Fiction - Black Reads
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"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 med...
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Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505486 ...
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Spectral Evidence: Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A powerful meditation on Blackness, beauty, faith, and the force of law, from the beloved award-winning author of Digest and Air TrafficElegant, ...
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You Get What You Pay for: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerA collection of essays that run the gamut from alienation to American Christianity. Morgan Parker’s narrative voice is ...
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, “elegant” (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexit...
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The Black Box: Writing the Race
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Notes From Your BooksellerHenry Louis Gates has spent decades at the forefront of African American studies, and here he brings it all together in...
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Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438489469 Media Type...
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Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to ...
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Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr. (Hardback)
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Jerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected s...
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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that throu...
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African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to re...
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Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $38.50 - Original price $38.50Original price $38.50$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europhone African literature. Vaku...
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Shadow and Dream: Alive in Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $24.20 - Original price $24.20Original price $24.20$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Harry Garuba's Shadow and Dream, a slim yet highly influential collection which immediately gained a cult following, has continued to elicit the aw...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...
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Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful charact...
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Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rh...
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Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rh...
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How To Become The Conqueror: An African American Revelation
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Taking a profound look at the African American experience and the far-reaching impacts of colonization and Western Civilization, this intimate rela...
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West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Finalist, Weber-Clements PrizeLuminaries of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others-...
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Black Folklorists in Pursuit of Equality: African American Identity and Cultural Politics, 1893-1943
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /After the Civil War, Emancipation purportedly brought physical freedom to African Americans. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, blacks cont...
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"I Am Not Your Black, America!"
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Mesh...
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Djeha, the North African Trickster
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Djeha--also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations--is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has ...
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Depictions of Home in African American Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the h...
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