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Black Manhattan by James Weldon Johnson 9781632461155
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632461155Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Im -
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.57Masked in the tradition of the literary confession as practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be the candid account of its narrator's private views... -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 9780393972863
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57Known only as the "Ex-Colored Man," the protagonist in Johnson's novel is forced to choose between celebrating his African American heritage or "passing" as an average white man in a... -
Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson 9781681199559
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681199559Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 32Impr -
The Creation (25th Anniversary Edition) by James Weldon Johnson 9780823440252
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823440252Author James E. RansomeFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 9780140184020
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 9781420952360
Booksplease Price: $11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952360Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Im -
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson 9780809000326
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: A Library of America Paperback Classic by James Weldon Johnson
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $9.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598531138Author James Weldon JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Im -
Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade by Yohuru Williams 9781665902786
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41A moving and inspiring nonfiction picture book about James Weldon Johnson and the first mass all-Black march for civil rights in the United States when 10,000 Black protestors, including children,... -
Trombones: A Sonnet Crown: a remix of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones by Raymond D Maxwell 9780692761038
RRP: $9.38Booksplease Price: $8.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof by Carrie Allen McCray 9781611170856
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86In Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof, Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) uses poignant and personal verse to trace the ill-fated life of the Congolese pygmy who was famously exhibited in the Bronx Zoo in... -
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity by Lindon Barrett 9780252079511
Booksplease Price: $32.15The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of... -
Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes by Jean Wagner
Booksplease Price: $28.03Acclaimed upon its initial American release, Black Poets of the United Statescontinued to spark comment and analysis for years afterward. Jean Wagner's masterpiece delves into the vital union of... -
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry 9781469666099
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.95The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon... -
Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi Andre 9780252083570
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $26.96From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black... -
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.82When 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... -
The Gift to Sing by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193580176
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SABar and piano This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power of song can help to overcome dark times... -
The Gift to Sing by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193580152
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SA and piano This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power of song can help to overcome dark times... -
The Gift to Sing by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193572904
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SATB and piano This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power of song can help to overcome dark times... -
The Gift to Sing by Damien Geter 9780193566323
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied The Gift to Sing is an unaccompanied part-song with a text by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power... -
The Gift to Sing by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193580398
Booksplease Price: $5.52for TB and piano This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power of song can help to overcome dark times... -
Lift ev'ry voice by Edryn J. Coleman 9780193582118
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SABar and piano This inspiring piece opens with repeated powerful statements of the opening line of the text 'Lift every voice and sing' by writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson... -
My heart be brave by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193560802
Booksplease Price: $5.52TTBB unaccompanied Setting inspiring words by James Weldon Johnson, this work is both poignant and stirring, encouraging singers and listeners to reflect on the challenges of present times and to... -
My heart be brave by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193571471
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SSAA unaccompanied Setting inspiring words by James Weldon Johnson, this work is both poignant and stirring, encouraging singers and listeners to reflect on the challenges of present times and... -
My heart be brave by Marques L. A. Garrett 9780193560338
Booksplease Price: $5.52for SATB unaccompanied Setting inspiring words by James Weldon Johnson, this work is both poignant and stirring, encouraging singers and listeners to reflect on the challenges of present times and... -
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37While stowed away on a transatlantic freighter, Lafala is discovered and locked away in an icy-cold closet, resulting in the loss of his frostbitten legs. When his successful lawsuit against the... -
Cane by Jean Toomer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic,... -
Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended Hbcus by Alonzo Vereen
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05A vibrant collection of biographies and illustrated portraits that capture the brilliance of more than thirty American icons, Historically Black is a celebration of Black excellence in fields ranging... -
New York: A Literary Anthology by J M Coghlan 9781035067664
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21New York - the city that never sleeps - is brought to life in this vivid and lively anthology. From Staten Island to the Statue of Liberty, for centuries, authors and poets have been inspired to... -
I'll make me a world by John Rutter 9780193580213
RRP: $16.42Booksplease Price: $13.92for mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and full orchestra or small ensemble This large-scale work sets a poem by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that... -
The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]
RRP: $93.80Booksplease Price: $1.68At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This... -
Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Booksplease Price: $27.08A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of... -
The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever... -
Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
Booksplease Price: $26.96No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926. Carl Van Vechten's novel generated a storm of... -
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593530580
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.72In Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the principal of a segregated, all-black school, wrote the song 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' so his students could sing it for a tribute to Abraham... -
The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780821415436
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War. But he also... -
Sing a Song by Kelly Starling Lyons
Booksplease Price: $17.76Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us. Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. In 1900, in Jacksonville, Florida, two brothers, one of them the... -
Bright Poems for Dark Days: An anthology for hope Julie Sutherland 9780711266810
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41This beautiful book presents poems for hopefulness and happiness, with bright, uplifting illustrations from rising star Carolyn Gavin. This book of joyous and uplifting verse is a welcome beacon of... -
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture by Siobhan B. Somerville 9780822324072 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a...