Black category: 406 books
Blood Work
Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and...
by Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads the speech she delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
Aphrodite's Daughters
Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic...
My Dear Boy
Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926–1938
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston—Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction...
American Bards
Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national...
My Southern Home
The South and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853),...
American Socialist Triptych
The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois explores the contributions of three writers to the development of American socialism over a fifty--year period and asserts the vitality of socialism in modern American literature...
From Toussaint to Price-Mars
Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought, Scholar, Intellectual, and Theologian Celucien L. Joseph engages Haiti's intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of Haiti's four most important thinkers and writers: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor...
The Real Negro
The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2004
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to
American Slavery: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.
• Helps students understand classic works of American literature from the slavery era by...
Only in America
Mama's Three Angels
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
African American historical from a familys point of view that reflects life in the United States of America during the late 1950s to late 1960s.
by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The classic 1968 edition with historical notes WITH A NEW foreword by Karolyn Smardz Frost.
Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Yet, his intellectual contributions extend far...
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane. When first published in 1923, this pivotal work of modernism was widely hailed as inaugurating a truly...