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Playing in the Dark

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Macbeth in Harlem

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Not Your Mother's Mammy

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Not Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of
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Death Rights

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Series series SUNY Press Open Access
Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studies, and feminist theory, Deanna P. Koretsky argues that romanticism is part and parcel of the legal and ... Read more

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Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studies, and feminist theory, Deanna P. Koretsky argues that romanticism is part and parcel of the legal and
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Venus in the Dark

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In this third edition of the classic cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the “Hottentot Venus” and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.In 1810, Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to ... Read more

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In this third edition of the classic cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the “Hottentot Venus” and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.In 1810, Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to
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Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle

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by Gurleen Grewal ...

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Deans and Truants

Race and Realism in African American Literature

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For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those ... Read more

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Depictions of Home in African American Literature

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In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a tradition of portraying dysfunctional and physically or emotionally violent homespaces. Harris ... Read more

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In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a tradition of portraying dysfunctional and physically or emotionally violent homespaces. Harris
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AMERICA... SPELLS... I AM RACE by Gerard Matthews is a bold and thought-provoking exploration of identity, power, and cultural legacy in modern America. Blending historical insight, social commentary, and personal reflection, Matthews challenges readers to confront the truths about race and equality that shape the nation's past and present. Through a voice that is both poetic and powerful, the
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The New Negro Renaissance: Harlem Modernism and African American Literature

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The New Negro Renaissance: Harlem Modernism and African American Literature by Dean Wallace explores the transformative cultural movement of the Harlem Renaissance and its lasting impact on African American literature and identity. The book examines how this period of artistic and intellectual ferment, set against the backdrop of Harlem in the 1920s, redefined African American culture and placed ... Read more

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His-Story is My Story's Mystery

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The Power "2b" (to be) or become is most certainly a divine right. Those who are direct decendants of the slave ships, jim crow south and institutionalized racism that is still causing inequality...it is to these matters that inspired me to share my thoughts of outrage from a first hand viewpoint. ... Read more

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Letters I Never Sent

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In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology to Du Bois as innovator of the sociology of ... Read more

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Black Pulp

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A deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justiceIn recent years, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Marvel’s Black Panther, and HBO’s Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just ... Read more

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Collection of the Best Works of Henry David Thoreau: [Walking by Henry David Thoreau/ On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau/ Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau]

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Book 1: Explore the philosophy of nature and walking with “Walking by Henry David Thoreau.” Thoreau's essay celebrates the act of walking as a form of connection with nature, reflection, and spiritual rejuvenation. Through lyrical prose and contemplative observations, this work encourages readers to embrace the simple yet profound act of walking as a means of attuning oneself to the natural world ... Read more

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Adán y Eva en el paraíso (Spanish Edition)

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Adán y Eva en el paraíso Explora una colección única de los mejores clásicos de la literatura en español. Sumérgete en historias inolvidables, poesía emotiva y obras maestras que han dejado huella en la historia. Desde relatos épicos hasta reflexiones profundas, encuentra inspiración en la riqueza y diversidad de la literatura clásica. Perfecto para lectores apasionados por los tesoros literarios ... Read more

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Adán y Eva en el paraíso Explora una colección única de los mejores clásicos de la literatura en español. Sumérgete en historias inolvidables, poesía emotiva y obras maestras que han dejado huella en la historia. Desde relatos épicos hasta reflexiones profundas, encuentra inspiración en la riqueza y diversidad de la literatura clásica. Perfecto para lectores apasionados por los tesoros literarios
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Death Rights

Venus in the Dark

Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle

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Being and Race

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AMERICA... SPELLS... I AM RACE

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