Black category: 406 books
Artistic Ambassadors
Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked as U.S. representatives abroad. Through the literary and diplomatic dossiers of figures such as Frederick...
Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund the production of black masculine ideality and...
The Desiring Modes of Being Black
Literature and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish....
A Fatherless Child
Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. Yet many of those sons have themselves addressed the issue in autobiographical works that form the core of African American literature.
A...
Black Ink
Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this “breathtaking anthology celebrating the power of the written word to forge change” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Throughout American history black people are the...
The Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines...
by Stephanie J. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly...
Our Living Manhood
Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical...
by Shawan M. Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images....
The Black Pacific Narrative
Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black...
by Howard Rambsy
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the...
The Twenty-first Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life
Blackness as Strategy for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in the racial context of post-9/11 American society is important in considering diverse forms of the lived experiences and subjectivities...
Venus in the Dark
Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography,...