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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /On March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelph...
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The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English t...
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The Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the late sixties and early seventies, black separatist movements were sweeping across the United States. This was the era of The Autobiography...
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The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" ...
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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his ...
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The Epistle of Forgiveness: Volume One: A Vision of Heaven and Hell
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose...
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The Epistle of Forgiveness, Volume Two: Or, a Pardon to Enter the Garden: Hypocrites, Heretics, and Other Sinners
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /One of the most unusual books in classical Arabic literature, The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose...
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The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, Roger A. Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black religious thought with sc...
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The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In African studies, the Echeruoan ideal is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well ...
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The Committee
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This wry take on Kafka's novel The Trial revolves around its narrator's attempts to petition successfully the elusive ruling body of his country, k...
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumo...
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The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about ...
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The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fiction produced by black writers. Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campu...
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The Black Poets
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"The claim of The Black Poets to being... an anthology is that it presents the full range of Black-American poetry, from the slave songs to th...
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The Black Humanist Tradition in Anti-Racist Literature: A Fragile Hope
HardcoverOriginal price $129.99 - Original price $129.99Original price $129.99$143.99$143.99 - $143.99Current price $143.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9783031209468 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Publication Date: 06-04-2023 Pages: 216 Series: Studies i...
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years ...
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The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Michael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the mos...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Mas...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Mas...
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Teahouse of the Almighty
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders. “What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin...
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Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Undertaking a sustained interpretation of Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih's novels and short stories, this study focuses primarily on the ways in whi...
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Spirituality as Ideology in Black Women's Film and Literature / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.50 - Original price $19.50Original price $19.50$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Arguing that spirituality functions as a life-affirming ideology on Black women's art, Ryan (English, Ohio Wesleyan U.) shows how Black women fil...
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South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers i...
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Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This collection of original essays brings together some of the most important critics and scholars of Amiri Baraka's oeuvre. Some Other Blues consi...
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