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  • Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature

    A Vernacular Theory

    de Houston A. Baker ...
    Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it. ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

    de Houston A. Baker ...
    "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Black Men from behind the Veil

    Ontological Interrogations

    de Semassa Boko, Clevis Headley, Sterlin Mosley, Reiland Rabaka, Joseph Smith, A. Todd Franklin, Timothy J. Golden, William David Hart, John H. McClendon III, Aaron X. Smith, George Yancy1, Houston A. Baker, Jr.2, Tommy J. Curry3, Arnold L. Farr4, Floyd W. Hayes, III5, Linden F. Lewis6, Josiah Ulysses Young7 ...
    Series series Philosophy of Race
    The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Turning South Again

    Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.

    de Houston A. Baker ...
    In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy

    de Houston A. Baker, Jr. ...
    Series series Black Literature and Culture
    In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Keywords for Southern Studies

    de Erich Nunn, Leigh Anne Duck, Melanie Benson Taylor, Deborah Cohn, Martyn Bone, Coleman Hutchinson, Houston A. Baker Jr., Steven Knepper, John T. Matthews, Michael Bibler, Sylvia Shin-Huey Chong, Briallen Hopper, Claudia Milian, Wanda Rushing, Anna Brickhouse, Eric Lott, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Jayna Brown, Matthew Guterl, Ted Atkinson, Natalie J. Ring, Suzanne Jones, Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Thomas F. Haddox, Eric G. Anderson, Dr. Keith Cartwright ...
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    In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Race and Displacement

    Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century

    de Walter Bosse, Ashon T. Crawley, Matthew Dischinger, Melanie Fritsch, Jonathan Glover, Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Delia Hagen, Deborah Katz, Kathrin Kottemann, Abigail G. H. Manzella, Yumi Pak, Lauren Vedal, Cassie Smith, Dr. Trudier Harris, Regina N. Bradley ...
    Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement allows for nuanced discussions of race and displacement in expansive ways, exploring those issues in transnational ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

    de Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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  • Racecraft

    The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    de Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields ...
    Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Harlem Renaissance

    de the late Nathan Irvin Huggins ...
    A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edición de Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    de Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Leer más

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