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F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /How FBI surveillance influenced African American writingFew institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's...
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Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges ...
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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping--crucial to understanding life in the southern United States--from Emancipation to the twen...
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Ballast
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /A poetic sequence using the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole as a lens through which to view the vitality of Black lives and the afterlife ...
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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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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we writ...
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Voices: Past and Present
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Poetry has been at the core of E. B. Love's soul since childhood. She has penned hundreds of beautifully written manuscripts during her teen and ea...
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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha E...
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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha E...
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Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story of Black Slavery. with Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.85 - Original price $9.85Original price $9.85$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In 1841, a 33 year-old black carpenter named Simon Northup was living with his wife and children in upstate New York. A well-known fiddle player, h...
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Shadows Uplifted Volume II: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American Personal Narratives & Autobiographies
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813196459 Media Type: Paperback Publication Date: 11-08-2022 Pages: 112 Product Dimensions: 8.48h x 5.59w x 0.33d Serie...
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28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This first book in the trilogy collection, 28 Days of Poetry, is an eclectic collection of poems celebrating and paying homage to the history and l...
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent ...
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The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. Whil...
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W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of Black Folk: A Graphic Interpretation
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." These were the prescient words of W. E. B. Du Bois's influential 1903 book...
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Blam! Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /African American history has produced countless exceptional heroes, leaders, and role models. The graphic novel, BLAM! Black Lives Always Mattered!...
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all ...
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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave's Journey from Bondage to Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed man of the nineteenth century, based on his a...
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Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures o...
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Richmond's First African Baptist Church
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /First African Baptist Church has served the Richmond community since 1780, proving to be a pillar of strength for African Americans in the former C...
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Progress Compromised: Social Movements and the Individual in African American Postmodern Fiction
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In Progress Compromised, John L. Glenn examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions promp...
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Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Manning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the ear...
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Imperium in Imperio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics....
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