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  • Conversations with Percival Everett

    Edited by Joe Weixlmann ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ...
    Key themes and ideas presented in "The Souls of Black Folk" include:Double Consciousness: Du Bois introduces the concept of "double consciousness," which refers to the psychological conflict experienced by African Americans due to their identity as both black individuals and American citizens. He discusses how this dual identity shapes their perception of themselves and the world around them.The ... Read more

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  • Notes of a Native Son

    by James Baldwin ...
    A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mozart and Leadbelly

    by Ernest J. Gaines ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer in this collection of stories and essays.Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines faithfully evoke the sorrows and joys of rustic Southern life.From his depiction of his childhood ... Read more

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  • Reading Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis / Liliths Brood

    by John Lennard ...
    Octavia Butler's premature and sudden death in 2006 has been very widely lamented, unhappily confirming her influence as a vital African-American and female pioneer in SF. Xenogenesis (retitled Lilith's Brood in 2000) is one of Butler's most important works, and comprises the novels Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). The Notes cover Octavia Butler's life and work; the ... Read more

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  • The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

    by Lorraine Hansberry ...
    From the award-winning author of A Raisin in the Sun, comes one of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater: an unforgettable portrait of a man struggling with his individual fate in an age of racial and social injustice."Rich and warm and funny... beautifully written.” —Los Angeles TimesThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, along with A Raisin in the Sun, are milestones. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Works of Alain Locke

    Edited by Charles Molesworth ...
    With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Yet, his intellectual contributions extend far beyond that single period of cultural history. Throughout his life he penned essays, on topics ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives after Slavery

    Edited by William L. Andrews ...
    The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery ... Read more

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  • Granta 131

    The Map Is Not the Territory

    by Sigrid Rausing ...
    Series Book 131 - The Magazine of New Writing
    This issue of Granta is about the difference between the world as we see it and the world as it actually is, beyond our faulty memories and tired understanding. It's also about the borderlands of politics and reason, and of reality and transcendence, in contested territories.Ludmila Ulitskaya's diary of cancer treatment in Russia and IsraelRaja Shehadeh on emptying his mother's house in ... Read more

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  • Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults

    Edited by Barbara Thrash Murphy, Deborah L. Murphy ...
    Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators – past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this book is a valuable research tool that provides quick access for anyone studying black children’s literature – whether one is a student, a librarian ... Read more

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  • Recovering Five Generations Hence

    The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

    by Bruce A. Glasrud, Alisha Knight, M. Giulia Fabi, Angela Boswell, Brian M. Jack, Veronica Watson, Nikki Brown ...
    Series Book 120 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained ... Read more

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