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 Smiling through the Apocalypse;: Esquire's History of the SixtiesBest Price: $103.68 This is a must read for anyone who grew up during the 60's, and anyone who wants to... |  Heavy Daughter Blues: Poems and Stories, 1968-1986Poet Wanda Coleman provides a how-to manual, revealing some immediate ways not only to "fix... |  Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American LiteratureBest Price: $29.95 Black Metafiction examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature.... |  Conversations with Nikki Giovanni (Literary conversations series)Out of this collection of twenty-two interviews spanning two decades rises the distinctive voice... |  Conversations with Ralph Ellison (Literary Conversations)Best Price: $12.00 |
 The HealingBest Price: $4.74 |  Racism in Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (Social Issues in Literature)Best Price: $23.42 |  Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, and VampiresBest Price: $40.00 I have been a strict, non-fiction reader for years. I have been encouraged by many to get more... |  Black Satin (Contemporary Erotic Fiction by Writers of African Origin)Best Price: $16.20 Featuring Bebe Moore Campbell, Eric Jerome Dickey, Toni Morrison, Stanley Crouch, Julie Dash,... |  Fifth Born: A NovelBest Price: $8.00 My heart simply weeps for Odessa, the fifth born daughter of a neglectful, irresponsible mother... |
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 The Planet of Junior BrownAlready a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on... |  Oak and Ivy (Notable American Authors Series)Best Price: $75.00 This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,... |  My Bondage and My FreedomReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in... |  Lyrics Of Sunshine And ShadowThis book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations,... |  Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (Critical Essays on British Literature)Best Price: $20.40 |
 The Man in My BasementBest Price: $31.83 A New York Times Bestselling Author A Book of the Month Club Alternate Selection A Black... |  Naughty Or NiceBest Price: $16.60 I've been a big fan of the books by Eric Jerome Dickey for years and I highly recommend this... |  Sanctuary (Creating the North American Landscape)Best Price: $11.50 The title of Sanctuary refers to a place of worship and also a state of mind: Thomas Roma places... |  Black America Speaks: Voices of ProtestBest Price: $44.44 Vinie Burrows, James Earl Jones, Josephine Premice, Josh White, Jr., Langston Hughes and others... | Black Heart (Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives) Best Price: $25.62 Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the... |
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 Tales of Tenderness and Power (African Writers Series)Best Price: $55.50 This is an anthology of stories, personal observations and historic legends. It reflects the... |  Those Who Walk in DarknessBest Price: $11.27 I bought this book with anticipation, because the book blurb intrigued me. Boy, was I... |  JoyBest Price: $3.99 I read this book 2 times once when I was 18 and the second time when I was 28. The book from... |  Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American MenBest Price: $4.00 AN EPIC, EVOCATIVE HISTORY-FROM JAMESTOWN TO THE MILLION MAN MARCH "In her own special,... |  Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property LawBest Price: $27.95 "Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics... |
 Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 (Class : Culture)Best Price: $19.50 Commerce in Color explores the juncture of consumer culture and race by examining... |  On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation (Under Discussion)Best Price: $151.43 This essential book collects reviews and essays on the art and career of Gwendolyn Brooks, the... |  Ed Bullins: Twelve Plays and Selected WritingsBest Price: $85.00 Ed Bullins: Twelve Plays and Selected Writings brings together significant and provocative... |  Swing Low: Black Men WritingBest Price: $63.28 In a companion volume to I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like , Rebecca Carroll presents candid,... |  Best African American Fiction 2010Best Price: $6.89 Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology collects the... |
 Best African American Essays 2010Best Price: $7.90 Here is the superb second edition of the annual anthology devoted to the best nonfiction writing... |  The leaving morning (Houghton Mifflin reading)Best Price: $5.99 Leaving a place can be long when, days before, you've already said good-bye to everyone you... |  Solo Girl (Houghton Mifflin reading)Best Price: $3.45 As the new girl in town, Cass is desperate to join the neighborhood jump-rope club, and, with... |  Day Late and a Dollar ShortMuch-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price... |  TheThird Life of Grange CopelandDespondent over the futility of life in the South, black tenant farmer Grange Copeland leaves... |
 Just Above My HeadThe damn'd blood burst, first through his nostrils, then pounded through the veins in his... |  Survivor |  Wisdom of the EldersBest Price: $0.60 "Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you... |  By the Light of My Father's SmileBest Price: $4.99 I view Alice Walker's individual works as part of a continuing Life Conversation; one that... |  Mumbo JumboBest Price: $86.60 Mumbo Jumbo is book that can be explained in one word...confusing! The intent was good, trying... |
 Miss Tizzy (Primary place)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The eccentric Miss Tizzy, a beloved friend to all the... |  PatternmasterThe Patternist is a telepathic race, commanded by the Patternmaster, whose thoughts can destroy,... |  Black Women Writers: A Critical Evaluation (1950-1980 : a Critical Evaluation)This unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by... |  EROTIQUE NOIREThis is my third purchase of this book. It is a very enjoyable book for those who enjoy... |  Blood on the ForgeBest Price: $2.49 First published in 1941, this is a scalding, uncompromising novel of the Great Migration and its... |
 Wedding, TheBest Price: $4.45 The Wedding by Edna West is an enthralling and refreshing tale of romance and self-examination... |  God, Doctor Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo IslandBest Price: $17.94 This book is spellbinding in more ways than one. In this modern era of homogenized mass-market... |  Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture (New Black Studies Series)Best Price: $14.99 This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of... |  Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Blacks in the Diaspora)Best Price: $49.95 I bought this book b/c my girlfriend from high school wrote it. It is perfect for my personal... |  Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church (Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture)Best Price: $5.81 With an introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize?winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Covenant is, in the... |
 Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy (ND Devers Series Dante & Med. Ital. Lit.)Best Price: $15.58 Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a... |  Homemade LoveBest Price: $4.95 Cooper is a master at revealing truths about simple, yet complex life events. These stories are... |  nappy edgesBest Price: $3.22 NAPPY EDGES by Ntozake Shange is a collection of poetry written during the Seventies on a... |  Langston Hughes: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)Best Price: $38.95 Langston Hughes was raised by a grandmother who actively aided the Underground Railroad, and his... |  Deals with the DevilBest Price: $10.00 This collection of essays from Pearl Cleage, Black nationalist, feminist (actually a womanist)... |
 Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist CriticismBest Price: $18.00 Are black women accomplices and partners of maintaining black patriarchy? By engaging African... |  Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture)Best Price: $17.59 In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by... |  Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language DiversityBest Price: $12.55 Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in... |  Encyclopedia of the Chicago Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Chicago Renaissance Writers (Literary Movements)Best Price: $1.94 |  In One Act (Exxon Lecture Series)Best Price: $7.15 "Adrienne Kennedy in One Act" collects eight plays by this remarkable American... |
 The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of RealismBest Price: $73.56 "Culture" is a term we commonly use to explain the differences in our ways of living.... |  Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry (Modern and Contemporary Poetics)This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of... |  To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern NovelBest Price: $14.95 This study of the construction of race in American culture takes its title from a central story... |  Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her VoiceBest Price: $33.95 Just when it seems that every possible scholastic measure has been exercised to determine the... |  Toni Morrison and Womanist Discourse (Modern American Literature)Aoi Mori has examined the culture and politics of Toni Morrison's fiction from the... |
 'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African AmericaBest Price: $2.18 ***** Well Done, Informative, the Way it Was The book describes marriage and commitment... |  After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. BrownBest Price: $85.97 John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length... |  Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Black Literature and Culture Series)Best Price: $25.00 In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues... |  Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (Black Literature and Culture)Best Price: $12.80 In a major contribution to the study of race in American literature, Kenneth W. Warren argues... |  Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre (Studies in International Performance)Best Price: $67.28 Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries... examines popular forms of... |
 Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Incendiary PicturesBest Price: $36.22 Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship... |  Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American LiteratureBest Price: $84.08 Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth... |  Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American LiteratureBest Price: $8.95 I am fascinated with the style of writing and the subject matter of this book, which critiques... |  Black Feminism in Contemporary DramaBest Price: $33.00 In tracing black feminism in contemporary drama by black women playwrights, Lisa M. Anderson... | |
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