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Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers by Scott Jacques 9780226164083
Booksplease Price: $177.68When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime - ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere - even in upscale... -
Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers by Scott Jacques
Booksplease Price: $48.36When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere - even in upscale suburbs... -
Fighting Words: Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism by Ira Wells 9780817317997
Booksplease Price: $69.89Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters.Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism's much-touted concern with... -
Thinking Through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics by James Edward Ford 9780823286904
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $172.83In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard Wright, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes during the 1930s in order to articulate... -
Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature by Valerie Sweeney Prince 9780231134408
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $105.55Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable attention to the Great Migration and the role of the... -
A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs: Housing Chicago's Great Migration Amani C. Morrison 9781479840885
Booksplease Price: $199.56During the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted... -
'Who Set You Flowin'?': The African-American Migration Narrative by Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780195088977
RRP: $94.56Booksplease Price: $71.90Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centres in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this... -
A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism by Christopher Douglas 9780801447693
RRP: $126.75Booksplease Price: $91.59As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the... -
African American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940: Volume 10 by Eve Dunbar 9781108472555
Booksplease Price: $192.54The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed the Great Depression's economic impact... -
Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature by Michael Davitt Bell 9780226041803
Booksplease Price: $75.58In "Culture, Genre and Literary Vocation" Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers. Bell's influential essays on... -
Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students by Richard Kopley 9780814746981
Booksplease Price: $57.88What can there possibly be left to say about . . .? This common litany, resonant both in and outside of academia, reflects a growing sense that the number of subjects and authors appropriate for... -
Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias by Christa Buschendorf
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $58.48According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This... -
Prospects for the Study of American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students by Richard Kopley 9780814746660
Booksplease Price: $177.20What can there possibly be left to say about . . .? This common litany, resonant both in and outside of academia, reflects a growing sense that the number of subjects and authors appropriate for... -
The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Struggle and Global Decolonisation, 1945-1960 by John Munro 9781107188051
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $70.14This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
Booksplease Price: $57.93The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and... -
Depictions of Home in African American Literature by Trudier Harris 9781793649652
Booksplease Price: $65.99In 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... -
Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities by J. Gerald Kennedy 9780521172622
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $79.91Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy... -
Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature by Lovalerie King 9780807132579
Booksplease Price: $73.89In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of... -
American Modernism and Depression Documentary by Jeff Allred 9780199938544
RRP: $71.16Booksplease Price: $58.58American Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set... -
Zora Neale Hurston: An Annotated Bibliography and Reference Guide by Rose Parkman Davis 9780313303876
Booksplease Price: $110.51Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of 20th-century America's foremost fiction and folklore writers. Though she was criticized by some of her contemporaries, including Richard Wright and Ralph... -
Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature by Jean-Christophe Cloutier
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $207.56Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts-including Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth-to tell the stories of black... -
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal 9780521763592
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $175.48Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major... -
Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal 9781107632912
Booksplease Price: $47.09Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major... -
Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature by Lovalerie King 9780807182901
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of... -
American Modernism and Depression Documentary by Jeff Allred 9780195335682
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $135.60American Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set... -
Hold Love Strong: A Novel by Matthew Aaron Goodman 9781416562047
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.72Born to a thirteen-year-old in the bathroom of his family's small apartment, Abraham Singleton enters a world laden with the obstacles inherent in an impoverished urban community. But when his mother... -
Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities by J. Gerald Kennedy 9780521430104
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90Originally published in 1995, this book gathers together eleven full-length essays on important American short story sequences of the twentieth century. The introduction by J. Gerald Kennedy... -
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone by William H. Bridges
Booksplease Price: $87.28Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese... -
White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature by Tim Engles 9783030080211
Booksplease Price: $99.84White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men... -
White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature by Tim Engles 9783319904597
Booksplease Price: $138.22White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature charts the late twentieth-century development of reactionary emotions commonly felt by resentful, yet often goodhearted white men... -
Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African-American and South African Writing by Stephane Robolin
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Part literary history, part cultural study, Grounds of Engagement examines the relationships and exchanges between black South African and African American writers who sought to create common... -
The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms by Matt Eatough 9780199324705
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $91.81The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from regions like Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India,... -
The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American Literature by Jane Davis 9780313304644
Booksplease Price: $120.18African American writers have created a rich literature that reflects their experiences and achievements. In many instances, whites figure prominently in these works, frequently portrayed as... -
Struggle and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960 W. Lawrence Hogue 9781839997945
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.48In belonging to an oppressed/colonized racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased,... -
Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet by 9780299135041
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Frank Marshall Davis was a prominent poet, journalist, jazz critic, and civil rights activist on the Chicago and Atlanta scene in the 1920s through 1940s. He was an intimate of Langston Hughes and... -
Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature by Rebecka Rutledge Fisher 9781438449326
RRP: $53.63Booksplease Price: $47.68In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Bois's use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in... -
Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race by Claudia Tate 9780195096835
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $51.87Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature... -
Evidential Uncertainty in Causation in Negligence by Gemma Turton 9781849467049
Booksplease Price: $178.80This book undertakes an analysis of academic and judicial responses to the problem of evidential uncertainty in causation in negligence. It seeks to bring clarity to what has become a notoriously... -
Thoreau The Land Surveyor by Patrick Chura 9780813041476
Booksplease Price: $35.22Henry David Thoreau, one of America's most prominent environmental writers, supported himself as a land surveyor for much of his life, parcelling land that would be sold off to loggers. In the only... -
New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State by Michael Szalay
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised...