Category - Literary Criticism
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A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins Series #5)
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Easy finally believes he can lead a simple life and leave his haunted past behind him—until he meets a woman who changes everything.November 1963...
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For the Love of Money: A Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in this razor-sharp sequel from acclaimed author Omar Tyree.From hard-k...
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Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also...
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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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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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Lives of Frederick Douglass
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relation...
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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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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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The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History: From Slavery to the Enslaved
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history as it moves t...
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I Woke Up Black What My Eyes Have Seen, My Ears Have Heard, and My Heart Has Felt
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"I Woke Up Black" by Marvin Michael O'Bryant is a story inspired by real-life experiences. It follows the life of Marvin, who has witnessed decades...
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Published in Boston in 1833, Lydia Maria Child's An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans provided the abolitionist movement ...
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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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Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The history of the contemporary is a history of crisis - most centrally, the twinned crises of environmental destruction and anti-Black violence. T...
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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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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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