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The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
1920 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first...
Trying to Get Over
African American Directors after Blaxploitation, 1977-1986
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
From 1972 to 1976, Hollywood made an unprecedented number of films targeted at black audiences. But following this era known as "blaxploitation," the momentum suddenly reversed for black filmmakers, and a large void separates the end of blaxploitation from the black film explosion that followed the arrival...
Beyond Blackface
African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various disciplines, ranging from theater and literature to history and music, to address the complex roles of black performers, entrepreneurs, and consumers in American...
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism
Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899--1971),...
The Apache Wars
The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland.
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the white...
A Refugee from His Race
Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
During one of the darkest periods of U.S. history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgee (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as "one of the best friends of the...
by Tim Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
People ask what this book is about. It’s about the fights, battles and wars that the American Indian won. A very common question then is asked. “Were there any...besides Custer’s Last Stand?”Yes. The Indian actually won quite often.The Battle of the Little Bighorn or Custer’s Last Stand...
Slave Breeding
Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abolitionists to twentieth-century filmmakers and artists, Americans have debated whether slave owners deliberately and coercively manipulated...
Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook
Domestic Workers in the South,1865-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other...
Publishing Blackness
Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for...
by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Jean Fagan Yellin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller
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This Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published...
38 Nooses
Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little Crow counseled caution,...
American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820
A Guide to Identification and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Bracelets, buckles, buttons, and beads. Clasps, combs, and chains. Items of personal adornment fill museum collections and are regularly uncovered in historical period archaeological excavations. But until the publication of this comprehensive volume, there has been no basic guide to help curators,...