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Nobody Knows My Name

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

You’Re an African American, so Why Are You Talking Like a White Person?

Along the Way

The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature

Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

Aphrodite's Daughters

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

The Dark Delight of Being Strange

African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts

African, American

Each Hour Redeem

American Slavery

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature

Understanding Octavia E. Butler

Remembering Generations

The Powers of Dignity

Ghosts of the African Diaspora

Forgotten Readers

Legal Fictions

Insensible of Boundaries

Collection of the Best Works of Graf Leo Tolstoy: [Where Love is There God is Also by Graf Leo Tolstoy/ What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Graf Leo Tolstoy/ Master and Man by Graf Leo Tolstoy]

Greatest Works of Washington Irving: [Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving/ The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving/ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving]