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  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    PHP57.71

  • Playing in the Dark

    by Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... Read more

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  • America: Criticize It but Stay

    by Dr. David Rabeeya ...
    America is a continent and a country full of cruelties and compassion and even hypocrisy with civility. Legalistic and chaotic, oppressive and democratic, capitalistic in the extreme and religiously generous. Black and White sometimes manage to tolerate each other but they prefer not to live near each other. The boundaries are not secure, but her political representatives spend thousands of hours ... Read more

    PHP419.19

  • Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender

    Transcultural Perspectives

    Edited by Bettina Hofmann, Monika Mueller ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including ... Read more

    PHP3,496.95

  • Selling Antislavery

    Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America

    by Teresa A. Goddu ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse and increasingly segmented audience. To do so, it produced a wide array of print, material, and visual media: almanacs and slave narratives, pincushions and gift books, broadsides and panoramas. Building on the distinctive practices of British ... Read more

    PHP3,407.49

  • N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: African American Icons of Contemporary History

    by Hermene Hartman, David Smallwood ...
    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. ... Read more

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  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

    by Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger, John Cullen Gruesser, John Ernest, M. Fabi, Andreá Williams0, Robert S. Levine1 ...
    Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

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  • Black Futurists In The Information Age: Vision Of A 21st Century Technological Renaissance

    by Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti, Timothy L. Jenkins ...
    Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, they are seeking to raise our consciousness to the accelerating historic transformations that are taking place during the 1990s, in an effort to spotlight the significance of technological change as a ... Read more

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  • Black Cultural Mythology

    by Christel N. Temple ...
    Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language AssociationBlack Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural ... Read more

    PHP2,043.49

  • Toni Morrison and Motherhood

    A Politics of the Heart

    by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Traces Morrison's theory of African American mothering as it is articulated in her novels, essays, speeches, and interviews.Mothering is a central issue for feminist theory, and motherhood is also a persistent presence in the work of Toni Morrison. Examining Morrison's novels ... Read more

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  • Refusing to Be Made Whole

    Disability in Black Women's Writing

    by Anna LaQuawn Hinton ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    In Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Black Women’s Writing, author Anna LaQuawn Hinton examines how contemporary Black women writers present becoming disabled as a traumatic and violent experience of Black womanhood. Nevertheless, Black women embrace disabled Black womanhood by turning to Africanist spiritual understandings of wholeness, which view debilitating injury and illness as not ... Read more

    PHP1,259.19

  • Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    Exploration and analysis of the innovative screenplays and novels by an award-winning playwrightUnderstanding Suzan-Lori Parks is a critical study of a playwright and screenwriter who was the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks is also the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, a Whiting Writers Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, two Obie ... Read more

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  • Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction

    Future Pasts

    by Isiah Lavender III ...
    An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers new directions for serious appraisals of race and racism between yesterday, today, and tomorrowIn Race, Law, and Speculative Fiction, Isiah Lavender III takes seriously the theoretical, stylistic, and rhetorical possibilities inherent in the genre of science fiction toward challenging ... Read more

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  • The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison

    Speaking the Unspeakable

    Edited by Marc C. Conner ...
    A traditional yet fresh approach to grasping the power of Morrison's writingWith essays by Yvonne Atkinson, Marc C. Conner, Susan Corey, Maria DiBattista, Barbara Johnson, Cheryl Lester, Katherine Stern, and Michael WoodNobel laureate Toni Morrison's novels have almost exclusively been examined as sagas illuminating history, race, culture, and gender politics. This gathering of eight essays by top ... Read more

    PHP923.39

  • "Who Set You Flowin'?"

    The African-American Migration Narrative

    by Farah Jasmine Griffin ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of ... Read more

    PHP2,832.49

  • 'Membering Austin Clarke

    Edited by Paul Barrett ...
    'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by ... Read more

    PHP1,342.69

  • The Politics of Richard Wright

    Perspectives on Resistance

    Edited by Jane Anna Gordon, Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh ...
    A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his ... Read more

    PHP1,433.99

  • New Body Politics

    Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States

    by Therí A. Pickens ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Identity Politics
    In the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic American landscape of the present, understanding and bridging dynamic cross-cultural conversations about social and political concerns becomes a complicated humanistic project. How do everyday embodied experiences transform from being anecdotal to having social and political significance? What can the experience of corporeality offer social and ... Read more

    PHP3,730.12

  • Black Land

    Imperial Ethiopianism and African America

    by Professor Nadia Nurhussein ...
    The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. In Black Land, Nadia Nurhussein ... Read more

    PHP1,257.09

  • Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism

    Desire as Power

    by Professor Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
    The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact on such authors as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Dove, and Tracy K. Smith.Focusing specifically on the concept of desire as a liberatory idiom and as the highest expression of self ... Read more

    PHP5,429.99

  • The Black Writers' Toolbox

    A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction

    by Dr Muli Amaye ...
    Presenting a new way of thinking about the practice of writing fiction for Black writers and any writer who includes non-white characters in their work, The Black Writer's Toolbox is a practical guide to crafting authentic Black characters and fictional worlds.For Black writers, there are connotations within description, language, setting, characterisation and voice when they approach the page ... Read more

    PHP1,492.49

  • Brother Mine

    The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank

    by Kathleen Pfeiffer, Jean Toomer, Waldo Frank ...
    The friendship of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank was one of the most emotionally intense, racially complicated, and aesthetically significant relationships in the history of American literary modernism. Waldo Frank was an established white writer who advised and assisted the younger African American Jean Toomer as he pursued a literary career. They met in 1920, began corresponding regularly in 1922, ... Read more

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  • American Socialist Triptych

    The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

    by Mark Van Wienen ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s . . . challenges the intellectual and political legacy of Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?, whose spirit still hovers over animated discussions about the 'failures' ... Read more

    PHP1,550.89

  • Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Isiah Lavender III, Ph.D. Lisa Yaszek ...
    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    Finalist, 2021 Locus AwardIn Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practice that communicates the experience of science, technology, and race across centuries, continents, and cultures. While Ryan Coogler and Janelle Monáe may have helped bring the genre into contemporary pop consciousness, it in ... Read more

    PHP1,257.09