Black category: 406 books
Postracial America?
An Interdisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The concept of a “postracial” America —the dream of a nation beyond race — has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden...
Letters from Amherst
Five Narrative Letters
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Five substantial letters written from 1989 to 1991 bring readers into conversation with Hugo and Nebula Award winning-author Samuel Delany. With engaging prose, Delany shares details about his work, his relationships, and the thoughts he had while living in Amherst and teaching as a professor at the...
by Martin R. Delany
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Martin R. Delany’s Blake (c. 1860) tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape from a southern plantation and his travels in the U.S., Canada, Africa, and Cuba on a mission to unite blacks of the Atlantic region in the struggle for freedom. Jerome McGann’s edition offers the first correct printing of the work and an authoritative introduction.
Uptown Conversation
The New Jazz Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2004
Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music...
by Sam Time (Osama Taiym)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Volume Two of the dystopian novel series. OAIB chronicles the misadventures of a stoner named Osama (no relation to OBL or Osama Bin Laden). International Unexpurgated Edition.
The Whiskey of our Discontent
Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
2017 is the Centenary of Gwendolyn Brooks birth. Brooks Centennial programs are being planned for most major U.S. cities, including Chicago, New York City, Boston, Los Angeles and others. Lansana is on the organizing committee for the Chicago Centennial celebration.
Only two books of critical...
Summary and Analysis of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Based on the Book by Zorah Neale Hurston
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Their Eyes Were Watching God tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Zora Neale Hurston’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed...
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern...
Remembering Generations
Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of...
Sites of Slavery
Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods,...
by Paula T. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children’s literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served...
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...