Race Relations in Art and Culture General
Visual Arts
Music and the Performing Arts
Literature
Film and Television
Race Relations in Art and Culture: GeneralLiving Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, editor ISBN-13: 9780807083833 (paper) Beacon Press, 2005 S
Imagining the African American West Blake Allmendinger ISBN-13: 9780803210677 (cloth) University of Nebraska Press, 2005 S
African Intellectual Heritage: A Book of Sources Molefi Kete Asante, Abu S. Abarry, editors ISBN-10: 1566394023 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1566394031 (paper) Temple University Press, 1995 S
The Afrocentric Idea Molefi Kete Asante ISBN-10: 156639595X (paper) Temple University Press, 1997 S
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. Houston A. Baker  ISBN-10: 0822326868 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822326957 (paper) Duke University Press, 2001 G
Notes of a Native Son James Baldwin ISBN-13: 9780807064313 (paper) Beacon Press, 1983 G
Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio William Barlow ISBN-10: 1566396662 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1566396670 (paper) Temple University Press, 1998 G
Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream Don Belton ISBN-13: 9780807009376 (paper) Beacon Press, 1996 S
Recovering the Black Female Body: Self-Representations by African American Women Michael Bennett, Vanessa D. Dickerson, editors ISBN-10: 0813528380 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813528399 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 2000 S
Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown ISBN-10: 0826211992 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 1999 S
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century Sara Blair ISBN-13: 9780691130873 (cloth) Princeton University Press, October 2007 S
With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture Lisa Bloom ISBN-10: 0816632235 (paper) University of Minnesota Press, 1999
Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp Joe Dan Boyd ISBN-10: 0817315101 (cloth) University of Alabama Press, 2005 G
Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement Sheila Tully Boyle, Andrew Bunie ISBN-10: 1558495053 (paper) University of Massachusetts Press, 2005 G
Wrestlin' Jacob: A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country Erskine Clarke ISBN-10: 0817310401 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1999 S
Tribal Talk: Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of "Telling the Story" Will Coleman ISBN-10: 0271019441 (cloth) ISBN-10: 027101945X (paper) Penn State University Press, 1999 S
Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998 James H. Cone ISBN-13: 9780807009512 (paper) Beacon Press, 1998 S
Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition Kimberly Rae Connor ISBN-10: 025202530X (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2000 S
Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars Joel Dinerstein  ISBN-10: 1558493735 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1558493832 (paper) University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 G
The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption Quinton Hosford Dixie ISBN-13: 9780807009536 (paper) Beacon Press, 1999 G
The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon Melvin Patrick Ely ISBN-10: 0813920922 (paper) University of Virginia Press, 2001 G
Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance Genevičve Fabre, Michel Feith, editors ISBN-10: 0253328861 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0253214254 (paper) Indiana University Press, 2001 S
Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 Philip S. Foner, Robert Branham ISBN-10: 0817309063 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1997 S
Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History Janet Gabler-Hover ISBN-10: 0813121434 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 2000
PostNegritude Visual and Literary Culture Mark A. Goffman ISBN-10: 0791433021 (paper) SUNY Press, 1997 S
African American English: A Linguistic Introduction Lisa J. Green ISBN-10: 0521814499 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0521891388 (paper) Cambridge University Press, 2002
The Myth of the Negro Past Melville J. Herskovits ISBN-13: 9780807009055 (paper) Beacon Press, 1990 G
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity Sharon Patricia Holland ISBN-10: 082232475X (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822324997 (paper) Duke University Press, 2000 S
Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II Maureen Honey, editor ISBN-10: 0826212654 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 1999 G
A History of the African American People: The History, Traditions, and Culture of African Americans James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton, editors ISBN-10: 0814326978 (paper) Wayne State University Press, 1997 G
The Souls of Black Folk One Hundred Years Later Dolan Hubbard, editor ISBN-13: 9780826217332 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 2007 S
DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess James M. Hutchisson ISBN-10: 1578062500 (cloth) University Press of Mississippi, 2000
Scripting the Black Masculine Body: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media Ronald L. Jackson II  ISBN-10: 0791466264 (paper) SUNY Press, 2006 S
Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology William R. Jones ISBN-13: 9780807010334 (paper) Beacon Press, 1997 G
Black Studies as Human Studies: Critical Essays and Interviews Joyce A. Joyce  ISBN-10: 0791461629 (paper) SUNY Press, 2005 S
Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures Phillip L. Kilbride, Jane C. Goodale, and Elizabeth R. Ameisen, editors ISBN-10: 0817304711 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1990 S
C. L. R. James and Creolization: Circles of Influence Nicole King ISBN-10: 1578063647 (cloth) University Press of Mississippi, 2001
The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism Anne Meis Knupfer ISBN-10: 0252030478 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0252072936 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2005 S
Sista, Speak!: Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy Sonja L. Lanehart ISBN-13: 9780292747296 (paper) University of Texas Press, 2002 S
Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews Nathaniel Mackey ISBN-10: 0299204006 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0299204049 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 2004 S
Black Cowboys of Texas Sara R. Massey, editor ISBN-10: 0890969345 (cloth) ISBN-10: 158544443X (paper) Texas A&M University Press, 2000 G
What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations Eileen M. McMahon ISBN-13: 9780813108940 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 1995 S
