Black category: 406 books
by Khali Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2017
Khali has come back with another Broken Down piece, in which he analyzes his eleventh book. That book is Dear Father: A Heartfelt Letter. What has been his motive with this piece? You can only find out once you read this next masterpiece.
by John Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
The bestselling author of "Those Who Walk in Darkness" delivers the second book of his action-packed series, featuring top LAPD mutant-hunter Soledad O'Roark, who teams up with rival Eddi Aoki when a vigilante starts killing metanormals without mercy. Original.
Just a Sister Away
Understanding the Timeless Connection Between Women of Today and Women in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
The "Essence" bestselling author of "Listening for God" reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sisters--and how to live a better life because of it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Study Guide
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Study Review Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews? This new study guide is perfect for you!! This study guide provides a short and concise review guide of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe. The guide includes: · A short summary...
Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played...
Once Upon a Time in a Different World
Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s literature from the margins to the forefront of literary discourse. Looking at a variety of topics,...
Backwater Blues
The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle...
After Winter
The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's...
Word by Word
Emancipation and the Act of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings—or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors’ perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom.
by Robert S. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Frederick Douglass’s changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.
The Problem of the Future World
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Problem of the Future World is a compelling reassessment of the later writings of the iconic African American activist and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois. As Eric Porter points out, despite the outpouring of scholarship devoted to Du Bois, the broad range of writing he produced during the 1940s...
The Worlds of Langston Hughes
Modernism and Translation in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski...
Challenges of Diversity
Essays on America
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 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...