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Beyond Christianity: African Americans in a New Thought Church
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /Beyond Christianity draws on rich ethnographic work in a Religious Science church in Oakland, California, to illuminate the ways a group of African...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange...
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Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner, 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book PrizeDiverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the ...
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesWhy do b...
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Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $124.95 - Original price $124.95Original price $124.95$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of ...
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A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this collection of essays, talks, and reviews, Major Jackson revels in the work of poetry not only to limn and assess the intellectual and spiri...
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A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism...
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A God of Justice?": The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $23.50 - Original price $23.50Original price $23.50$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Focusing on the representations of spiritual crisis in twentieth-century African American fiction and autobiography, Qiana J. Whitted asks how so...
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A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins Series #5)
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Easy finally believes he can lead a simple life and leave his haunted past behind him—until he meets a woman who changes everything.November 1963...
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African American Literary Theory: A Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The first volume to expound African American literary theory from the 1920s to presentAfrican American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first vol...
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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (A Library of America Anthology)
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Notes From Black ReadsA deep, beautiful and comprehensive overview of African American poetry from 1770 to the present day. You could literally ...
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African Americans and the Culture of Pain
PaperbackOriginal price $22.50 - Original price $22.50Original price $22.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this compelling new study, Debra Walker King considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those prod...
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African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $159.99 - Original price $159.99Original price $159.99$174.99$174.99 - $174.99Current price $174.99| /This book explores the "battles" of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive,...
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African Literature in the Twentieth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /African Literature in the Twentieth Century was first published in 1976. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavail...
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Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In the first published book-length study of Indian fiction in South Africa, Pallavi Rastogi demonstrates that Indians desire South African citize...
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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Winner of the SAMLA Studies AwardHonorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly...
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Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the "Black world" paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the ...
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the signi...
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the sig...
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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latin...
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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latin...
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ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story: African Literature Today
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its ri...
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Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's...
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