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It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur col……続きを見る

The contributions in this collection underline the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the explo……続きを見る

For over a century, the intellectual debate of scholars from African descent has been dominated by the idea of double consciousness spearheaded by W.E.B. DuBois. Interestingly, with many years of ve……続きを見る

This book attempts to identify the subversive writing techniques adopted by the black female authors to empower their black female protagonists. Maryse Condé in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Glor……続きを見る

The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventiesーtermed the post-soul eraーcreated new ways to understand the aesthetics of global racial representat……続きを見る

**Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize Shortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner Award Honorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Out……続きを見る

After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks continued to experience inequality in all phases of Ame……続きを見る

It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur col……続きを見る

The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressiv……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

Dust storms. Flooding. The fear of nuclear fallout. While literary critics associate authors of the 1930s and ’40s with leftist political and economic thought, they often ignore concern in the perio……続きを見る

“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theo……続きを見る

The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert Murray This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, j……続きを見る

More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and just……続きを見る