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Race Relations in Art and Culture: General

Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak
Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, editor
ISBN-13: 9780807083833 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2005
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Imagining the African American West
Blake Allmendinger
ISBN-13: 9780803210677 (cloth)
University of Nebraska Press, 2005
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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
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The Afrocentric Idea
Molefi Kete Asante
ISBN-10: 156639595X (paper)
Temple University Press, 1997
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Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
Houston A. Baker author info
ISBN-10: 0822326868 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0822326957 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001
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Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
ISBN-13: 9780807064313 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1983
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Voice Over: The Making of Black Radio
William Barlow
ISBN-10: 1566396662 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566396670 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1998
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Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream
Don Belton
ISBN-13: 9780807009376 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1996
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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
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Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art
Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown
ISBN-10: 0826211992 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 1999
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Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century
Sara Blair
ISBN-13: 9780691130873 (cloth)
Princeton University Press, October 2007
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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
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Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement
Sheila Tully Boyle, Andrew Bunie
ISBN-10: 1558495053 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2005
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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
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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
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Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation, 1968-1998
James H. Cone
ISBN-13: 9780807009512 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1998
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Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition
Kimberly Rae Connor
ISBN-10: 025202530X (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2000
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Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
Joel Dinerstein author info
ISBN-10: 1558493735 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1558493832 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
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The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption
Quinton Hosford Dixie
ISBN-13: 9780807009536 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1999
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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
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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
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Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900
Philip S. Foner, Robert Branham
ISBN-10: 0817309063 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1997
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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
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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
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Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Sharon Patricia Holland
ISBN-10: 082232475X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0822324997 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2000
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Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II
Maureen Honey, editor
ISBN-10: 0826212654 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 1999
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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
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The Souls of Black Folk One Hundred Years Later
Dolan Hubbard, editor
ISBN-13: 9780826217332 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 2007
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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 author info
ISBN-10: 0791466264 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2006
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Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology
William R. Jones
ISBN-13: 9780807010334 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1997
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Black Studies as Human Studies: Critical Essays and Interviews
Joyce A. Joyce author info
ISBN-10: 0791461629 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2005
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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
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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
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Sista, Speak!: Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
Sonja L. Lanehart
ISBN-13: 9780292747296 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2002
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Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews
Nathaniel Mackey
ISBN-10: 0299204006 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0299204049 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
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Black Cowboys of Texas
Sara R. Massey, editor
ISBN-10: 0890969345 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 158544443X (paper)
Texas A&M University Press, 2000
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What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Community and Race Relations
Eileen M. McMahon
ISBN-13: 9780813108940 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1995
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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
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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
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Ethnicity and the American Cemetery
Richard E. Meyers
ISBN-10: 0879726008 (cloth)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
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The Birth of African American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
Sidney W. Mintz, Richard Price
ISBN-13: 9780807009178 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1992
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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
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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
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Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora
Joseph M. Murphy
ISBN-13: 9780807012215 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1993
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Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief
David Murray
ISBN-13: 9780812239966 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
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The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro
National Council of Negro Women
ISBN-13: 9780807009659 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2000
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Hoecakes, Hambone, and All That Jazz: African American Traditions in Missouri
Rose M. Nolen
ISBN-10: 0826215017 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 2003
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Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Robert Reid-Pharr
ISBN-10: 0814775845 (paper)
New York University Press, 2007
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Here I Stand
Paul Robeson
ISBN-13: 9780807064450 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1988
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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
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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
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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America
Kirk Savage
ISBN-13: 9780691009476 (paper)
Princeton University Press, 1999
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Perspectives of Black Popular Culture
Harry B. Shaw
ISBN-10: 0879725036 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0879725044 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990
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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
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Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Min Hyoung Song author info
ISBN-13: 9780822335924 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2005
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Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
Robert B. Stepto
ISBN-13: 9780807009451 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1998
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Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture
John Szwed
ISBN-13: 9780812219722 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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Meditations of the Heart
Howard Thurman
ISBN-13: 9780807010235 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1953, 1981
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Ceramic Uncles and Celluloid Mammies: Black Images and Their Influence on Culture
Patricia A. Turner
ISBN-10: 0813921554 (paper)
University of Virginia Press, 2002
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Slavery and Race in American Popular Culture
William L. Van Deburg author info
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
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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
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Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975
Susannah Walker
ISBN-13: 9780813124339 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2007
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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
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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
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York
Shane White
ISBN-10: 0674008936 (cloth)
Harvard University Press, 2002
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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
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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
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Race Relations in Art and Culture: Visual Arts

