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  • Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War

    Edited by Steven Belletto, Joseph Keith ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a spotlight on writers from the war’s numerous fronts and applying lenses of race, gender, and ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Unbecoming Americans

    Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

    by Joseph Keith ...
    Series series The American Literatures Initiative
    During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Souls of Black Folk (Classic Annotated Edition)

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literature.The book contains several essays on race, some of which the magazine Atlantic Monthly had previously published. To develop this work, Du Bois drew from his own experiences as an African American in American society. ... Read more

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  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Harris Men

    by RM Johnson ...
    RM Johnson's extraordinary novel is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death—and the three sons he abandoned so many years before.“Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer.” Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hardheaded Weather

    by Cornelius Eady ...
    From Cornelius Eady, one of America's most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet's universe and highlights the range of his considerable talents.Cornelius Eady’s poems show him in full control of his considerable talents and displaying a rich maturity as he enters midlife. His poems are sly, unsentimental, and witty, full of truths that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Black Venus 2010

    They Called Her "Hottentot"

    Edited by Deborah Willis ...
    As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body stocking, and paraded through the streets and on stage in a cage she became a human spectacle in London and Paris. Baartman’s distinctive physique became the object of ridicule, curiosity, scientific ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Every Man Deserves a Good Jacket

    by Crystal Evans ...
    If you love a great Jamaican Story, rooted in reality then this book will make you laugh and cry. Not an emotional rollercoaster, just a dose of my reality with a tups of fantasy ... Read more

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  • James Baldwin

    America and Beyond

    by Bill Schwarz, Cora Kaplan ...
    "This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility, of being a black 'American' writer. He took these issues 'Beyond'---Paris, Istanbul, various ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Beyond the Black Atlantic

    Relocating Modernization and Technology

    Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio ...
    Debates about the ‘Black Atlantic’ have alerted us to an experience of modernization that diverges from the dominant Western narratives of globalization and technological progress. This outstanding volume expands the concept of the Black Atlantic by reaching beyond the usual African-American focus of the field, presenting fresh perspectives on postcolonial experiences of technology and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Sonic Color Line

    Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

    by Jennifer Lynn Stoever ...
    Series Book 17 - Postmillennial Pop
    The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on ... Read more

    $24.69 USD