Faulkner, Welty, Wright

Edited by Annette Trefzer, Jay Watson, and James G. Thomas Jr.
Categories: Literature
Series: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series

Contributions by Anita DeRouen, Susan V. Donaldson, Julia Eichelberger, W. Ralph Eubanks, Sarah Ford, Bernard Joy, John Wharton Lowe, Anne MacMaster, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, Kevin ...

Maverick Feminist

By Kemeshia Randle Swanson
Categories: Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies

Beginning with their forced introduction to American soil, Black women have relied on maverick-like characteristics to survive. And yet, these liberating characteristics have been repeatedly disparaged ...

Black Hibiscus

Edited by John Wharton Lowe
Categories: African American Studies

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

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Memories of Africa

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

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 in the United States. The book shows how ...

Rethinking Racial Uplift

By Nigel I. Malcolm
Categories: African American Studies

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 could provide the race with the guidance ...

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 ...