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Just us girls Just us girls Wendy Rountree vi, 124 p. ; 23 cm OL11913918W
Outlaw Culture Outlaw Culture Bell Hooks Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran… OL15053153W
Theorizing black theatre Theorizing black theatre Henry Miller "This volume reveals a comprehensive view of the Art or Propaganda debate. Among others, this text addresses the works of Langston Hughes, W.E.B Dubois, Alain Locke, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka,… OL16470023W
Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance Writers of the Black Chicago renaissance Steven C. Tracy "This volume explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance. A movement crafted in the crucible of rigid racial segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 19… OL16597122W
Conditions of the present Conditions of the present Lindon Barrett Collects essays by the late Lindon Barrett, whose scholarship centers African American literature as a site from which to theorize race and liberation in the United States. Barrett confronts critical… OL17889567W
Against the odds Against the odds Louis Kushnick,Paul Grant,Benjamin P. Bowser "Over the course of the past century the struggle against racism took many forms, from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and marches. This book records the testimony of eleven scholar-activists who c… OL17998700W
Encyclopedia of African-American Writing (Third Edition) Encyclopedia of African-American Writing (Third Edition) Bryan Conn Ph.D. xviii, 1112 pages : 29 cm OL18011068W
Thriving on a riff Thriving on a riff David Murray - undifferentiated,Graham Lock This text explores the influence of jazz and blues in two key areas of cultural expression, literature and film, where these musics have often been inextricably linked with notions of racial identity… OL18784718W
African American mystery writers African American mystery writers Frankie Y. Bailey "This book examines works of African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. Chapters cover the movement by Black autho… OL1957003W
Beyond respectability Beyond respectability Brittney C. Cooper Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. E… OL19714668W
The new Negro The new Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawren… OL19732332W
What truth sounds like What truth sounds like Michael Eric Dyson "In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansbe… OL19736259W
The original Black elite The original Black elite Elizabeth Dowling Taylor "Chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era embodied in … OL20048194W
The end of empires The end of empires Gerald Horne "Martin Luther King Jr.'s adaptation of Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolent resistance is the most visible example of the rich history of ties between African Americans and India. In The End of Empires, … OL2632878W
Spectres of 1919 Spectres of 1919 Barbara Foley x, 313 pages : 24 cm OL3721179W
Turning south again Turning south again Houston A. Baker Summary:Offers an account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. This book combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue t… OL4315233W
Claude McKay Claude McKay Wayne F. Cooper Although he is recognized today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century -- the author of "If We Must Die," Home to Harlem, Banana Bottom, and A Long Way from Home, among ot… OL4802942W
Black Apollo of Science Black Apollo of Science Kenneth R. Manning Born in Charleston, S.C., Ernest Everett Just studied "the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of the organism."--Jacket. OL5590846W
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition Aberjhani,Sandra L. West,Clement Alexander Price In this, the world’s first *Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance*, readers do something more than witness the triumphs and tragedies of poets such as Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, novelists like… OL5968389W
Black Power Movement Black Power Movement Peniel E. Joseph The Black Power Movement remains an enigma. Often misunderstood and ill-defined, this radical movement is now beginning to receive sustained and serious scholarly attention. Peniel Joseph has colle… OL8105074W
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