Black category: 406 books
All Stories Are True
History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine....
by Eyeconik
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The iridescent Mackenzie finds herself completely submerged in a sea of uncertainty. Faced with the harsh and heartbreaking reality that she could lose both of her parents; she begins to try to find a way to make it. The journey that she embarks on is reputable. She learns the importance of honoring...
by Renee Barlow, Chase Dimock, Timothy Golden
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African American literature embodied existentialist thought. To make its case, this daring book dissects eight...
by Stanley P Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature.
In CliffsNotes on The Contender, you look into a moral tale that emphasizes the importance of the fight over the prize, the quality of the struggle over the outcome.
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Fictions of Integration
American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less...
by Sherry Ann McNett
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
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by Philip Levine
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
The inspiration for the title poem of Philip Levine’s A Walk with Tom Jefferson is not the founding father and third president of the United States that most readers would imagine upon hearing the name. Levine’s Tom Jefferson is quite different from his namesake: he is an African American living...
Savoring the Salt
The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
The extraordinary spirit of Toni Cade Bambara lives on in Savoring the Salt, a vibrant and appreciative recollection of the work and legacy of the multi-talented African American writer, teacher, filmmaker, and activist. Among the contributors who remember Bambara, reflect on her work, and examine...
by Jill Bergman
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions...
Margaret Garner
The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery....
by Robin Chanel
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Jadon “Don” Jackson was born and raised in South Central, California. Born into a gang-infested neighborhood with a missing father, Jadon yearns for more, at any cost. This story follows Jadon’s life from young boy, to small time drug dealer; when an...
Shadowing the White Man’s Burden
U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem “The White Man’s Burden.” While some of his American readers argued that the poem served as justification for imperialist practices, others saw Kipling’s satirical talents at work and read it as condemnation....
Mastering Slavery
Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a...
by Kaycee Carter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
An Interracial Paranormal Novella! When seventeen-year old Zaria's Bennett's father tragically passed away trying to save her from a blazing house fire, Zaria thought her life would never be the same. Several years later, things start to look up. Zaria wins prom queen at her mostly-white...