Forging Freedom in W. E. B. Du Bois's Twilight Years

Phillip Luke Sinitiere

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Contributions by Murali Balaji, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Christopher Cameron, Carlton Dwayne Floyd, Robert Greene II, Andre E. Johnson, Werner Lange, L... Lees meer

Rediscovering Frank Yerby

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-ly... Lees meer

Labor Pains

Christin Marie Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalism. While scholars have long associated... Lees meer

Pieces of Freedom

Lee Ann Timreck

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Pi... Lees meer

Literacy in a Long Blues Note

Coretta M Pittman

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black w... Lees meer

Performing Racial Uplift

Juanita Karpf

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• In Performing Racial Uplift: E. Azalia Hackley and African American Activism in the Postbellum to Pre-Harlem Era , Juanita Karpf rediscovers the caree... Lees meer

African American Haiku

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• African American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected asp... Lees meer

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Mat Callahan

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some... Lees meer

Literacy in a Long Blues Note

Coretta M Pittman

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black w... Lees meer

African American Sonnet

Timo Muller

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Some of the best known African American poems are sonnets: Claude McKay's "If We Must Die," Countee Cullen's "Yet Do I Marvel," Gwendolyn Brooks's "Fi... Lees meer

African American Preachers and Politics

Dennis C Dickerson

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The story of two African American ministers and their struggle to balance both sacred and secular worlds During most of the twentieth century, Archiba... Lees meer

Can Anything Beat White?

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• A treasure trove of correspondence among novelist Ann Petry's ancestors Ann Petry (1908-1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black w... Lees meer

See Justice Done

Christopher Michael Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition , author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American lit... Lees meer

Unexpected Places

Eric Gardner

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, John Mifflin Brow... Lees meer

The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

Kenton Rambsy

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on long... Lees meer

No Small Thing

William H Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The Mississippi Freedom Vote in 1963 consisted of an integrated citizens' campaign for civil rights. With candidates Aaron Henry, a black pharmacist f... Lees meer

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Mat Callahan

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some... Lees meer

Aaron Henry

Aaron Henry, Constance Curry

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• This book reveals why Aaron Henry (1922-1997) should be acknowledged, in the ranks of Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, as a truly influential crusad... Lees meer

The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello

Lindsey R Swindall

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• A study of the famed actor's barrier-breaking Shakespearean performances Lindsey R. Swindall examines the historical and political context of acclaime... Lees meer

The Souls of White Folk

Veronica T Watson

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• "This remarkable book not only offers an apt reminder of the extensive African American tradition of writing and theorizing about whiteness but also c... Lees meer

The Other World of Richard Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. Through the minimal form o... Lees meer

Daisy Bates

Grif Stockley

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Daisy Bates (1914-1999) is renowned as the mentor of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend Central High School in Little Rock, A... Lees meer

The Souls of White Folk

Veronica T Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers ... Lees meer

Lockstep and Dance

Linda G Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• An examination of those who resist, wield, and respond to stereotypes in literature, film, sports, and music Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men i... Lees meer