Black category: 406 books
by Donna Bailey Nurse
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In Whats a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper,...
The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art
Performing Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...
Abandoning the Black Hero
Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious...
The Haverford Discussions
A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael's and Charles Hamilton's Black Power, and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. In 1969 a group of distinguished African American...
Beyond the Black Atlantic
Relocating Modernization and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2006
Debates about the ‘Black Atlantic’ have alerted us to an experience of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological progress. This outstanding volume expands the concept of the Black Atlantic by reaching beyond the usual African-American focus...
Being and Race
Black Writing Since 1970
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
For the first time in ebook, renowned scholar Charles Johnson’s exploration of contemporary black literature and the meaning of the black experience as expressed through the writers Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, David Bradley, and others.
Charles Johnson approaches contemporary black literature...
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism
Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Césaire, Dorothy West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions of early-twentieth-century literature: Guadeloupean Suzanne Lacascade (dates unknown), African American Marita Bonner (1899--1971),...
The African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African...
The Other Blacklist
The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W....
Physics of Blackness
Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
What does it mean to be Black? If Blackness is not biological in origin but socially and discursively constructed, does the meaning of Blackness change over time and space? In Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology, Michelle M. Wright argues that although we often explicitly define...
Exodus Politics
Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and ideologies of this movement paradoxically undermined the collective enfranchisement of black...
Not Guilty
Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Patrick Dorismond, Abner Louima, and Amadou Diallo -- hear what a jury of prominent African Americans has to say about the black man's struggle for justice in America
Prompted by the killing of Amadou Diallo and the acquittal of the four New York City police officers who mistook him for an...