Black category: 406 books
The Amen Corner
A Play
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering...
Within the Circle
An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 1994
Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black...
Calls and Responses
The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed...
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars
A New Pandora's Box
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism,...
At Home Inside
A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. Her novels The Street, Country Place, and The Narrows, along with a collection of short stories and various essays and works of nonfiction, give voice to black experience...
by Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti, Timothy L. Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2018
Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, they are seeking to raise our consciousness to the accelerating historic transformations that are taking...
The Politics of Richard Wright
Perspectives on Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black...
Recovering Five Generations Hence
The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that...
Picture Freedom
Remaking Black Visuality in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality...
Fugitive Science
Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book
Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association
Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism.
Traversing the archives...
Extravagant Abjection
Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Theorizing...
Characters of Blood
Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women—Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel...
In the Wake
On Blackness and Being
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch...
by Gabriel A. Briggs
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the...