Black Churches in Texas: A Guide to Historic Congregations Clyde McQueen ISBN-10: 0890969027 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0890969418 (paper) Texas A&M University Press, 2000 G
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s Sarah Meer ISBN-10: 0820327360 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0820327379 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780820327365 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780820327372 (paper) University of Georgia Press, 2005 S
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery Richard E. Meyers ISBN-10: 0879726008 (cloth) University of Wisconsin Press, 1993 S
The Birth of African American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective Sidney W. Mintz, Richard Price ISBN-13: 9780807009178 (paper) Beacon Press, 1992 G
Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White Michael Montgomery, Guy H. Bailey, editors ISBN-10: 0817311742 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2002 S
Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46 Bill V. Mullen ISBN-10: 0252024400 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0252067487 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 1999 S
Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora Joseph M. Murphy ISBN-13: 9780807012215 (paper) Beacon Press, 1993 S
Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief David Murray ISBN-13: 9780812239966 (cloth) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 S
The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro National Council of Negro Women ISBN-13: 9780807009659 (paper) Beacon Press, 2000 S
Hoecakes, Hambone, and All That Jazz: African American Traditions in Missouri Rose M. Nolen ISBN-10: 0826215017 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 2003 G
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual Robert Reid-Pharr ISBN-10: 0814775845 (paper) New York University Press, 2007 S
Here I Stand Paul Robeson ISBN-13: 9780807064450 (paper) Beacon Press, 1988 G
Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference E. San Juan, Jr. ISBN-10: 0822328518 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822328666 (paper) Duke University Press, 2002 S
Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies Lynn Moss Sanders ISBN-10: 082032549X (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780820325491 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 2003 S
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America Kirk Savage ISBN-13: 9780691009476 (paper) Princeton University Press, 1999 S
Perspectives of Black Popular Culture Harry B. Shaw ISBN-10: 0879725036 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0879725044 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 1990 G
Postcolonial Theory in the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Amritjit Singh, Peter Schmidt, editors ISBN-10: 1578062519 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1578062527 (paper) University Press of Mississippi, 2000
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s James Edward Smethurst ISBN-13: 9780807829349 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780807855980 (paper) University of North Carolina Press, 2005 S
Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots Min Hyoung Song  ISBN-13: 9780822335924 (paper) Duke University Press, 2005 S
Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography Robert B. Stepto ISBN-13: 9780807009451 (paper) Beacon Press, 1998 G
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture John Szwed ISBN-13: 9780812219722 (cloth) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 S
Meditations of the Heart Howard Thurman ISBN-13: 9780807010235 (paper) Beacon Press, 1953, 1981 G
Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture Patricia A. Turner ISBN-10: 0813921554 (paper) University of Virginia Press, 2002 G
Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture William L. Van Deburg  ISBN-10: 0299096343 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 1984
My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality Gloria Wade-Gayles ISBN-13: 9780807009239 (paper) Beacon Press, 1995 S
Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture Gayle Wald ISBN-10: 0822324792 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822325152 (paper) Duke University Press, 2000 S
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 Susannah Walker ISBN-13: 9780813124339 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 2007 S
Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995 Maurice O. Wallace ISBN-10: 0822328542 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822328690 (paper) Duke University Press, 2002 S
Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement S. Craig Watkins ISBN-13: 9780807009864 (paper) Beacon Press, 2005 G
Stories of Freedom in Black New York Shane White ISBN-10: 0674008936 (cloth) Harvard University Press, 2002 G
Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit Shane White, Graham White ISBN-10: 0801431794 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0801482836 (paper) Cornell University Press, 1998 G
Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson
Linda Williams ISBN-13: 9780691102832 (paper) Princeton University Press, 2002 S
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Race Relations in Art and Culture: Visual ArtsHale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and the Academy Amalia K. Amaki, Andrea D. Barnwell ISBN-10: 029598693X (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780295986937 (cloth) University of Washington Press, with Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, 2007 G
Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: An American Artist's Work Don Bacigalupi, Marilyn Kern-Foxworth ISBN-13: 9780941193122 (paper) University of Texas Press, 1997 S
African Americans in Art Andrea Barnwell, et al. ISBN-13: 9780300114799 (paper) Yale University Press, 2006 S
A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Americans Cuesta Benberry  ISBN-10: 1557286205 (cloth) University of Arkansas Press, 2000 G
Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt, editors ISBN-10: 026202540X (cloth) MIT Press, 2003 G
William Pope L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America Mark H.C. Bessire ISBN-13: 9780262025331 (cloth) MIT Press, 2002 G
William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America Mark H.C. Bessire ISBN-10: 0262025337 (cloth) MIT Press, 2002 G
Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 Mary Ann Calo ISBN-13: 9780472114689 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780472032303 (paper) University of Michigan Press, 2007 S
A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice Robert Cochran  ISBN-10: 1557287368 (cloth) University of Arkansas Press, 2003 G
Aaron Douglas: African-American Modernist Susan Earle ISBN-13: 9780300121803 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780300135923 (paper) Yale University Press, 2007 G
