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A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry. Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates……続きを見る

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black peop……続きを見る

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce. Irony, Agency and the Globa……続きを見る

In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for her biography of famed Black abolitionist, writer, and Civil War veteran Mart……続きを見る

The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact o……続きを見る

PROSE Awards Category WinnerーMedia and Cultural Studies, 2025 Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly……続きを見る

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with system……続きを見る

What does it mean to live as a ghost, to live with ghosts, and how might ghosts lead to a path of healing and reimagining? Through an investigation of the intimate relationship between haunting and ……続きを見る

Adán y Eva en el paraíso Explora una colección única de los mejores clásicos de la literatura en español. Sumérgete en historias inolvidables, poesía emotiva y obras maestras que han dejado huella e……続きを見る

Book 1: Embark on a thrilling journey of intrigue and survival with “Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.” Stevenson's classic adventure novel follows the young David Balfour as he faces danger, bet……続きを見る

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious. In……続きを見る

In this cutting-edge work, Rosetta R. Haynes explores the spiritual autobiographies of five nineteenth-century female African American itinerant preachers to discover the ways in which they drew upo……続きを見る

Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper edit……続きを見る

In Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of be……続きを見る

During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked……続きを見る

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people. For Howard Zinn in 1964, SNCC members……続きを見る

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Bloodーnow available in paperbackーconstituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary ……続きを見る

Anne Spencer’s identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on natur……続きを見る

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s T……続きを見る

Winnerー2022 College Language Association Book Prize Finalistー2024 African Literature Association's Best Scholarly Book Award Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebeーauthor of Things Fall Apart, one of th……続きを見る

Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and ……続きを見る

Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and i……続きを見る

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city’s Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, ……続きを見る

Winner: Vasari Award During the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as……続きを見る

"Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond’s] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial ……続きを見る

When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In pr……続きを見る

Winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award Winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year A Pitchfork Best Music Book of the Year “Brooks traces all kinds of li……続きを見る

Finalist for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflexive Studies In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, ……続きを見る

Winner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic In Frottage, Keguro Mac……続きを見る

An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of t……続きを見る