Songs of Slavery and Emancipation

Mat Callahan

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Throughout the history of slavery, enslaved people organized resistance, escape, and rebellion. Sustaining them in this struggle was their music, some... Lees meer

Passing in the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• An exploration of a great American writer's abiding concern with the color line Essays by Margaret D. Bauer, Keith Byerman, Martha J. Cutter, SallyAnn... Lees meer

The Souls of White Folk

Veronica T Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing t... Lees meer

Searching for the New Black Man

Ronda C Henry Anthony

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Oba... Lees meer

Raymond Pace Alexander

David A Canton

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The story of a nearly forgotten lawyer fighting for justice Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a di... Lees meer

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights ... Lees meer

African American Haiku

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• African American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected asp... Lees meer

In the Lion's Mouth

Omar H Ali

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and ... Lees meer

To Write in the Light of Freedom

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mi... Lees meer

Borders of Equality

Lee Sartain

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation an... Lees meer

All Stories Are True

Tracie Church Guzzio

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• In All Stories Are True , Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzi... Lees meer

Unexpected Places

Eric Gardner

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• In January of 1861, on the eve of both the Civil War and the rebirth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Christian Recorder, John Mifflin Brow... Lees meer

Activism in the Name of God

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McL... Lees meer

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

Shirley Moody-Turner

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore... Lees meer

To Write in the Light of Freedom

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Fifty years after Freedom Summer, To Write in the Light of Freedom offers a glimpse into the hearts of the African American youths who attended the Mi... Lees meer

Labor Pains

Christin Marie Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Winner of the 2019 Eudora Welty Prize From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Popular Front produced a significant era in African American literary radicalis... Lees meer

The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

Kenton Rambsy

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on long... Lees meer

Rediscovering Frank Yerby

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-ly... Lees meer

Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought

Kristin Waters

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Named a 2022 finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History from the African American Intellectual History Society Maria W. St... Lees meer

Perspectives on Percival Everett

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Percival Everett (b. 1956) writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet underexamined African Amer... Lees meer

Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Contributions by Tunde Adeleke, Brian D. Behnken, Minkah Makalani, Benita Roth, Gregory D. Smithers, Simon Wendt, and Danielle L. Wiggins Black intell... Lees meer

The Other World of Richard Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. Through the minimal form o... Lees meer

Aaron Henry

Aaron Henry, Constance Curry

• Paperback | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• This book reveals why Aaron Henry (1922-1997) should be acknowledged, in the ranks of Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, as a truly influential crusad... Lees meer

Can't Stand Still

Michael K Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
• Born in 1893 into the only African American family in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, Emmanuel Taylor Gordon (1893-1971) became an internationally fam... Lees meer