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Black Authors

Dive into a curated collection of works by renowned Black authors. From timeless classics to contemporary masterpieces, discover voices that have shaped literature and championed diversity through the ages.
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    Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

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    Ishmael Reed's classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduc...

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  • Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections

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    A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic viole...

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  • Ishmael Reed: The Plays - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Ishmael Reed: The Plays

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    The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American writers of our time.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781564785510 Media Type:...

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  • The Complete Muhammad Ali - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    The Complete Muhammad Ali

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    Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed's The Complete Muhammad Ali is more...

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  • New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    New and Collected Poems 1964-2007

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    One of the founding fathers of multi-cultural studies, award-winning writer Ishmael Reed first came to the attention of the literary world as a poe...

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  • Juice! - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Juice!

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    In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both a...

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  • From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002

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    Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop--a truly...

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  • Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War

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    This powerful essay collection from an award-winning author takes a critical look at America's history of racism and the battles fought through the...

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  • Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues

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    A new collection of poems from the American author, poet, and playwright Ishmael Reed.The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were writt...

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  • Flight to Canada - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Flight to Canada

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    Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War.Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in...

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  • Black Hollywood Unchained - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    Black Hollywood Unchained

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    In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intellectuals, and artist to examine and respond to th...

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  • Life Among the Aryans - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Life Among the Aryans

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    America's greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controversial new play from Ishmael Reed, Life ...

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    Mumbo Jumbo

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    The classic freewheeling look at race relations through the ages.Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed’s brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civi...

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  • The Slave Who Loved Caviar - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    The Slave Who Loved Caviar

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    The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and ...

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