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Gender Nation, and the Arabic Novel: Egypt, 1892-2008
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /From the end of the nineteenth century and into the twenty-first, Arabic novels and Egyptian fiction have experienced a rebirth as the literary lan...
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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than one hundred award-winning poets, including Jeri...
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Freedom Beyond Confinement: Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and Letters
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particul...
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Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /For a while, tracing African roots in the artistic creations of blacks in the New World tended to generate much attention as if to suggest that t...
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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize hi...
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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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Distant Train
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /While the fading autumn sun sped toward the horizon, the young boys headed home--they were not used to trying to see at night without the moon's gl...
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Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Notes From Black ReadsWalter Mosely's Devil in a Blue Dress was written in 1990 and set in 1948. The 30th anniversary edition gives us pause to ...
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Daddy Was a Number Runner / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Bald...
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Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past i...
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Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of ...
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Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary explores the relationship between rape and narratives of violen...
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Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it...
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Chinua Achebe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his...
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership--this is the fiction that shaped African American cu...
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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery...
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant min...
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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to und...
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Black Time and the Aesthetic Possibility of Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The decades following the civil rights and decolonization movements of the sixties and seventies--termed the post-soul era--created new ways to und...
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Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraraci...
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Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraraci...
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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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Black Betty (Easy Rawlins Series #4)
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything—until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.For most Black American...
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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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