Black category: 406 books
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing...
Close Kin and Distant Relatives
The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called...
Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this...
by Carmen L. Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an increasing...
Crossing the Line
Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice...
Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
Reading Encounters between Black and Red, 1922–1963
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors—and on twentieth-century American debates about race—Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain remaps black modernism, revealing the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators – past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this book is a valuable research tool that provides...
Spirit in the Dark
A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these movements, animating and organizing...
American Lazarus
Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003
The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which...
by Keith Byerman
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
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...
A Lie of Reinvention
Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A Lie of Reinvention is a response to Manning Marable’s biography of Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. Marable’s book was controversially acclaimed by some as his magna opus. At the same time, it was denounced and debated by others as a worthless read full of conjecture, errors, and without any new...
Prophetic Remembrance
Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and Black South African...
Barbaric Culture and Black Critique
Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he discusses—Ottobah...
by Kathy Glass
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s text—in particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998)—as richly creative documents saturated...