Black category: 406 books
Landscapes of Hope
Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. Dohra Ahmad adds to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies,...
Indonesian Notebook
A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and...
Family Money
Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from...
Specters of Democracy
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality),...
Street Lit
Representing the Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction—or street lit—has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors. In the 1970s, pioneers such as Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and Claude Brown paved the way for...
Burnin' Down the House
Home in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable attention to the Great Migration and the role of the northern city as well as to the place of the South in African American literature, few have given specific...
Toni Morrison's Fiction
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman’s explorations of Morrison’s themes and narrative strategies. In all Furman surveys...
by Dr. Maggie McKinley
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works by writers ranging from B.A. Botkin, T.S. Eliot,...
by Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching...
Selected Writings and Speeches of James E. Shepard, 1896–1946
Founder of North Carolina Central University
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
James Edward Shepard was an African-American leader between 1900 and 1947. He was, however, more than a race leader. Shepard was a minister, politician, pharmacist, entrepreneur, world traveler, civil servant, businessman, one of the founders of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (the world's...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of essays devoted to studying the intersection of race/ethnicity and narrative theories. Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory...
by Dr John Claborn
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era's most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature...
The New Territory
Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc C. Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel, Timothy Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve, Eric J. Sundquist, and Steven E. Tracy
Ralph Ellison once said, “We’re only a partially achieved...