Stories Collection

  1. W. T. Lhamon, Jr. Jump Jim Crow: Lost Plays, Lyncs and Street Prose of the First Atla...
  2. Early in November of 2002, three poets, all members of the Carolina African American ...
  3. Alexander Saxton. The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Cu...
  4. "On first listening," the liner notes warned, "one might think that Co...
  5. A word about the genesis of "circumspect penelope regards ragged odysseus is, I ...
  6. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, ed. Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers. Kingston...
  7. American film noir depicts a city as dark and labyrinthine as the fate of its protago...
  8. Play it, jazz band! You've got seven languages to speak in And then some ... (Langsto...
  9. Fred Moten. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. Minneapolis:...
  10. Herman Graham, Ill. The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Military...
  11. Mary Ellen Doyle. Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. Baton Ro...
  12. Pauline Hopkins's emergence in American and African American literary scholarship has...
  13. Mary Ellen Doyle. Voices from the Quarters: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines. Baton Ro...
  14. The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a ques...
  15. Almost as soon as blacks could write, it seems, they set out to redefine--against alr...
  16. In September 1998 the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's American Music Master...
  17. Philip Gould. Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century At...
  18. Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. --Toni Morriso...
  19. Isn't it just possible that we are all abikus? ... [W]hy should there be some and not...
  20. Mar Gallego. Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity, Politics and Textual...
  21. Tananarive Due, is originally from Tallahassee, Florida, and now resides in Southern ...
  22. Susan Duffy, ed. The Political Plays of Langston Hughes. Carbondale: Southern Illinoi...
  23. Works for Children and Young Adults. Vol. 11. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes....
  24. Martha Gilman Bower. "Color Struck" under the Gaze: Ethnicity and the Patho...
  25. David Chalmers. Backfire: How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement. Lanh...
  26. Jeff Abernathy. To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. Athens: U ...
  27. Jasmine Ambrosia Marguerite Walker wants to be a star, and she knows just the way to ...
  28. Donna Bailey Nurse. What's a Black Critic to Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of...
  29. On the cold winter morning of January 27, 1788, John Marrant boarded a ship headed fo...
  30. W. Lawrence Hogue. The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric ...
  31. The negroes have no books, they cannot read and they know nothing of how to write. Ye...
  32. In December 1874, the African Methodist Episcopal Church changed the design on the fr...
  33. Harriet E. Wilson. Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black. Edited with a...
  34. By virtually any standard, Spike Lee is a dedicated follower of professional sports. ...
  35. The August 2000 issue of Vanity Fair revived the concept of the "it girl," ...
  36. Lynn Orilla Scott. James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey. East Lansin...
  37. The essence of masculinity is performance. And the essence of the performance has gro...
  38. Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, ed. The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood P, 20...
  39. Charles E. Wilson, Jr. Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood P, 20...
  40. Cecil Brown. Stagolee Shot Billy. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003. 295 pp. $29.95. Ceci...
  41. Nikki Giovanni. Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems. New York: Mor...
  42. Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker, II, and Gus Edwards, eds. Black Theatre: Rit...
  43. In Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, Linda ...
  44. Jelly I turn Elizabeth Street. On the sidewalk there's up a penny. Lincoln, great e...
  45. George Yancey. Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide. Bou...
  46. Fer all I kin tell you, de man mought er bin ez w'ite ez de driven snow, er he mought...
  47. Morning light and the shadows of the branches beyond the window danced on the far wal...
  48. Renee C. Romano. Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America. Cambridge: Har...
  49. "He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind." (Hurston, Mules 3)...
  50. Kiki didn't have anything smaller than a twenty on him at lunch time. He'd pulled out...
  51. Jun Xing and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, eds. Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, ...
  52. Papa Legba, opener of gates, (opportunities) is always the first to receive sacrifice...
  53. Robert B. Betts. In Search of York: The Slave Who Went to the Pacific with Lewis and ...
  54. women with knives February 8, 1928, front-page headline in the New York Amsterdam N...
  55. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2001. 406 pp. $22.00. This is a telling synthesis of Afr...
  56. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002. 164 pp. $34.95. The tension between the individual m...
  57. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2001. 163 pp. $40.00. The field of literature C.L.R. Ja...
  58. In The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Baraka devotes a full chapter to "M...
  59. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002. 260 pp. $27.95. In Stories of Freedom in Black New Yor...
  60. New York: Norton, 1998. 712 pp. $17.95. Nikki Giovanni's "Foreword" to Honey, Hush!...
  61. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2002. 228 pp. $60.00 cloth/$35.00 paper. Deborah Willis, p...
  62. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001. 260 pp. $35.00. On the cover of Davis's book is Theodore ...
  63. Palo Alto: Stanford UP, 2002. 373 pp. $60.00 cloth/$24.95 paper. In 1862, William B...
  64. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2002. 193 pp. $46.00 cloth/$18.00 paper. In his talks w...
  65. Salaam: When you wrote A System of Dante's Hell, at one point you decided just to sta...
  66. Kent: Kent State UP, 2002. 325 pp. $42.00. Author of four biographical sketches of ...
  67. Cambridge: South End P, 2002. 504 pp. $22.00. This collection of essays written fro...
  68. The native intellectual who takes up arms to defend his nation's legitimacy and who w...
  69. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001. 234 pp. $39.95. How did scientists and scholars, and p...
  70. Athens: Ohio UP, 2002. 315 pp. $49.95 cloth/$22.95 paper. In His Own Voice is a com...
  71. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2003. 296 pp. $39.95. Georgina Hickey has written an intere...
  72. Hanover: UP of New England, 2001 265 pp. $26.00. A provocative satire on the impact...
  73. New Brunscwick: Rutgers UP, 2001. 320 pp. 120 illus. $32.00. The product of excepti...
  74. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002. 328 pp. $39.95 cloth/$18.95 paper. Amy Ja...
  75. Minneapolis: New Rivers P, 1998. 95 pp. $12.95. Bryant's manuscript begins with the...
  76. My larger objective here is to engage the current cultural conversation about the nat...
  77. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2002. 270 pp, $35.00. A problematic crux in the criticism o...
  78. Vol. 1, Poems (1921-1940); Vol. 2, Poems (1941-1950); Vol. 3, Poems (1951-1967) Colum...
  79. Durham: Duke UP, 2001. 117 pp. $15.95. Any new book by Houston Baker is mandatory r...
  80. Over years, Amiri Baraka has repeatedly demonstrated his generosity to other poets. S...
  81. The Black Arts Movement of the 1960s has been criticized for substituting a neo-Afric...
  82. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2003. 268 pp. $19.95. Paula J. Massood is concerned in Bla...
  83. Westport: Greenwood P, 2002. 256 pp. $74.95. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie...
  84. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2001-. Surely the general reader of African American lit...
  85. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2002. 215 pp. $59.50. Michael Syrotinski's highly...
  86. Urbana: U of Illinois P. 2002. 275 pp. $29.95. Thanks to the meticulous research an...
  87. Abrahams, Peter. The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Medit...
  88. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2002. 224 pp. $35.00 Jubilee: The Emergence of...
  89. In American classrooms in the first half of the twentieth century, students using the...
  90. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 280 pp. $34.95. Alluding to Ignatius Sancho's iden...
  91. Toni Morrison's second novel, praised for its celebration of girls' friendships, is d...
  92. Sometimes the lyrics mock and signify even as they pretend to weep. (Albert Murray, S...
  93. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2003. 88 pp. $55.00 Samuel Hyde has compiled an interes...
  94. Among Frederick Douglass's formidable skills critic of slavery and racial prejudice, ...
  95. Westport: Greenwood P, 2002. 176 pp. $62.95. According to Sharon L. Jones, African ...
  96. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002. 168 pp. $17.95 T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting's Ne...
  97. Christy Rishoi's brief book From Girl to Woman: American Women' s Coming-of-Age Narra...
  98. Mississippi holds a peculiar place in the history of race relations in the United Sta...
  99. Peter always plopped down heavily on top of me after he came, breathing short and fas...
  100. New York: New P, 2003. 477 pp. $29.95. Kenneth Janken's Walter White was more than ...
  101. 3 P.M. Song of Solomon picks up where Mumbo Jumbo leaves off. That is, in repeating...
  102. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2002. 293 pp. $34.95. Among American cultural products onl...
  103. Through the simple expedient of demonizing and reifying the range of colors on a pale...
  104. ... the metaphor of the chain of communication picks up the sense of contingency as c...
  105. David Margolick. Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Ci...
  106. His voice was faint. A rustle of leaves. Then Reb lifted his head and began to croon ...
  107. Caroline Rody. The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions...
  108. The slave is a part of the master, a living but separated part of his bodily frame. (...
  109. James W. Coleman. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban. Lexington: UP of Kent...
  110. The widespread critical attention August Wilson's work has enjoyed has helped establ...
  111. Jeffrey B. Perry, ed. A Hubert Harrison Reader. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2001. 504 pp...
  112. "Is race a trope?" Anna Deavere Smith's performances not only ask but embody this que...
  113. Hans Ostrom. A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood P. 2002. 495 pp. $95...
  114. The nation was founded on the principles of "free land" (stolen from Native Americans...
  115. I want the whole world to see what they did to my boy. -- Mrs. Mamie Till Bradley O...
  116. Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, eds. Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry. Ann...
  117. From the time of its publication in 1946, Ann Petry's The Street has inspired compari...
  118. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed. African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook. Westport: Gre...
  119. Saadi A. Simawe, ed. Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem...
  120. Readers have long considered Lawd Today!, Richard Wright's first written and last pub...
  121. Dwight A. McBride. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. Ne...
  122. Maria Lauret. Alice Walker. New York: St Martin's P, 2000. 252 pp. $35.00. Within t...
  123. On February 12, 1945, at precisely 3:20 p.m., noted African American intellectual and...
  124. Patrick Rael. Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North. Chapel Hill: ...
  125. Reginald McKnight. He Sleeps. New York: Halt, 2001. 210 pp. $23.00. Reginald McKnig...
  126. During World War II, Chester Himes was one of more than 70,000 African Americans who ...
  127. Paul Allen Anderson, Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. Durh...
  128. In the African American tradition, hybridity is represented in the slave narratives a...
  129. John Stauffer. The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation ...
  130. Myronn Hardy. Approaching the Center. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan U, 2001. 97 pp. $14...
  131. An adventurous novel "intermingling [literary] traditions such as historical romance,...
  132. M. Giulia Fabi. Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel. Urbana: U of Illi...
  133. African Americans have been producing and publishing literature for their children as...
  134. Charles J. Heglar. Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives ...
  135. A Renaissance man for the twenty-first century, author and poet Quincy Troupe is Prof...
  136. Todd Vogel, ed. The Black Press: New Literary and Historical Essays. New Brunswick: R...
  137. Dorothy West's first novel, The Living Is Easy (1948), is easily identified as a "sat...
  138. Virginia Whatley Smith, ed. Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections. Jackso...
  139. When Thunderbuns, the "big and bad matron," charges the aisle of the movie theater in...
  140. Margo V. Perkins. Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties. Jackso...
  141. In the final chapter of Beloved, the narrator repeats, "It was not a story to pass on...