How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness Darby English ISBN-13: 9780262050838 (cloth) MIT Press, 2007 G
Born to Be Taylor Gordon ISBN-13: 9780803270527 (paper) University of Nebraska Press, 1995 G
The Arts at Black Mountain College Mary Emma Harris ISBN-13: 9780262582124 (cloth) MIT Press, 2002 S
Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation Michael D. Harris ISBN-10: 0807827606 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0807856967 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780807827604 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780807856963 (paper) University of North Carolina Press, 2003 G
Deep Blues: Bill Traylor, 1854-1949 Josef Helfenstein, Roman Kurzmeyer, editor ISBN-10: 0300081960 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0300081634 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780300081961 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780300081633 (paper) Yale University Press, 1999 G
Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People Melanie Anne Herzog ISBN-13: 9780300116120 (paper) Yale University Press, 2005 S
Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art Milly Heyd ISBN-10: 0813526175 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813526183 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 1999 G
Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art Grant Hill ISBN-13: 9780822333180 (paper) Duke University Press, 2004 G
Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art Vincent Katz, editor ISBN-13: 9780262112796 (cloth) MIT Press, 2003 G
The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 18211872 Joseph D. Ketner ISBN-10: 0826209742 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 1994 G
Weeping Mary O. Rufus Lovett ISBN-13: 9780292709324 (cloth) University of Texas Press, 2006 G
Equal Before the Lens: Jno. Trlica's Photographs of Granger, Texas Barbara McCandless ISBN-10: 0890964866 (cloth) Texas A&M University Press, 1992 G
Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art Audrey Thomas McCluskey, editor ISBN-13: 9780253217790 (paper) Indiana University Press, 2007 G
Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church Tyagan Miller, photographs, Yusef Komunyakaa, essay ISBN-13: 9780253348357 (cloth) Indiana University Press, 2007 G
The Complete Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence AND Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois ISBN-10: 0295979631 (cloth) University of Washington Press, 2000 G
Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000), A Catalogue Raisonne Peter T. Nesbett ISBN-10: 0295979550 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0295985593 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 2001 G
Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois, editors ISBN-10: 0295979658 (paper) University of Washington Press, 2001 G
A Choice of Weapons Gordon Parks ISBN-10: 0873512022 (paper) Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986 G
Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ISBN-10: 0295985712 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780295985718 (paper) University of Washington Press, 2006 S
The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts James Smalls ISBN-10: 1592133053 (cloth) Temple University Press, 2006 G
Harlem: The Vision of Morgan and Marvin Smith Morgan Smith, Marvin Smith, James A. Miller, editor ISBN-13: 9780813120294 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 1997 G
Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture Shawn Michelle Smith  ISBN-13: 9780822333432 (paper) Duke University Press, 2004 S
The Art of Ellis Wilson Albert Sperath, Margaret R. Vendryes, Steven H. Jones, Eva F. King ISBN-13: 9780813109800 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 2000 G
A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans William E. Taylor, Harriet G. Warkel ISBN-10: 0936260629 (paper) Indiana University Press, 1996 G
The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings John Michael Vlach ISBN-10: 0807826863 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0807853526 (paper) University of North Carolina Press, 2002 G
African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago Colin L. Westerbeck, Daniel Schulman, et al. ISBN-10: 0295978333 (paper) University of Washington Press, 1999 G
Jacob Lawrence, American Painter Ellen Harkins Wheat ISBN-10: 0295970111 (paper) University of Washington Press, 1986 G
Black Farmers in America: Photographs by John Francis Ficara Juan Williams ISBN-13: 9780813123998 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 2006 G
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Race Relations in Art and Culture: Music and the Performing ArtsOut of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff ISBN-10: 1578064996 (cloth) University Press of Mississippi, 2002
Bessie, Revised and expanded edition Chris Albertson ISBN-13: 9780300099027 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780300107562 (paper) Yale University Press, 2003 G
This is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture Iain Anderson ISBN-13: 9780812239805 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780812220032 (paper) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 G
My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography Marian Anderson ISBN-10: 0252070534 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2002 G
Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought Paul Allen Anderson ISBN-10: 0822325772 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822325918 (paper) Duke University Press, 2001 S
Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life Joyce Aschenbrenner ISBN-10: 0252027590 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2002 G
Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture William Barlow ISBN-10: 0877225834 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0877227225 (paper) Temple University Press, 1989 G
Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer Jack A. Batterson ISBN-10: 0826211984 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 1998 G
Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, Brooks McNamara, editors; Mel Watkins, foreword ISBN-10: 0819563005 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1996 G
Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz Joshua Berrett ISBN-13: 9780300103847 (cloth) Yale University Press, 2004 G
Race, Rock, and Elvis Michael T. Bertrand ISBN-10: 0252025865 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2000 G
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 Daphne Brooks  ISBN-13: 9780822337225 (paper) Duke University Press, 2006 S
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 Tim Brooks ISBN-10: 0252028503 (cloth) ISBN-10: 025207307X (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2006 G
