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The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. Accessible to undergraduates and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a rapidly-growing field and lays the foundation for future studies.
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9781107059832 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 2, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature.
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9781107635647 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 2, 2015, cover price $29.99
9780396090717, titled "Optimum Brain Power: A Total Program for Increasing Your Intelligence" | Reprint edition (Dodd Mead, March 1, 1987), cover price $2.98 | also contains Optimum Brain Power: A Total Program for Increasing Your Intelligence | About this edition: New, never been open for read.
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia. In 1918, the murder of a white farmer led to a week of mob violence that claimed the lives of at least eleven African Americans, including Hayes Turner. When his wife Mary vowed to press charges against the killers, she too fell victim to the mob.Maryâs lynching was particularly brutal and involved the grisly death of her eight-month-old fetus. It led to both an entrenched local silence and a widespread national response in newspaper and magazine accounts, visual art, film, literature, and public memorials. Turnerâs story became a centerpiece of the Anti-Lynching Crusaders campaign for the 1922 Dyer Bill, which sought to make lynching a federal crime. Julie Buckner Armstrong explores the complex and contradictory ways this horrific event was remembered in works such as Walter Whiteâs report in the NAACPâs newspaper the Crisis, the âKabnisâ section of Jean Toomerâs Cane, Angelina Weld Grimkéâs short story âGoldie,â and Meta Fullerâs sculpture Mary Turner: A Silent Protest against Mob Violence.Like those of Emmett Till and Leo Frank, Turnerâs story continues to resonate on multiple levels. Armstrongâs work provides insight into the different roles black women played in the history of lynching: as victims, as loved ones left behind, and as those who fought back. The crime continues to defy conventional forms of representation, illustrating what can, and cannot, be said about lynching and revealing the difficulty and necessity of confronting this nationâs legacy of racial violence.
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9780820337654 | Univ of Georgia Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant woman near Valdosta, Georgia.
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9780820337661 | Univ of Georgia Pr, August 1, 2011, cover price $29.95
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9780415932561 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $160.00
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9780415932578 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $34.95
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