Reading Contemporary African American Literature : Black Women’s Popular Fiction, Post-Civil Rights Experience, and the African American Canon 9780739188798, 9780739188781

The Black Church in the African American Experience 9780822381648

Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black

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The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction 9780231510691

From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guid

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How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation 9781479834778

How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers

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Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature 9780813562513

Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, Afr

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Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias 9783837636604

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physic

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Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature [1 ed.] 9781666921380, 9781666921397

Using the crooked room theory from Melissa Harris-Perry’s Sister Citizen (2011), the author argues that the traumatic le

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African American Literature 2019029439, 2019029440, 9781440871504, 9781440871511

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Teaching African American Literature Through Experiential Praxis: African American Writers in Europe [1st ed.] 9783030485948, 9783030485955

This book focuses on teaching African American literature through experiential praxis. Specifically, the book presents s

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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights 9781631495700

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Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 9781350009424, 9781350009455, 9781350009448

The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era’s mo

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