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63) Maya Angelou
Series
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 295 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
37 Ink/Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word. Throughout American history black people are the only group of people to have been forbidden by law to learn to read. This unique collection seeks to shed light on that injustice and subjugation, as well as the hard-won...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 295 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In To Make Negro Literature Elizabeth McHenry traces African American authorship in the decade following the 1896 legalization of segregation. She shifts critical focus from the published texts of acclaimed writers to unfamiliar practitioners, whose works reflect the unsettledness of African American letters in this period. Analyzing literary projects that were unpublished, unsuccessful, or only partially achieved, McHenry recovers a hidden genealogy...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1,110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
68) Charles Chesnutt
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and writings of the early twentieth-century black author whose novels examine the Afro-American experience.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Publisher
Lion Forge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
197 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2010, Professor John Jennings and Dr. Damian Duffy compiled and published a 176-page collection of art and essays celebrating the vibrant African American independent comics community. Black Comix featured over 50 contributors, including Dawud Anyabwile, Eric Battle, Kenji Marshall, Afua Richardson, Larry Stroman, Rob Stull, Lance Tooks, and many, many more. It met high praise throughout the industry and quickly sold through its respectable print....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
By the time of his death in 1964, Carl Van Vechten had been a far-sighted journalist, a best-selling novelist, a consummate host, an exhaustive archivist, a prescient photographer, and a Negrophile bar non. A white man with an abiding passion for blackness.
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 261 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Encyclopedia of Black Comics focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry. The book focuses on creators in the field of comics: inkers, illustrators, artists, writers, editors, Black comic historians, Black comic convention creators, website creators, archivists and academics--as well as individuals who may not fit into any category...
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