Primitivist Modernism

Sieglinde Lemke

• Hardcover | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• This book explores a rich cultural hybridity at the heart of transatlantic modernism. Focusing on cubism, jazz, and Josephine Baker's performance in t... Lees meer

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

• Hardcover | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges... Lees meer

Color by Fox

Kristal Brent Zook

• Hardcover | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• Following the overwhelming success of "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned ... Lees meer

The Open Sore of a Continent

Wole Soyinka

• Paperback | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight other activi... Lees meer

Color by Fox

Kristal Brent Zook

• Paperback | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• Following the success of "The Cosby Show" in the 1980s, an unprecedented shift took place in television history: white executives turned to black doll... Lees meer

Race and the Modern Artist

Josef Jaurab

• Paperback | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no c... Lees meer

Crossing Color

Therese Steffen, Therese Frey Steffen

• Hardcover | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• Rita Dove (b. 1952) was elected Poet Laureate--the first ever African-American to hold the position--in 1993, in recognition of work that combines rac... Lees meer

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

• Paperback | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges... Lees meer

Autobiographical Inscriptions

Barbara Rodriguez

• Hardcover | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• By engaging current approaches to the genre, Autobiographical Inscriptions breaks new ground in the field of autobiography studies. The book is center... Lees meer

The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness

Wole Soyinka

• Paperback | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole Soyinka considers all of Africa--indeed, all the world--as he poses this question: once repression stops, is reconci... Lees meer

From Emerson to King

Anita Haya Patterson

• Hardcover | Engels | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
• This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African- American thinkers--W. E. B... Lees meer