African American & Black

The first extended exploration of the construction of racial identity in Chesnutt's writings; Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking...

Body politics have played a decisive role in American literature, especially in the work of African Americans, whose sensitivity to the tradition of misrepresenting black bodies in American culture has left indelible traces. InAmerican Body Politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817359966Author Ryan SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint The University of Alabama PressPublisher The University of Alabama Press

Christopher Freeburg's Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting the idea that the most dehumanizing of black experiences,...

A provocative testimony of the personal and professional development of the roles and responsibilities of a revisionist African American scholar and activist.Book InformationISBN 9780814337141Author Bernard BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Wayne...

In Approximate Gestures, Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart...

In Masculinist Impulses, Nathan Grant begins his analysis of African American texts by focusing on the fragmentation of values of black masculinity - free labor, self-reliance, and responsibility to family and community - as a result of slavery,...

Revisiting Racialized Voice: African American Ethos in Language and Literature argues that past misconceptions about what constitutes black identity and voice, codified from the 1870s through the 1920s, inform contemporary assumptions about African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870495939Author Jane CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press

African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance, in all its forms. This history of the genre offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century, within the contexts of modernism and the troubled racial...

This title presents new evaluations on the significance of Du Bois. ""The Souls of W. E. B. Du Bois"" is a collection of articles that treat Du Bois on the subject of religion by reintroducing his life and work to an audience that may...

Confluences looks at the prospects for and the potential rewards of breaking down theoretical and disciplinary barriers that have tended to separate African American and postcolonial studies. John Cullen Gruesser's study emphasizes the confluences among...

In this first book-length study of Charles Johnson's work, Jonathan Little offers an engaging account of the artistic growth of one of the most important contemporary African American writers. From his beginnings as a political cartoonist through his...

Southern literature is often celebrated for its "told," rather than "written," qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of...

Commerce in Color examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. James C. Davis argues that racial thinking was central to...

Commerce in Color examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. James C. Davis argues that racial thinking was central to...

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex...

In Progress Compromised, John L. Glenn examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions prompted by black social movements during the 1950s and 1960s. Glenn presents detailed case studies of four major...

Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about - or witnessing - trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature treats reader response...

In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation-a time of...

In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American...

Southern literature is often celebrated for its 'told' rather than 'written' qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156135399Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Harcourt Publishers Group (Australia) Pty.LtdPublisher Elsevier Australia

Histories of rights have too often marginalized Native Americans and African Americans. Correcting this lacuna, Native Land Talk expands our understanding of freedom by examining rights theories that indigenous and African-descended people(s) articulated...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780863584084Author Sandi RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Rivers Oram Press/Pandora ListPublisher Rivers Oram Press

What constitutes "blackness" in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more "authentic" than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic...

What constitutes "blackness" in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more "authentic" than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic...

Published to stellar praise, The World Has Changed boasts revelatory conversations between Walker and other literary and cultural icons-including Howard Zinn, Pema Choedroen, Claudia Tate, Margo Jefferson, William R. Ferris, and Paula Giddings-and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087938523Author Regina JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Regina JenningsPublisher Regina JenningsWeight(grams) 626g

It wasn't all black or white. It wasn't a vogue. It wasn't a failure. By restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissance-or blamed for corrupting it-George Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white)...

This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts," Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the...

This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of African American and European American writers of the 19th century. The importance of mulatto figures as agents of ideological exchange...

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in...

Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings...

This collection of the most interesting and important Negro American writings up to the close of the Civil War is of both literary and social interest, being a contribution to the history of the Negro as well as a literary work. In preparing the...

According to George Jackson, black men born in the US are conditioned to accept the inevitability of being imprisoned.... Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me...

With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813069456Author Andrea StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g

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)...