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A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval 9781642591033
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $61.72Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly... -
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy 9781496838728
Booksplease Price: $186.06Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African... -
America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology by Cynthia H. Tolentino 9780816651115
Booksplease Price: $53.51During World War II, the rising visibility of anticolonial and antiracist movements exposed contradictions between the U.S. democratic mission in Europe and racist practices against people of color... -
Murder, in Fact: Disillusionment and Death in the American True Crime Novel by Lana A. Whited 9781476672243
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of... -
Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by Ayesha K. Hardison 9780813935935
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.12In 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... -
Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature by Thadious M. Davis 9781469621951
RRP: $77.70Booksplease Price: $66.38In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and... -
David Gilmour: Luck and Strange Complete David Gilmour 9780500031063
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $59.64A unique photo chronicle by Polly Samson of the creation, recording and live performance of David Gilmour's album Luck and Strange. Featuring both colour and black-and-white photography by Polly... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503636941
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $162.52Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership... -
The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide by M. Keith Booker 9780313304705
Booksplease Price: $140.47Unique in its scope of coverage, this reference work provides students and scholars interested in researching modern American leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place for... -
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith 9780813559674
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $172.64During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it... -
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith 9780813559667
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $50.72During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it... -
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy 9781496838735
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African... -
Juneteenth Ralph Ellison 9780241215005
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything'... -
The Wings of Atalanta - Essays Written along the Color Line by Mark Richardson 9781571132390
Booksplease Price: $74.38This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore, America is - has always been - an imaginary place with real people living in it. The second is that slavery... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $31.02Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis,... -
Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa by John Cullen Gruesser
Booksplease Price: $73.79Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple... -
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy by Dennis Looney 9780268160746
Booksplease Price: $185.35Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have... -
The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 by Stephanie Brown 9781604739732
Booksplease Price: $95.15Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books lining shelves and filling barracks trunks were not the... -
Conversations with Kiese Laymon by Constance Bailey 9781496858115
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $149.39In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews... -
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 by Timothy B. Spears
Booksplease Price: $59.96During the late nineteenth century, Chicago's population grew at an astonishing rate, with an estimated growth of 900,000 people between 1860 and 1890. Drawn to the opportunities generated by an... -
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 by Timothy B. Spears 9780226768731
Booksplease Price: $193.81During the late nineteenth century, Chicago's population grew at an astonishing rate, with an estimated growth of 900,000 people between 1860 and 1890. Drawn to the opportunities generated by an... -
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing by James Olney 9780226628165
Booksplease Price: $194.75Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the... -
A Concise Companion to American Fiction 1900–1950 by P Stoneley 9781405133678
Booksplease Price: $74.00An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion... -
The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr 9780241678503
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $40.38A foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves over the course of the country's history.Distilled over many years from Henry Louis... -
Creolizing Hannah Arendt by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat 9781538176566
Booksplease Price: $202.97Creolizing Hannah Arendt is the first book to explore the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt (1906-75) and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism,... -
Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 by Jay Watson 9780820343365
RRP: $279.20Booksplease Price: $165.00Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been over idealised and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialised and... -
Doggone Bones by Carolyn Haines 9781250377654
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $37.09After a dog belonging to local pet activist Tilly Lawson is snatched right out of her backyard in Sunflower County, MS, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency are up to their ears in concerned... -
Orienting of Attention by Richard D. Wright 9780195130492
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $94.86This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it with numerous... -
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life by Christopher Freeburg 9780813940328
Booksplease Price: $54.85Christopher 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... -
Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays by Matthew Teutsch 9781496827821
Booksplease Price: $186.06Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Masse, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson... -
The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges by Sarah Lowndes 9781138599000
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary... -
Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher by Marc C. Conner 9781604735062
Booksplease Price: $60.00Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading... -
Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by John K. Young 9781604735482
Booksplease Price: $60.00Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as ""a book about Negroes by a Negro,"" despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the title of... -
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-writing by James Olney
Booksplease Price: $64.53Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the... -
Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction by Gavan Lennon 9781474461573
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $186.71Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation Investigates the role of writing in the civil right movementExplores neglected... -
Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South: Resistance and Non-Violence by Professor Preston King 9780415463645
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thoughtFrederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin... -
Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America by Dohra Ahmad 9780195332766
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $155.34Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and... -
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"The Inside Light": New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston by Deborah G. Plant 9780313365171
Booksplease Price: $98.81This exploration of Zora Neale Hurston's life and work draws on a wealth of newly discovered information and manuscripts that bring new dimensions of her writing to light. "The Inside Light": New... -
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson by Keith Clark
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31Challenging the standard portrayals of Black men in African American literature From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant... -
Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir by Eugene Goodheart
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $93.18What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly...