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  • Politics and Poetics

    The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper

    by Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    Series series African American Life
    Analyzing the writer as an activist and feminist who helped shape the Black women's movement.Frances E. W. Harper was a pioneering figure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature and intellectual thought. A poet, educator, lecturer, essayist, and novelist, she played a key role in the abolitionist and feminist movements, particularly in shaping the Black women's movement. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching

    Early Black Christian Women's Lives Matter

    by April C. E. Langley, Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    Series series African American Life
    A timely invocation of early Black Christian women writers and their legacy of activism.Weaving together the legacies of early Black Christian women, author April C. E. Langley explores the foundational ways in which faith, poetics, and spirituality have shaped Black activism in the United States. In Repoliticizing the Word Through Poetry and Preaching, Langley employs Afrofuturist and Sankofic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Promise of Language

    A Memoir

    by Keith Gilyard, Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    Series series African American Life
    Recounting a life—and language—by an esteemed scholar of African American rhetoric.Finalist for Foreword Indies Book Awards in the Autobiography/ Memoir category!Featured in 2026 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show!In this powerful coming-of-age memoir, author, scholar, and linguist Keith Gilyard presents a testament to the transformative power of language. From his earliest days in the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roses and Revolutions

    The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall

    by Dudley Randall ...
    Series series African American Life
    Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall.Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in African American literature during the twentieth century, best known for his poetry and his work as the editor and publisher of Broadside Press in Detroit. While he published six books of poetry during his life, much of his work is ... Read more

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  • The Social Protests of 2020

    Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality

    by Joyce A. Joyce, Élan R. Alford, Melba Joyce Boyd, Yvonne Fulmore, Carissa M. Harris, Everett Hoagland, Quincy Scott Jones, Ana-Maurine Lara, Wende Marshall, Ewuare Osayande0, Donna Marie Peters1, Edythe Rodriguez2, Margarita M. Castromán Soto3, Yolanda Wisher4, Walter R. Gholson III5, Gregory E. Rutledge6 ...
    The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Wrestling with the Muse

    Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press

    by Melba Joyce Boyd ...
    And as I groped in darknessand felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914–2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

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  • The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its ... Read more

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  • I Am Not Your Negro

    A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

    by Velvet Films, Inc., Raoul Peck ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

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  • 100 Poems to Break Your Heart

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    "A really beautiful book" of poems that delve into—and help us transcend—suffering, loss, fear, and loneliness, by the author of How to Read a Poem ( The Boston Globe).Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our ... Read more

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  • Katie's Canon

    Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community

    Edited by Katie Geneva Cannon ...
    Katie's Canon is a selection of essays written for a variety of occasions throughout Cannon's celebrated career. This new edition contains three additional essays and a new foreword by Emilee Townes. The volume weaves together the particularities of Cannon's own history and the oral tradition of African American women, African American women's literary traditions, and sociocultural and ethical ... Read more

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