Only the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor Jerry Butler, with Earl Smith ISBN-10: 0253337968 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0253217040 (paper) Indiana University Press, 2000 G
Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music Jeannie Cheatham ISBN-13: 9780292712935 (cloth) University of Texas Press, 2006 S
Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin Susan Curtis ISBN-10: 0826209491 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0826215475 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 2004 G
The First Black Actors on the Great White Way Susan Curtis ISBN-10: 0826213308 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young Douglas Henry Daniels ISBN-13: 9780807071250 (paper) Beacon Press, 2001 S
One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils Douglas Henry Daniels ISBN-13: 9780807071373 (paper) Beacon Press, 2006 S
Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance Thomas F. DeFrantz, editor  ISBN-10: 0299173143 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 2001
The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop Murray Forman ISBN-10: 081956396X (cloth) ISBN-10: 0819563978 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 2002 G
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues Stuart L. Goosman ISBN-13: 9780812238860 (cloth) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 S
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition Adam Gussow ISBN-10: 0226310973 (cloth) University of Chicago Press, 2002 G
An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold Robert Halli ISBN-10: 0817313060 (cloth) University of Alabama Press, 2004 G
Black Theater: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II, and Gus Edwards, editors ISBN-10: 1566399432 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1566399440 (paper) Temple University Press, 2002 G
Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company Paul Carter Harrison, Gus Edwards, editors ISBN-10: 0822955601 (paper) University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995 G
Jookin’: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture Katrina Hazzard-Gordon ISBN-10: 087722613X (cloth) ISBN-10: 0877229562 (paper) Temple University Press, 1990 G
From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935 Thomas J. Hennessey ISBN-10: 0814321798 (paper) Wayne State University Press, 1994 S
Encyclopedia of the Blues Gerard Herzhaft ISBN-10: 1557284520 (paper) University of Arkansas Press, 1997 G
A History of African American Theatre Errol G. Hill, James V. Hatch ISBN-10: 0521624436 (cloth) ISBN-10: 052162472X (paper) Cambridge University Press, 2003
Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, and Holly Maxson  ISBN-13: 9780826515742 [with CD] (cloth) Vanderbilt University Press, January 2008 G
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image Bennetta Jules-Rosette ISBN-10: 0252031571 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0252074122 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2007 G
Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey Allan Keiler ISBN-10: 0252070674 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2002 G
Rap Music and Street Consciousness Cheryl L. Keyes ISBN-10: 0252027612 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0252072014 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2002 G
Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker Lawrence Koch ISBN-10: 0879722592 (cloth) University of Wisconsin Press, 1988 G
You Can’t Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat Gene Lees ISBN-13: 9780300089653 (cloth) Yale University Press, 2001 G
You Can’t Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat Gene Lees ISBN-13: 9780803280342 (paper) University of Nebraska Press, 2004 G
Geography: Art / race / exile Ralph Lemon ISBN-10: 0819564435 (cloth) Wesleyan University Press, 2000 G
A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life in Music from Basie to Motown—and Beyond Preston Love, preface by Johnny Otis ISBN-10: 081956320X (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1997 G
Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture William J. Mahar ISBN-10: 0252066960 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 1999 S
Frankie Manning: Ambassador of the Lindy Hop Frankie Manning, Cynthia R. Millman ISBN-10: 1592135633 (cloth) Temple University Press, 2007 G
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Color: William Brown's African and American Theater Marvin McAllister ISBN-10: 0807827770 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0807854506 (paper) University of North Carolina Press, 2003 S
Swingin’ at the Savoy: The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer Norma Miller, Evette Jensen ISBN-10: 1566398495 (paper) Temple University Press, 2001 G
Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague Magnificent Montague, Bob Baker ISBN-10: 0252028732 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2003 S
The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography Babatunde Olatunji, with Robert Atkinson and Akinsola Akiwowo, foreword by Joan Baez, introduction by Eric Charry ISBN-10: 1592133533 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1592133541 (paper) Temple University Press, 2005 G
Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue Johnny Otis ISBN-10: 0819562874 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1993 G
The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture Jon Panish ISBN-10: 1578060354 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1578060338 (paper) University Press of Mississippi, 1997
Droppin’ Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture William Eric Perkins, editor ISBN-10: 1566393612 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1566393620 (paper) Temple University Press, 1995 G
Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism Russell A. Potter ISBN-10: 0791426262 (paper) SUNY Press, 1995 G
Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music Ronald Radano ISBN-10: 0226701972 (cloth) University of Chicago Press, 2003 S
Jazz Matters: Reflections on the Music & Some of Its Makers Doug Ramsey ISBN-10: 1557280606 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1557280614 (paper) University of Arkansas Press, 1989 G
If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition Bernice Johnson Reagon ISBN-10: 0803239130 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0803289839 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780803289833 (paper) University of Nebraska Press, 2001 S
The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music Teresa L. Reed ISBN-13: 9780813190921 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 2004 S
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America Tricia Rose ISBN-10: 0819552712 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0819562750 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1994 G
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting ISBN-10: 0814740146 (cloth) New York University Press, 2007 G
Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music Christopher Small ISBN-10: 0819563579 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1998 G
Dancing in the Streets: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit Suzanne E. Smith ISBN-10: 0674000633 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0674005465 (paper) Harvard University Press, 2000 G
Best Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting Chuck Smith, editor ISBN-13: 9780810123908 (paper) Northwestern University Press, October 2007 G
Seven Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting Chuck Smith, editor ISBN-13: 9780810120457 (paper) Northwestern University Press, 2004 G
The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on Black-Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora Louis Chude Sokei  ISBN-13: 9780822336433 (paper) Duke University Press, 2005 S
Jazz in American Culture Peter Townsend ISBN-10: 157806323X (cloth) ISBN-10: 1578063248 (paper) University Press of Mississippi, 2001
Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon Michael E. Veal ISBN-10: 1566397642 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1566397650 (paper) Temple University Press, 2000 G
Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe Gayle F. Wald ISBN-13: 9780807009840 (cloth) Beacon Press, 2007 S
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Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Folklore Study, 1941-1942 John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel Adams; edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov  ISBN-13: 9780826514851 (cloth) Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 G
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Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans Jeffrey A. Brown ISBN-10: 1578062810 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1578062829 (paper) University Press of Mississippi, 2000
The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. ISBN-10: 0813920663 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813920671 (paper) University of Virginia Press, 2001 G
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Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson Keith Clark ISBN-10: 0252027272 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0252071956 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2002 S
Contemporary Black Men’s Fiction and Drama Keith Clark, editor ISBN-10: 0252026764 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2001 S
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Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban James W. Coleman ISBN-10: 081312204X (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780813122045 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 2001 S
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We Fish: The Journey to Fatherhood Jack L. Daniel, Omari C. Daniel ISBN-10: 0822941988 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822958910 (paper) University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003 G
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race Jim Daniels, editor ISBN-10: 0814325424 (paper) Wayne State University Press, 1996 G
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Nationalism, Marxism and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box Anthony Dawahare ISBN-10: 1578065070 (cloth) University Press of Mississippi, 2002
Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830–1865 Deborah C. De Rosa  ISBN-10: 0791458261 (paper) SUNY Press, 2003 S
The Least One Borden Deal, Introduction by Sara deSaussure Davis ISBN-10: 0817306730 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1992 S
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African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel Darryl Dickson-Carr ISBN-10: 0826213251 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 S
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Erasure Percival Everett ISBN-10: 1584650907 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0786888156 (paper) University Press of New England, 2001 G
Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel M. Giulia Fabi ISBN-10: 0252026675 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2001 S
The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright Michel Fabre ISBN-10: 0252062647 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 1993 S
The Days of Rondo Evelyn Fairbanks ISBN-10: 0873512561 (paper) Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990 G
The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance Jeffrey B. Ferguson ISBN-13: 9780300109016 (cloth) Yale University Press, 2005 S
Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness Peter Edgerly Firchow ISBN-13: 9780813121284 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 1999 S
Nobody's Boy Jennifer Fleischner ISBN-13: 9781883982584 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 2006 G
Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity Karen Jackson Ford ISBN-10: 0817314563 (cloth) University of Alabama Press, 2005 S
Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro Alan Warren Friedman ISBN-13: 9780813121291 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 2000 S
The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place Mindy Thompson Fullilove ISBN-13: 9780803269064 (paper) University of Nebraska Press, 1999 G
Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery DoVeanna S. Fulton  ISBN-10: 0791466388 (paper) SUNY Press, 2006 S
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gene Andrew Jarrett, editors ISBN-13: 9780691126517 (cloth) Princeton University Press, November 2007 S
The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood Paul Gilmore ISBN-10: 0822327546 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822327643 (paper) Duke University Press, 2001 S
Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature Ethan Goffman ISBN-10: 0791446778 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0791446786 (paper) SUNY Press, 2000 G
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature Jacqueline Goldsby ISBN-10: 0226301370 (cloth) University of Chicago Press, 2006 S
Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity Nathan Grant ISBN-10: 0826215165 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2004 S
The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 Linda M. Grasso ISBN-10: 0807826820 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0807853488 (paper) University of North Carolina Press, 2002 S
The Spook Who Sat by the Door Sam Greenlee ISBN-10: 0814322468 (paper) Wayne State University Press, 1989 G
Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa John Cullen Gruesser ISBN-10: 0813121639 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780813121635 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 2000 S
Not So Simple: The "Simple Stories" by Langston Hughes Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper ISBN-10: 0826210880 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 1996 S
South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature Trudier Harris-Lopez ISBN-10: 0820324337 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 2002
The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond Leonard Harris, editor ISBN-10: 0877225842 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0877228299 (paper) Temple University Press, 1988 S
Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature Carol E. Henderson ISBN-10: 0826214215 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 S
Jule George Wylie Henderson, Introduction by J. Lee Greene ISBN-10: 081730438X (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1989 G
Ollie Miss George Wylie Henderson ISBN-10: 081730388X (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1987 G
Almost Family Roy Hoffman ISBN-10: 0817310312 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2000 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 02: The Poems: 1941-1950 Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad ISBN-10: 0826213405 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 03: The Poems: 1951-1967 Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad ISBN-10: 0826213413 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 04: The Novels: "Not without Laughter" and "Tambourines to Glory" Langston Hughes, edited by Dolan Hubbard ISBN-10: 0826213421 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 05: The Plays to 1942, "Mulatto" to "The Sun Do Move" Langston Hughes, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, with Nancy Johnston ISBN-10: 0826213693 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 06: Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works Langston Hughes, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders ISBN-10: 0826214770 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2004 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 07: The Early Simple Stories Langston Hughes, edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper ISBN-10: 0826213707 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 08: The Later Simple Stories Langston Hughes, edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper ISBN-10: 0826214096 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 09: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis ISBN-10: 0826213944 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 1: The Poems: 1921-1940 Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad ISBN-10: 0826213391 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 10: "Fight for Freedom" and Other Writings on Civil Rights Langston Hughes, edited by Christopher C. De Santis ISBN-10: 0826213715 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 11: Works for Children and Young Adults: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Writing Langston Hughes, edited by Dianne Johnson ISBN-10: 0826214983 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2003 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 12: Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies Langston Hughes, edited by Steven C. Tracy ISBN-10: 0826213723 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2001 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 13: Autobiography: "The Big Sea" Langston Hughes, edited by Joseph McLaren ISBN-10: 082621410X (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography: "I Wonder As I Wander" Langston Hughes, edited by Joseph McLaren ISBN-10: 0826214347 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2003 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 15: The Short Stories Langston Hughes, edited by R. Baxter Miller ISBN-10: 0826214118 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 16: The Translations: Federico García Lorca, Nicolás Guillén, and Jacques Roumain Langston Hughes, edited by Dellita Martin-Ogunsola ISBN-10: 0826214355 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2003 G
Mud on the Stars William Bradford Huie, Introduction by Donald R. Noble ISBN-10: 0817308725 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1996 S
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston ISBN-10: 0252017781 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 1991 G
The Law of the White Circle: A Novel Thornwell Jacobs ISBN-10: 0820328804 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780820328805 (paper) University of Georgia Press, 2006 S
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings Joy James, editor  ISBN-10: 0791464865 (paper) SUNY Press, 2005 G
Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature Gene Andrew Jarrett ISBN-13: 9780812239737 (cloth) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 S
Yo’ Mama! New Raps, Toasts, Dozens, Jokes and Children’s Rhymes from Urban Black America Onwuchekwa Jemie, editor ISBN-10: 1592130283 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1592130290 (paper) Temple University Press, 2003 G
Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe Joy Jordan-Lake ISBN-13: 9780826514752 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780826514769 (paper) Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 G
Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative
Samira Kawash
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A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks George Kent ISBN-13: 9780813108278 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 1990 G
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
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Crossing Blood Nanci Kincaid ISBN-10: 0817310096 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1999 G
Diversity and Detective Fiction Kathleen Gregory Klein, editor ISBN-10: 0879727950 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0879727969 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 1999 S
The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness Stephen P. Knadler ISBN-10: 1578065062 (cloth) University Press of Mississippi, 2002
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa ISBN-10: 0819564257 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0819567396 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 2001 G
Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects SanSan Kwan, Kenneth Speirs, editors ISBN-13: 9780292705852 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780292743458 (paper) University of Texas Press, 2004 G
Ten is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman Geta LeSeur ISBN-10: 0826210112 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 1995 S
The Avenue, Clayton City C. Eric Lincoln ISBN-10: 0822317451 (paper) Duke University Press, 1996 G
Charles Johnson's Spiritual Imagination Jonathan Little ISBN-10: 082621147X (cloth) ISBN-10: 0826211518 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 1997 S
Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and the Apotropaic Imagination Kathleen Marks ISBN-10: 0826214371 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 S
The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher John McCluskey, Jr., editor ISBN-10: 0826207863 (paper) University of Missouri Press, 1991 S
Queen of the Ebony Isles Colleen J. McElroy ISBN-10: 0819561010 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1984 G
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Elizabeth McHenry ISBN-10: 0822329808 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0822329956 (paper) Duke University Press, 2002 G
Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison Patricia McKee ISBN-10: 082232329X (cloth) ISBN-10: 082232363X (paper) Duke University Press, 1999 S
Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race Dean McWilliams ISBN-10: 0820324353 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 2002
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in theWork of Zora Neale Hurston Susan Meisenhelder ISBN-10: 0817311319 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2001 S
Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice D.H. Melhem ISBN-13: 9780813101804 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 1988 S
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews D.H. Melhem ISBN-13: 9780813108070 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 1990 S
Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh ISBN-10: 0817311300 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2001 S
The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer Oscar Micheaux ISBN-13: 9780803282094 (paper) University of Nebraska Press, 1994 S
The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes R. Baxter Miller ISBN-13: 9780813191522 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 2006 S
Black American Literature and Humanism R. Baxter Miller ISBN-13: 9780813114361 (cloth) University Press of Kentucky, 1981 S
Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen D. Quentin Miller, editor ISBN-10: 1566397367 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1566397375 (paper) Temple University Press, 1999 S
Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech Lisa Cohen Minnick ISBN-10: 0817313990 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0817354239 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2000 S
This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance Verner D. Mitchell ISBN-13: 9781558495722 (paper) University of Massachusetts Press, 2006 G
Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction Sharon Monteith ISBN-10: 0820322490 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 2001
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man Lucas E. Morel ISBN-13: 9780813123127 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780813191621 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 2004 S
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture JoAnn Morgan ISBN-13: 9780826217158 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2007 S
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature Jeffrey Myers ISBN-10: 0820327441 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780820327440 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 2005 S
Charles Johnson’s Fiction William R. Nash ISBN-10: 0252027736 (cloth) University of Illinois Press, 2002 S
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Lauri Ramey, editors ISBN-10: 0817314962 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0817352791 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2006 S
Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation Aldon Lynn Nielsen ISBN-10: 0817314334 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0817351396 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 2004 S
Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Tiffany Ruby Patterson ISBN-10: 1592132898 (cloth) ISBN-10: 1592132901 (paper) Temple University Press, 2005 G
Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction Venetria K. Patton ISBN-10: 0791443442 (paper) SUNY Press, 2000 S
Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women Kathy A. Perkins, Judith L. Stephens, editors ISBN-10: 0253333563 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0253211638 (paper) Indiana University Press, 1998 G
Race Passing and American Individualism Kathleen Pfeiffer ISBN-10: 1558493778 (cloth) University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 S
The Collected Work of Langston Hughes: Volumes 1-16 Editors Arnold Rampersad, et al. University of Missouri Press, 2001-2003
Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature Patrice D. Rankine ISBN-13: 9780299220006 (cloth) University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 S
Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel Lawrence R. Rodgers ISBN-10: 0252023048 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0252066057 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 1997 S
Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ISBN-10: 0807826014 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0807849170 (paper) University of North Carolina Press, 2001 S
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965-1995) Marta E. Sánchez ISBN-13: 9780292706934 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780292709652 (paper) University of Texas Press, 2005 S
Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes Jonathan Scott ISBN-13: 9780826216779 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2007 S
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels Ryan Simmons, Lauri Ramey, editors ISBN-10: 0817315209 (cloth) University of Alabama Press, 2006 S
Two Guns From Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes Robert E. Skinner ISBN-10: 0879724536 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0879724544 (paper) University of Wisconsin Press, 1989 S
Five Plays by Langston Hughes Webster Smalley, editor ISBN-10: 0253322308 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0253201217 (paper) Indiana University Press, 1963 G
American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance Felipe Smith ISBN-10: 0820319333 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 1998
Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 Carolyn Sorisio ISBN-10: 0820323578 (cloth) University of Georgia Press, 2002
Gulf Stream Marie Stanley ISBN-10: 0817306951 (paper) University of Alabama Press, 1993 G
Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980 Erlene Stetson, editor, introduction by ISBN-10: 025320268X (paper) Indiana University Press, 1981 G
Uncle Tom's Cabin: 150th Anniversary Edition Harriet Beecher Stowe, introduction by Charles Johnson ISBN-10: 0195158164 (cloth) Oxford University Press, 2002 G
Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History Rodger Streitmatter ISBN-13: 9780813108308 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 1994 S
Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes John Edgar Tidwell, Cheryl R. Ragar, editors  ISBN-13: 9780826217165 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2007 S
Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels Theresa M. Towner ISBN-10: 1578062497 (cloth) University Press of Mississippi, 2000
A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference Jeffrey Allen Tucker ISBN-10: 0819566888 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0819566896 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 2004 G
Black Swan Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon ISBN-10: 0822957876 (paper) University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002 G
Nigger Heaven Carl Van Vechten, Kathleen Pfeiffer, introduction ISBN-10: 0252068602 (paper) University of Illinois Press, 2000 G
Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York Frank X Walker ISBN-13: 9780813190884 (paper) University Press of Kentucky, 2003 G
Women of the Harlem Renaissance Cheryl A. Wall ISBN-10: 0253209803 (paper) Indiana University Press, 1995 S
Hunger Overcome: Food and Resistance in Twentieth-Century African American Literature Andrew Warnes ISBN-10: 0820325295 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0820325627 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780820325293 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780820325620 (paper) University of Georgia Press, 2003 S
Not Without Love: Memoirs Constance Webb ISBN-10: 1584653019 (cloth) University Press of New England/Dartmouth College Press, 2003 G
Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950 Dorothy West, author, Verner D. Mitchell and Cynthia Davis, editors ISBN-10: 1558494715 (cloth) University of Massachusetts Press, 2004 G
Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement: An Anthology Margaret Earley Whitt, editor ISBN-10: 0820327999 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0820328510 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780820327990 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780820328515 (paper) University of Georgia Press, 2006 G
The Homewood Books John Edgar Wideman ISBN-10: 0822938316 (cloth) University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992 G
Tuneful Tales Bernice Love Wiggins, Edited by Maceo C. Dailey Jr. and Ruthe Winegarten ISBN-10: 0896724859 (paper) Texas Tech University Press, 2002 S
August Wilson: Three Plays August Wilson ISBN-10: 0822936666 (cloth) University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991 G
Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies Henry B. Wonham, editors ISBN-10: 0813522625 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813522633 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 1996 S
To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance Jon Woodson ISBN-10: 157806130X (cloth) ISBN-10: 1578061318 (paper) University Press of Mississippi, 1999
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Race Relations in Art and Culture: Film and TelevisionStar Trek and History: Race-ing toward a White Future Daniel Bernardi ISBN-10: 0813524652 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813524660 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 1998 S
The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema Daniel Bernardi, editor ISBN-10: 0813522757 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813522765 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 1996 S
Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness Daniel Bernardi, editor ISBN-10: 0816632391 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780816632398 (paper) University of Minnesota Press, 2001 G
The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing Carroll Parrott Blue  ISBN-10: 0292709137 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780292709133 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780292705395 (paper) University of Texas Press, 2003 G
Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines, Charles Musser, editors and curators ISBN-10: 0253339944 (cloth) Indiana University Press, 2001 G
Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin', and Slam Dunking: A Reader in African American Expressive Culture Gena Dagel Caponi, editor ISBN-10: 1558491821 (cloth) ISBN-10: 155849183X (paper) University of Massachusetts Press, 1999 G
Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision Natalie Zemon Davis ISBN-10: 0674004442 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0674008219 (paper) Harvard University Press, 2000 G
Black Directors in Hollywood Melvin Donalson ISBN-13: 9780292701793 (paper) University of Texas Press, 2003 G
The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America Robert M. Entman, Andrew Rojecki ISBN-10: 0226210766 (paper) University of Chicago Press, 2001 G
Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race during the Civil Rights Struggle Allison Graham ISBN-10: 0801866154 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0801874459 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780801866159 (cloth) ISBN-13: 9780801874451 (paper) Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 S
Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for “Blackness” Herman Gray ISBN-10: 0816645108 (paper) ISBN-13: 9780816645107 (paper) University of Minnesota Press, 1995
Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux J. Ronald Green ISBN-10: 0253337534 (cloth) Indiana University Press, 2000 G
*Planet of the Apes* as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture Eric Greene, Richard Slotkin, foreword ISBN-10: 0819563293 (paper) Wesleyan University Press, 1998 G
Guillaume: A Life Robert Guillaume , with David Ritz ISBN-10: 0826214266 (cloth) University of Missouri Press, 2002 G
Screenplays of the African American Experience Phyllis Rauch Klotman, editor ISBN-10: 0253206332 (paper) Indiana University Press, 1991 G
The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films Christopher P. Lehman ISBN-13: 9781558496132 (cloth) University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 S
Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film Paula J. Massood ISBN-10: 159213002X (cloth) ISBN-10: 1592130038 (paper) Temple University Press, 2002 G
Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980–2000 Maria Pramaggiore  ISBN-13: 9780791470954 (cloth) SUNY Press, 2007 S
Black Film/White Money Jesse Algeron Rhines ISBN-10: 0813522668 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813522676 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 1996 S
Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video Valerie Smith, editor ISBN-10: 0813523133 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0813523141 (paper) Rutgers University Press, 1997 S Return to Top |