Black category: 406 books
Who Writes for Black Children?
African American Children’s Literature before 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials,...
Black Atlas
Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism,...
by Sherita L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism...
Contact Zones
Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. Likewise, black diasporic film tends to focus on the complexities of transnational identity, which oscillates between similarity...
Archives of the Black Atlantic
Reading Between Literature and History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary...
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopolitical movements of the Black Diaspora in the writings of key political figures. It comparatively and dialogically examines such movements as Pan-Africanism,...
Writing through Jane Crow
Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and...
Dividing Lines
Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
One of the most extensive studies of class in nineteenth-century African American literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between class differences, racial solidarity, and the quest for civil rights in black communities. By portraying...
The Omni-Americans
Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
Rediscover the "most important book on black-white relationships" in America in a special 50th anniversary edition introduced by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
"The United States is in actuality not a nation of black people and white people. It is a nation of multicolored people. . . . Any fool can...
by Shirley Moody-Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning...
by Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, Ellen Douglas, and Ernest Gaines have employed oral storytelling...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people...
Progress Compromised
Social Movements and the Individual in African American Postmodern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
In Progress Compromised, John L. Glenn examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions prompted by black social movements during the 1950s and 1960s. Glenn presents detailed case studies of four major novels that illuminate specific periods crucial...
by Shirley Moody-Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning...