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9780826220059 | Univ of Missouri Pr, March 4, 2014, cover price $45.00

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9780826220936 | Reprint edition (Univ of Missouri Pr, July 30, 2016), cover price $34.95 | also contains Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Crisis, and American History

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9780252040122 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 15, 2016, cover price $95.00

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9780252081613 | Univ of Illinois Pr, May 15, 2016, cover price $28.00

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Product Description: The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power...read more

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9781611686128 | Dartmouth College, November 4, 2014, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power.

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9781611686135 | Dartmouth College, November 4, 2014, cover price $40.00

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By John H. Bracey, Jr. (editor), Sonia Sanchez (editor) and James Smethurst (editor)

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9781625340313 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 25, 2014, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans...read more

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9780807833124 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, December 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans.
9780323009805, titled "Dimensional Analysis" | Mosby Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $36.00 | also contains Dimensional Analysis

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9781469619064 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration--unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc--refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans.

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Product Description: This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history. The aesthetic counterpart of the Black Power movement, it burst onto the scene in the form of artists' circles, writers' workshops, drama groups, dance troupes, new publishing ventures, bookstores, and cultural centers and had a presence in practically every community and college campus with an appreciable African American population...read more
By James Smethurst (editor)

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9781625340306 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, September 25, 2014, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together a broad range of key writings from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, among the most significant cultural movements in American history.

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Product Description: The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement’s authors...read more

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9780472117338 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 26, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries.

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9780472035687 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 29, 2013, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movement’s poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement’s authors.

Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly best-selling authors Willard Motley and Frank Yerby.John C. Charles argues that these fictions have been overlooked because they deviate from two critical suppositions: that black literature is always about black life and that when it represents whiteness, it must attack white supremacy. The authors are, however, quite sympathetic in the treatment of their white protagonists, which Charles contends should be read not as a failure of racial pride but instead as a strategy for claiming creative freedom, expansive moral authority, and critical agency.In an era when “Negro writers” were expected to protest, their sympathetic treatment of white suffering grants these authors a degree of racial privacy previously unavailable to them. White writers, after all, have the privilege of racial privacy because they are never pressured to write only about white life. Charles reveals that the freedom to abandon the “Negro problem” encouraged these authors to explore a range of new genres and themes, generating a strikingly diverse body of novels that significantly revise our understanding of mid-twentieth-century black writing.

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9780813554334 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 15, 2012, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans.

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9780813554327 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 15, 2012, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century. Borrowing its title from a W...read more

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9780817317669 | Univ of Alabama Pr, June 19, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Hearing the Hurt is an examination of how the New Negro movement, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, provoked and sustained public discourse and deliberation about black culture and identity in the early twentieth century.

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Product Description: In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice. Jay Garcia’s probing look at how and why these critiques arose and the changes they wrought demonstrates the central role Richard Wright and his contemporaries played in devising modern antiracist cultural analysis...read more

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9781421405193 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 4, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice.

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Product Description: With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance...read more
By Henry Louis Gates (foreword by) and Charles Molesworth (editor)

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9780199795048 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 10, 2012, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.

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Product Description: In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational...read more

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9780822350910 | Duke Univ Pr, October 21, 2011, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship.

Paperback:

9780822351054 | Duke Univ Pr, October 21, 2011, cover price $23.95

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By Amritjit Singh (foreword by)

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9780813550435 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 2, 2011, cover price $75.00

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9780813550442 | Rutgers Univ Pr, September 27, 2011, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells previously in print...read more
By Malin Pereira (editor)

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9780820331072 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2010, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.

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Product Description: In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s. A memoir of self-discovery, it also offers an affectionate tribute to the inimitable Langston Hughes, who entered Marshall's life during a crucial phase and introduced her to the world of European letters during a whirlwind tour of the continent...read more

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9780465013593 | Basic Civitas Books, March 2, 2009, cover price $23.00

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9780465019229 | Basic Civitas Books, January 26, 2010, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young writer in the 1960s.

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Hardcover:

9780822329763 | Duke Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $94.95

Paperback:

9780822329909 | Duke Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $25.95

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