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“keith byerman”

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  • Lynching in American Literature and Journalism

    by Yoshinobu Hakutani, Keith Byerman, Neil R. McMillen, Kiyohiko Murayama, Donald Pizer, Noel Polk, Michael Sanders, Robert Butler, Toru Kiuchi, Debbie Lelekis0 ...
    Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 European Americans. More than 73 ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction

    by Keith Byerman ...
    With close readings of more than twenty novels by writers including Ernest Gaines, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, Gloria Naylor, and John Edgar Wideman, Keith Byerman examines the trend among African American novelists of the late twentieth century to write about black history rather than about their own present. Employing cultural criticism and trauma theory, Byerman frames these works as ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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    by CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

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  • Bunk

    The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

    by Kevin Young ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • In the Wake

    On Blackness and Being

    by Christina Sharpe ...
    In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of ... Read more

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  • I Wonder as I Wander

    An Autobiography

    by Langston Hughes ...
    Series series American Century
    The most dramatic and intimate moments of Langston Hughes's life in the turbulent 1930s. The second volume of his autobiography following The Big Sea .Langston Hughes picks up where he left off in The Big Sea, which focused on his early life and involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. In this sequel, his wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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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  • Sites of Slavery

    Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

    by Salamishah Tillet ...
    More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae ... Read more

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  • Black Post-Blackness

    The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

    by Margo Natalie Crawford ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post ... Read more

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  • Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

    Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston

    by Dr. Susan E Meisenhelder ...
    Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick examines the ways Zora Neale Hurston circumvented the constraints of the white publishing world and a predominantly white readership to critique white culture and its effects on the black community. A number of critics have concluded that Hurston simply capitulated to external demands, writing stories white people wanted to hear. Susan Edwards ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Mixed Folk

    Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium

    by Michele Elam ...
    The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical. ... Read more

    $26.29 USD