Black category: 406 books
Unchained Voices
An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
In Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard for the first time in two centuries.
Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences...
by Darryl Dickson-Carr
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2005
From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth...
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright
The Poetics and Politics of Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
After the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. "I've got to help him, she said. You see, we are both members of a minority group." The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the...
by Linda Janet Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist is the first-ever, full-length biography of a trailblazing artist who championed black women in her fiction as well as in her life. This incisive study provides a comprehensive treatment of Bambara's published and unpublished works, and it also...
by Eyeconik
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
After being snatched from her Manhattan comfort zone and thrusted into the unfamiliarity of Baltimore City; endearing, elegant and enterprising, Mackenzie Daye excited about life and the anticipations of the future. With her radiant smile and uber confidence, she walks in any space and commands attention,...
by Ray Shepard
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
This is the story of a man who lived several distinct chapters of a great American life. From petty criminal to defiant race rights fighter to leader of the Black Muslim movement, his life story is provocative and engrossing.
by Novotny Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Beyond Blaxploitation, the first book-length anthology of scholarly work on blaxploitation film, sustains the momentum that blaxploitation scholarship has recently gained, giving the films an even more prominent place in cinema history. This volume is made up of eleven essays employing historical and...
by Stephen Knadler
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century...
Along the Way
A Collection of Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This book may be unpopular in some circles. The exposure of the truth usually is when it has been hidden or distorted (particularly by those who would profit most by its absence or continued distortion). Yet, are we not our brothers keeper? Are we not to assist or enlighten our kinsmen...our fellow...
by Peter Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader.
Randolph’s story is unique because he was freed and relocated from Virginia to Boston, along with...
Between Two Worlds
Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twenty-first century’s culture of political correctness, the continuing challenge of race and racism, and...
Birth of a Nation'hood
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Birth of a Nation'hood elucidates as never before the grim miasma of the O.J. Simpson case, which has elicited gargantuan fascination.
As they pertain to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money,...
Langston's Salvation
American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion
A new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston Hughes
Langston's Salvation offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought...
Facing Blackness
Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee's Bamboozled
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Spike Lee’s film Bamboozled, released in 2000 to controversy and mixed reviews, follows a frustrated black TV producer on his quest to create a show so offensive it will get him fired. The result is a modern-day minstrel show that, contrary to expectations, becomes a massive hit. A satire of race,...