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Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagreements about the cultural significance of jazz t……続きを見る

How did writers and artists view the intersection of architecture and race in the modernist era? Winner of the MSA First Book Prize of the Modernist Studies Association With the development of the f……続きを見る

Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociati……続きを見る

Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s textーin particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quic……続きを見る

Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introducti……続きを見る

A complete overview of an innovative and analytical author who rose from poverty Among the many gifted African American authors who emerged in the 1970s and 80s, John Edgar Wideman is one of the mos……続きを見る

This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the “neo-urban novel,” and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impac……続きを見る

This book critically examines classic works of literature and film to suggest ways in which study of fictional characters, cultural themes, and vivid imagery helps us to grapple with, understand, an……続きを見る

America is a continent and a country full of cruelties and compassion and even hypocrisy with civility. Legalistic and chaotic, oppressive and democratic, capitalistic in the extreme and religiously……続きを見る

A son of the times, award-winning columnist John W. Fountain writes about everyday life, from the serious to the sublime. He writes about everything from life and homicide to poverty and hope. He wr……続きを見る

African American historical from a familys point of view that reflects life in the United States of America during the late 1950s to late 1960s. 続きを見る

Charles H. Long is one of the most influential and pioneering scholars in the study of religion from the past 50 years. This is the first comprehensive collection of his writings, edited by Long him……続きを見る

This book may be unpopular in some circles. The exposure of the truth usually is when it has been hidden or distorted (particularly by those who would profit most by its absence or continued distort……続きを見る

“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.” ーAnnette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of Books Martin ……続きを見る

In 'The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky', readers are immersed in the deep psychological explorations and moral dilemmas that define Dostoyevsky's writing. From his exploration of existential t……続きを見る

African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; ……続きを見る

As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a daz……続きを見る

Analyzing literary texts and films, White Rebels in Black shows how German authors have since the 1950s appropriated black popular culture, particularly music, to distance themselves from the legacy……続きを見る

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the ridd……続きを見る

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodymindsーthe intertwinement of the mental and the physicalーin the context of race……続きを見る

Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa is a special volume on Jean Price-Mars that reassesses the importance of his thought and legacy, and the implications of his ideas in the twent……続きを見る

In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted “Epistrophy,” one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song’s title refers to a literary deviceーthe repetition of a word or phra……続きを見る

Thomas Hardy's 'Wessex Tales Series: 18 Novels & Stories (Complete Collection)' introduces readers to a collection of captivating tales set in the fictional region of Wessex. Hardy's literary style ……続きを見る

Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds……続きを見る

The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization tha……続きを見る

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of A……続きを見る

The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House Magdalena J. Zaborowska emplo……続きを見る

One of the most prolific African American authors of his time, John A. Williams (1925-2015) made his mark as a journalist, educator, and writer. Having worked for Newsweek, Ebony, and Jet magazines,……続きを見る

In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentieth- and recent twenty-first-century representations of the Middle Passage creat……続きを見る

We live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen moreーnot just hear things, but actively listenーparticularly in relation to how we engage race, gender, and class differenc……続きを見る