African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905881932Author Sigrid RausingFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta MagazineWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 209mm *...

A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary...

In 1829 David Walker, a free black born in Wilmington, North Carolina, wrote one of America's most provocative political documents of the nineteenth century, Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. Decrying the savage and unchristian...

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important writing in prose by African American women before 1865. The book reproduces in one volume the canon of...

The first and only anthology dedicated to Douglass's three journeys to Britain, covering oratory, print and visual culture The only monograph and anthology to focus on Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Open Book) 2013. Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781555976071Author Kevin YoungFormat...

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An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062334732Author Gregg HecimovichFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

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The essays in this volume represent the major currents in critical thinking about Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison's widely acclaimed examination of the individual quest for self-knowledge in the context of the African-American experience. This collection...

Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783414408662Author Chancellor WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Parker PublishingPublisher Parker PublishingWeight(grams) 925gDimensions(mm)...

In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and...

Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This expansive collection seeks to shed light on that injustice, putting some of America's most cherished voices in a conversation in...

The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America - these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising...

At the turn of the twentieth century, M. E. Ravage set off in steerage for America, one of almost two million Jews who, like millions of others from eastern and southern Europe, were lured by tales of worldly success. Seventeen years after arriving on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978625351Author Ann FieldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Writer's Block, Inc.Publisher Writer's Block, Inc.Weight(grams) 327g

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"Alexander's important documentary edition restores T. Thomas Fortune's central place in African American thought and activism during the age of Jim Crow. His well-executed edition is essential for all college, university, and public library...

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Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history. Yet the genre's impact extended far...

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Women have always been historians. Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women functioned as teachers of history and historical interpreters, offering narrations of the past to criticize existent narratives and inspire new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253908Author Aaron Ngozi OforleaFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982926970Author Freddie OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Fredrick Owen WegelaPublisher Fredrick Owen WegelaWeight(grams) 440g

This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578797878Author Jenjii F HystenFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Blaze Consulting GroupPublisher Blaze Consulting GroupWeight(grams) 127g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578342993Author Niki R FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Bowker Identifiers ServicesPublisher Bowker Identifiers ServicesWeight(grams) 136g

Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, Kenneth McClane's first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is closely related to his second collection, Color, published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2009. Walls is a powerful and deeply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513209111Author Pauline E HopkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 724Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096459Author Ernest J. GainesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 188gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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