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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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A Long Way from Home
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From one of the most significant figures of the Harlem Renaissance comes a narrative defining book chronicling his life from Jamaica to New York Ci...
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Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Born in Cartersville, Georg...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first Afric...
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Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac Gaarriye: Biography and Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac "Gaarriye" (1951-2012) was a well-known Somali speaking contemporary poet. Originally from Hargeysa, Somaliland he was among ...
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Maisha ni kugharimia: French edition
PaperbackOriginal price $9.00 - Original price $9.00Original price $9.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Autobiographie en kiswahili d'un magistrat et po te tanzanien Le texte en kiswahili de ce livre correspond au manuscrit de l'autobiographie de Math...
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi...
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James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in...
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Yours for Humanity: New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction ...
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Anne Spencer Between Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during...
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Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet Lucille Clifton has published thirteen volumes...
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Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth centur...
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Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays re...
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Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writ...
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Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The...
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her iden...
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James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be def...
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The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At once the ideal introduction to the legendary Nobel Prize winner and a lovely and moving keepsake for her devoted readers: a treasury of quotat...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Black ReadsBeautiful, brutal, and often banned – this modern classic gives an unflinching view of a childhood rooted in pain that flo...
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” —NPR In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes o...
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I Shall Not Be Moved
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sin...
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented comp...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /On the 150th anniversary of his birth, a definitive new biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dun...
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