African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553385373Author Gerald EarlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 482g

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Anthologies) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781940596471Author Valerie BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lookout...

The anthology shares the poetic voices of many who were touched by the suffering experienced by the people of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. The poetry represents a multitude of emotions and reactions, not unlike those...

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktalePerhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie...

American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food;...

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's...

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the...

From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of...

An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society...

A showcase of the extraordinary career America's first Black novelist and pivotal figure in African American literature "It is difficult to imagine any one of his contemporaries who contributed as much or as richly to so many genres." -Henry Louis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393923698Author Henry Louis GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 1472Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators - past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this...

American Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food;...

"An expansive spectrum of literary purpose and aesthetics that shine fiercely" -from the introduction by Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate The Carolina African American Writers' Collective celebrates its twenty-fifth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513282916Author Pauline E. HpokinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 722Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940939612Author Abiodun OyewoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint 2Leaf PressPublisher 2Leaf PressWeight(grams) 666gDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012949Author Gayl JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012727Author Remica Bingham-RisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497946316Author Thomas CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 136g

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 9780268207151Author Kenneth McClaneFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141015Author Kevin PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), Paul Laurence Dunbar earned a reputation as an...

Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513282398Author Alain LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and impassioned abolitionist in the decades leading up to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015926Author Remica Bingham-RisherFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators - past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this...

An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385424011Author Marita GoldenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998178004Author Cyrus AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Black HoursPublisher Black HoursWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 4mm

Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work. Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990082191Author Rj JosephFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Seventh TerracePublisher Seventh TerraceWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging...

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With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After being forcibly taken across the Atlantic, enslaved Africans were moved within Cuba, and sometimes sold to...

Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This Everyman's Library collection includes his bestselling, galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time-which gave voice to...