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  • Within the Circle

    An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

    Edición de Angelyn Mitchell ...
    Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Easy Prey

    Devoured By a Black Man

    de Stacy Green ...
    Series series BMWW Romance Short Stories
    It is extremely hard to remain faithful especially when temptation is right in front of you. This is what caused one man to yield to temptation. He had always been faithful to his wife but just one touch from the perfect female made him lose his cool. She too was fighting her own set of demons. She was in love with a man who was still committed to another... ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Art and Life of Clarence Major

    Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet—as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography of this innovative African ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Understanding James Baldwin

    de Marc Dudley ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An analysis of the groundbreaking author's vision and thematic concernsThe Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. What concerned him most—as a black man, as a gay man, as an American—were notions of isolation and disconnection at both ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • To Shape a New World

    Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Edición de Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry ...
    “Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America’s most revered figures, yet despite his mythic stature, the significance of his political thought remains underappreciated. In this indispensable reappraisal, leading ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft

    White Fragility in the Weird Tales

    Providing a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction.Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," John Steadman argues that the writer's fiction reflects his feelings of resentment and ... Leer más

    $23.89 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • The Truth About Awiti

    de CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Writing for Justice

    Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

    In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, Séjour penned La Tireuse de ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Breaking the World

    Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

    Series series Black Feminism on the Edge
    In Breaking the World, Justin L. Mann argues that Black speculative fictions are an essential but overlooked archive for understanding the modern security ambitions of the United States. Foregrounding how the contemporary security state renders Black life insecure, Mann theorizes worldbreaking: speculative narrative, aesthetic, and ethical strategies that Black writers, musicians, and artists ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship

    Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture

    Ubiquitous triple consciousness frameworks address the limitations of W.E.B Du Bois’ seminal double consciousness concept by emphasizing a third gendered lens, a definite consciousness that legitimizes the rich complexities of the black American female experience.In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture, the author ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 9 Issue 2: Special issue: Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, edited by Warren Crichton and Cameron McCarthy

    Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Picturing the New Negro

    Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity

    Series series CultureAmerica
    Winner: Vasari AwardDuring the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history. In so doing, they set the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance and gave form to some of its most compelling visions.This innovative study examines the efforts of Harlem ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Scattered and Fugitive Things

    How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

    de Laura Helton ...
    Series series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    Winner: St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Arline Custer Memorial Book AwardHonorable Mention: Lawrence W. Levine Award, S-USIH Annual Book PrizeFinalist: ASALH Book Prize for Best New Book in African American History and CultureShortlisted: Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, MLA Prize for a First BookDuri... ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Other Lovings

    An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

    de Seulghee Lee ...
    In Other Lovings, Seulghee Lee traces the presence and plenitude of love embedded in Black and Asian American literatures and cultures to reveal their irreducible power to cohere minoritarian social life. Bringing together Black studies, Asian American studies, affect theory, critical theory, and queer of color critique, Lee examines the bonds of love in works by Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, David ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Forgotten Readers

    Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

    A Roadmap for Readers

    de Keith Clark ...
    One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines’s unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South’s oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Come uccidersi e uccidere in America

    de Kiese Laymon ...
    Traducido por Leonardo Taiuti ...
    Series series Americana
    Nei tredici saggi che compongono questa raccolta Kiese Laymon sonda la propria vita personale trattando questioni legate a razza, famiglia, violenza e successo e mettendole in relazione alla cultura e alla società americana. Ricostruisce il dilagare della pandemia mettendo in luce la nostra incapacità di prenderci cura gli uni degli altri; ripercorre il processo di revisione del suo esordio ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Been Outside

    Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature

    Edición de Shaz Zamore, Amber Wendler ...
    "We’re starting to see...diverse voices on the shelf, a wider variety of experiences on the page, and many different reasons for getting outside. -- Jaime Herndon, Book RiotEncompassing identity, inspiration, ancestry, and stewardship, the essays and poems by leading Black women and nonbinary scientists in Been Outside explore how experiences in the natural world and life sciences shape the self. ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • The Black Cultural Front

    Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

    de Brian Dolinar ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial Organizations's effort to recruit black workers inspired growing interest in the labor ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD

  • Burnin' Down the House

    Home in African American Literature

    Home 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 northern city as well as to the place of the South in African American literature, few have given specific notice to the site of "home." And in the twenty years since Houston A. Baker Jr.'s Blues, ... Leer más

    Antes $29.69 USD Ahora $18.99 USD

  • N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: Civil Rights Champions Edition

    Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years. ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Journeys and Journals

    Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora

    de Carol Allen ...
    Series Libro 127 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected and has extended from the Slave Trade through the contemporary moment, causing the black subject ... Leer más

    $102.49 USD