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PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /2022 Reprint of the 1931 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Jean Toomer was on...
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note...
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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant med...
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Humanitarian Fictions: Africa, Altruism, and the Narrative Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This book argues that the novel can enrich the critique of white saviorism while also imagining alternatives.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505486 ...
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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, “elegant” (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexit...
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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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Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts
PaperbackOriginal price $33.95 - Original price $33.95Original price $33.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /An engaging homage to African American resilience and resourcefulness in US literature and culture.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438489469 Media Type...
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CliffsNotes on Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Literature Notes
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /When you need help understanding a book, choose the name you've trusted for years-CliffsNotes. Gain the understanding you need with our in-depth li...
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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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Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to ...
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The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11: Peering Into the Deep
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11, investigating their presentation of h...
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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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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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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that throu...
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African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /African Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the Twenty-First Century examines contemporary fiction by African women authors to re...
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Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $38.50 - Original price $38.50Original price $38.50$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Toward the Decolonization of the Europhone African Novel is a treatise on the problematics of language choice in Europhone African literature. Vaku...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...
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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoi...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Sp...
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Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women's Travel
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Sp...
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Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero
PaperbackOriginal price $30.95 - Original price $30.95Original price $30.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful charact...
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Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rh...
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Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $114.95 - Original price $114.95Original price $114.95$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rh...
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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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