African American & Black

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,...

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...

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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...

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...

For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393923704Author Henry Louis GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1632Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513218557Author Frances Ellen Watkins HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684986774Author John W RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.Publisher Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420973471Author Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887318912Author Samuel W Holder, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887318899Author Samuel W Holder, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987879917Author Omari RichardsFormat HardbackPage Count 748Imprint Anansi PublicationsPublisher Anansi PublicationsWeight(grams) 1243gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578309996Author Quniana FutrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Spirit Filled Creations LLCPublisher Spirit Filled Creations LLCWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324084150Author Henry Louis GatesImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781324084112Author Henry Louis GatesImprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736442241Author Elizabeth KeckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Csrc StorytellingPublisher Csrc StorytellingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960536006Author Ronald Eugene StokesFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Ocie PublishingPublisher Ocie PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154654Author Walt HarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942863069Author Sy'needa PenlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint AdeenysPublisher AdeenysWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733396417Author Charron MonayeFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Pen LegacyPublisher Pen LegacyWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537901Author Ernest J. GainesFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 567g

Percival Everett (b. 1956) writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998502014Author Dara KalimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Dara KalimaPublisher Dara KalimaWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614720201Author Joan R ShermanFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint Berkshire Publishing Group LLCPublisher Berkshire Publishing Group LLCWeight(grams)...

As surprising as it might seem now, during the late eighteenth century many early Americans asked themselves, "How could a person of one race come to be another?" Racial thought at the close of the eighteenth century differed radically from that of the...

Using oral history and the printed word, Sterling A. Brown set out during the Second World War to capture the response of African Americans, primarily living in the South, to America's involvement in the war and how it affected them. These responses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218515539Author Britton LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Britton Speaks LLCPublisher Britton Speaks LLCWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218584924Author Tsitsi Michelle ZawairaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Unbowed SpiritPublisher Unbowed SpiritWeight(grams) 191g

For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990086090Author Greg FranksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Renaissance PressPublisher Renaissance PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027330003Author Harriet JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732371064Author Sharran C TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Sharran C. TaylorPublisher Sharran C. TaylorWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357489003Author William Wells BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986562902Author Amman F AsfawFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Gen Z(eal) PublicationsPublisher Gen Z(eal) PublicationsWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640322691Author W E B Du BoisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Chump ChangePublisher Chump ChangeWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988198925Author S J ClaybonFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint S.J. ClaybonPublisher S.J. ClaybonWeight(grams) 336g