Black category: 406 books
Bound to Respect
Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
In Bound to Respect: Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861, Keith Michael Green examines key texts that illuminate forms of black bondage and captivity that existed within and alongside slavery....
Bodyminds Reimagined
(Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates...
Wrestling with the Muse
Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
And as I groped in darkness
and felt the pain of millions,
gradually, like day driving night across the continent,
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.
—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"
In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall...
The Cross of Redemption
Uncollected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form.
James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned...
Territories of the Soul
Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth—that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on...
by Virginia Lynn Moylan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
In 1948, false accusations of child molestation all but erased the reputation and career Zora Neale Hurston had worked for decades to build. Sensationalized in the profit-seeking press and relentlessly pursued by a prosecution more interested in a personal crusade than justice, the morals charge brought...
Abstractionist Aesthetics
Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2015
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a...
Africana Critical Theory
Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This...
Black Skin, Blue Books
African Americans and Wales, 1845-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples of actual friendships and cultural exchanges between African Americans and the Welsh, such as Paul Robeson’s...
by Kevin Bates
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
‘Still Beautiful’ takes readers on a path of nostalgia; a time where “Black is beautiful” wasn’t just a phrase, it was a way of life. It’s filled with illustrations through out from renowned artist Stephen Cole giving the poetry more effect. Kevin’s words paint memorable portraits of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their...
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...
Whitman Noir
Black America and the Good Gray Poet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Walt Whitman’s now-famous maxim about “containing the multitudes” has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratizing impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the color line? Early in his career, especially in the manuscripts leading up to the first...
Authentic Blackness
The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 1999
What constitutes “blackness” in American culture? And who gets to define whether or not someone is truly African American? Is a struggling hip-hop artist more “authentic” than a conservative Supreme Court justice? In Authentic Blackness J. Martin Favor looks to the New Negro Movement—also...