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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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Memories of Africa

Memories of Africa

By Toyin Falola
Categories: Literature
Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States suggests a new lens for viewing African Diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live ...

The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner

Edited by Andre E. Johnson
Categories: History
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Henry McNeal Turner (1834–1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of America’s earliest Black activists and social reformers, and an outspoken proponent of emigration. In ...

At Risk

At Risk

By Jennifer Griffiths
Categories: Literature
Series: Cultures of Childhood

Jennifer Griffiths's At Risk: Black Youth and the Creative Imperative in the Post–Civil Rights Era focuses on literary representations of adolescent artists as they develop strategies to intervene against ...

Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson

Edited by Isiah Lavender III
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science ...

Rethinking Racial Uplift

Rethinking Racial Uplift

By Nigel I. Malcolm
Categories: African American Studies

2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote about the Talented Tenth in an influential essay of the same name. The concept exalted college-educated Blacks who Du Bois believed ...

Literacy in a Long Blues Note

Literacy in a Long Blues Note

By Coretta M. Pittman
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A ...

A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

Edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings & Jonda C. McNair
Foreword by Rudine Sims Bishop
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor Watts

The Brownies’ Book occupies ...

Start a Riot!

Start a Riot!

By Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural ...

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

Edited by Maia L. Butler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, and Megan Feifer
Foreword by Nadège T. Clitandre
Afterword by Thadious M. Davis
Categories: Diaspora Studies

Contributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan ...

The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

By Kenton Rambsy
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American ...