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  • N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: Entrepreneurs Edition

    Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years. ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: Civil Rights Champions Edition

    Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years. ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • My Life and An Era

    The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin

    “My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience—freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”—John Hope FranklinBuck Colbert Franklin (1879–1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Literary Writing in the 21st Century

    Conversations

    de Anis Shivani ...
    In Literary Writing in the 21st Century an incredible array of today’s leading fiction writers, poets, critics, editors, publishers, and booksellers engage in no-holds-barred dialogue about the challenging issues facing writing and publishing today. Whether it’s the impact of innovative technologies, proliferation of new modes of teaching and learning, changing economic dynamics for publishers, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Edición de Lynn Domina ...
    Series Libro 176 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Under Representation

    The Racial Regime of Aesthetics

    de David Lloyd ...
    Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation of aesthetics to race, Lloyd challenges the absence of sustained thought about race in postcolonial studies, as well as the lack of sustained attention to aesthetics in critical race theory.Late ... Leer más

    $30.59 USD

  • The Worlds of Langston Hughes

    Modernism and Translation in the Americas

    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 contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • The Sonic Color Line

    Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

    Series Libro 17 - Postmillennial Pop
    The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on ... Leer más

    Antes $28.79 USD Ahora $24.69 USD

  • Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas

    From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson

    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Cuba, abd Colombia from authors including Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Toni Morrison, and ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Richard Wright and Transnationalism

    New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature

    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in transnational contexts, formed by the new nations surfacing from colonial rule. Richard Wright and Transnationalism demonstrates how Wright, beginning with ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • If We Must Die

    From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls

    Series series African American Life
    Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.In If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls, author Aimé J. Ellis argues that throughout slavery, the Jim Crow era, and more recently in the proliferation of the prison industrial complex, the violent threat of death ... Leer más

    $22.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Toni Morrison and the New Black

    Reading God Help the Child

    de Jaleel Akhtar ...
    Toni Morrison and the New Black examines how Morrison explores the concept of the new black in the context of post-soul, post-black and post-racial discourses. Morrison evolves the new black as symbolic of unprecedented black success in all walks of life, from politics to the media, business and beyond.The author's work shows how the new black reaffirms the possibility of upward mobility and ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • African Identities

    Pan-Africanisms and Black Identities

    This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century.Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora

    History, Language, and Identity

    Series series Crosscurrents in African American History
    Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, and Mary Prince represent the best of African American women writers who draw on the tortuous legacy of their people as a source for their art, revealing and defining themselves as they create compelling narratives that illuminate their roots, their heritage, and their unique culture. The themes that suffuse their writing are family, community, strong ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Gesammelte Werke: Romane, Kurzgeschichten, Memoiren und Humoristische Reiseerzählungen

    Humor und Abenteuer mit Lokalkolorit: vom Mississippi bis zur Welt

    Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Romane, Kurzgeschichten, Memoiren und Humoristische Reiseerzählungen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), besser bekannt unter seinem Pseudonym Mark Twain - war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Mark Twain ist vor allem als Autor der Bücher über die Abenteuer ... Leer más

    $1.17 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

    Through the Unusual Door

    Edición de Stephen C. Wicks ...
    Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door examines the thirty-eight-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (born in Knoxville, 1901; died in Paris, 1979) and writer James Baldwin (born in New York, 1924; died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1987) and the ways their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped each other’s creative output and worldview. This full-color ... Leer más

    $9.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • On Harper Lee

    Essays and Reflections

    Edición de Alice Hall Petry ...
    Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon-tens of millions of copies sold worldwide-there is surprisingly little secondary literature on Lee and her only novel. On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections is the first collection of original essays on the author and her magnum ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reading Black Books

    How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just

    de Claude Atcho ...
    Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts)Midwest Book Review 2023****Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy)Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American l... ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Conversations with Michael S. Harper

    Edición de John Zheng, Michael Antonucci ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Conversations with Michael S. Harper brings together fourteen interviews with one of the most innovative and influential voices in contemporary American poetry. A distinguished professor at Brown University and the author of fifteen poetry collections, Michael S. Harper (1938–2016) infused his work with the rhythms of jazz and blues, creating a lyrical space where Black history, culture, and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

    de Paolo Pitari ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the "existentialist contradiction": the impossibility of affirming the meaningfulness of life and an ethics of compassion while believing in free will.To substantiate this thesis ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Souths in Her

    Black Women Writers and Choreographers and the Poetics of Transmutation

    Series series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    Since the Middle Passage, the intellectual and physical freedom of Black women in the United States and the Caribbean has been constrained. Yet Black women writers, artists, choreographers, and performers have contested pervasive political, cultural, and discursive silencing by drawing on the traditions and creative visions of multiple Souths: the Southern United States and the Caribbean, as well ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Spiritual Interrogations

    Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing

    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people.Katherine Clay ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Haunted Property

    Slavery and the Gothic

    Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book PrizeAt the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD