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Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

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

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Each Hour Redeem

American Slavery

Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature

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Remembering Generations

The Powers of Dignity

Ghosts of the African Diaspora

Forgotten Readers

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