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College Language Association 2024

CLA 2024 book collage

Welcome to our 2024 College Language Association conference page! Use code CLA2024 at checkout to receive 30% off any of our Literature and African American Studies titles! Plus, get free US shipping with a $60 minimum purchase. Discount valid through April 30, 2024.

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The Summer of 2020

The Summer of 2020

By Andre E. Johnson & Amanda Nell Edgar
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests broke out in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States. National unrest led to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement ...

Black Hibiscus

Black Hibiscus

Edited by John Wharton Lowe
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Simone A. James Alexander, José Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe, ...

See Justice Done

See Justice Done

By Christopher Michael Brown
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing ...

Tending to the Past

Tending to the Past

By Karen Michele Chandler
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families ...

Intersecting Aesthetics

Intersecting Aesthetics

Edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith

Intersecting Aesthetics: ...

Activism in the Name of God

Activism in the Name of God

Edited by Jami L. Carlacio
Categories: African American Studies
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Contributions by Janet Allured, Lisa Pertillar Brevard, Jami L. Carlacio, Cheryl J. Fish, Angela Hornsby-Gutting, Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Neely McLaughlin, Darcy Metcalfe, Phillip Luke Sinitiere, P. ...

Matria Redux

Matria Redux

By Tegan Zimmerman
Categories: Caribbean Studies
Series: Caribbean Studies Series

In Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past, author Tegan Zimmerman contends that there is a need for reading Caribbean women’s texts relationally. This comprehensive study argues that the writer’s ...

Season to Taste

Season to Taste

By Caroline J. Smith
Categories: Cooking And Foodways
Series: Ingrid G. Houck Series in Food and Foodways

2024 Honorable Mention Recipient for the Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work by One or More Authors from the Popular Culture Association

Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women ...

African American Adolescent Female Heroes

African American Adolescent Female Heroes

By Melanie A. Marotta
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

In the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the publishing industry. The need for more diverse, representative young adult ...

Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.

Conversations with Jerry W. Ward Jr.

Edited by John Zheng
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Jerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected scholar with a specialty in African American literature ...