137
RRP: $168.00$143.58Explores 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 by Coretta M. Pittman 9781496843036
$232.93Literacy 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... -
New World Maker Volume 40: Radical Poetics, Black Internationalism, and the Translations of Langston Hughes by Ryan James Kernan 9780810144422
RRP: $83.90$68.78Apologies 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 -
Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination by Zachary F Price 9780814214602
$207.25Apologies 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 -
Toni Morrison's 'Beloved': Origins by Justine Tally 9780415888530
RRP: $96.58$84.27This 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: Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature by Portia Owusu 9780367819897
RRP: $241.50$208.66Spectres 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: African American History and Representation by Andrew Dix 9780367359096
RRP: $283.50$246.29Violence 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 by Tiffany Austin 9780367276386
RRP: $283.50$246.29Revisiting 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... -
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism by Kenneth W. Warren 9780226873800
RRP: $48.30$46.47Using 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... -
African American Writers and Classical Tradition by William W. Cook 9780226789972
RRP: $56.70$56.43Constraints 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... -
African, American: From Tarzan to Dreams from My Father - Africa in the US Imagination by David Peterson del Mar 9781783608539
$50.93Africa 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... -
The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-20 - "An Honest Man and a Good Writer" by Conseula Francis 9781571133250
RRP: $168.00$160.88James 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... -
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert 9781479885688
RRP: $186.90$159.41Honorable 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... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal 9781479829590
RRP: $168.00$53.47Argues 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... -
For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics by Rachel Jane Carroll 9781479826728
$171.38Argues 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...