Hale 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
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Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997: An American Artist's Work
Don Bacigalupi, Marilyn Kern-Foxworth
ISBN-13: 9780941193122 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 1997
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African Americans in Art
Andrea Barnwell, et al.
ISBN-13: 9780300114799 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2006
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A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Americans
Cuesta Benberry author info
ISBN-10: 1557286205 (cloth)
University of Arkansas Press, 2000
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Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress
Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt, editors
ISBN-10: 026202540X (cloth)
MIT Press, 2003
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William Pope L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America
Mark H.C. Bessire
ISBN-13: 9780262025331 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2002
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William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America
Mark H.C. Bessire
ISBN-10: 0262025337 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2002
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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
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A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice
Robert Cochran author info
ISBN-10: 1557287368 (cloth)
University of Arkansas Press, 2003
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Aaron Douglas: African-American Modernist
Susan Earle
ISBN-13: 9780300121803 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780300135923 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2007
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How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
Darby English
ISBN-13: 9780262050838 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2007
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Born to Be
Taylor Gordon
ISBN-13: 9780803270527 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 1995
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The Arts at Black Mountain College
Mary Emma Harris
ISBN-13: 9780262582124 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2002
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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
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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
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Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People
Melanie Anne Herzog
ISBN-13: 9780300116120 (paper)
Yale University Press, 2005
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Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art
Milly Heyd
ISBN-10: 0813526175 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0813526183 (paper)
Rutgers University Press, 1999
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Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art
Grant Hill
ISBN-13: 9780822333180 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004
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Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art
Vincent Katz, editor
ISBN-13: 9780262112796 (cloth)
MIT Press, 2003
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The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 18211872
Joseph D. Ketner
ISBN-10: 0826209742 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 1994
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Weeping Mary
O. Rufus Lovett
ISBN-13: 9780292709324 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2006
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Equal Before the Lens: Jno. Trlica's Photographs of Granger, Texas
Barbara McCandless
ISBN-10: 0890964866 (cloth)
Texas A&M University Press, 1992
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Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art
Audrey Thomas McCluskey, editor
ISBN-13: 9780253217790 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2007
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Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church
Tyagan Miller, photographs, Yusef Komunyakaa, essay
ISBN-13: 9780253348357 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 2007
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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
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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
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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
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A Choice of Weapons
Gordon Parks
ISBN-10: 0873512022 (paper)
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986
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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
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The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts
James Smalls
ISBN-10: 1592133053 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 2006
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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
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Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture
Shawn Michelle Smith author info
ISBN-13: 9780822333432 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2004
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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
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A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans
William E. Taylor, Harriet G. Warkel
ISBN-10: 0936260629 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 1996
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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
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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
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Jacob Lawrence, American Painter
Ellen Harkins Wheat
ISBN-10: 0295970111 (paper)
University of Washington Press, 1986
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Black Farmers in America: Photographs by John Francis Ficara
Juan Williams
ISBN-13: 9780813123998 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2006
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Race Relations in Art and Culture: Music and the Performing Arts

Out 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
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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
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My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography
Marian Anderson
ISBN-10: 0252070534 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
Paul Allen Anderson
ISBN-10: 0822325772 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0822325918 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001
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Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life
Joyce Aschenbrenner
ISBN-10: 0252027590 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture
William Barlow
ISBN-10: 0877225834 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0877227225 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1989
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Blind Boone: Missouri's Ragtime Pioneer
Jack A. Batterson
ISBN-10: 0826211984 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 1998
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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
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Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz
Joshua Berrett
ISBN-13: 9780300103847 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2004
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Race, Rock, and Elvis
Michael T. Bertrand
ISBN-10: 0252025865 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2000
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Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Daphne Brooks author info
ISBN-13: 9780822337225 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2006
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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
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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
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Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On: My Life in Music
Jeannie Cheatham
ISBN-13: 9780292712935 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2006
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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
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The First Black Actors on the Great White Way
Susan Curtis
ISBN-10: 0826213308 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 2001
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Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester "Pres" Young
Douglas Henry Daniels
ISBN-13: 9780807071250 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2001
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One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils
Douglas Henry Daniels
ISBN-13: 9780807071373 (paper)
Beacon Press, 2006
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Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance
Thomas F. DeFrantz, editor author info
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
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Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues
Stuart L. Goosman
ISBN-13: 9780812238860 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
Adam Gussow
ISBN-10: 0226310973 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, 2002
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An Alabama Songbook: Ballads, Folksongs, and Spirituals Collected by Byron Arnold
Robert Halli
ISBN-10: 0817313060 (cloth)
University of Alabama Press, 2004
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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
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Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company
Paul Carter Harrison, Gus Edwards, editors
ISBN-10: 0822955601 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995
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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
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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
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Encyclopedia of the Blues
Gerard Herzhaft
ISBN-10: 1557284520 (paper)
University of Arkansas Press, 1997
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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 author info
ISBN-13: 9780826515742 [with CD] (cloth)
Vanderbilt University Press, January 2008
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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
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Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey
Allan Keiler
ISBN-10: 0252070674 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Rap Music and Street Consciousness
Cheryl L. Keyes
ISBN-10: 0252027612 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0252072014 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker
Lawrence Koch
ISBN-10: 0879722592 (cloth)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988
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You Can’t Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
Gene Lees
ISBN-13: 9780300089653 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2001
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You Can’t Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
Gene Lees
ISBN-13: 9780803280342 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 2004
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Geography: Art / race / exile
Ralph Lemon
ISBN-10: 0819564435 (cloth)
Wesleyan University Press, 2000
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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
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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
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Frankie Manning: Ambassador of the Lindy Hop
Frankie Manning, Cynthia R. Millman
ISBN-10: 1592135633 (cloth)
Temple University Press, 2007
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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
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Swingin’ at the Savoy: The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer
Norma Miller, Evette Jensen
ISBN-10: 1566398495 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2001
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Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague
Magnificent Montague, Bob Baker
ISBN-10: 0252028732 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2003
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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
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Upside Your Head! Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue
Johnny Otis
ISBN-10: 0819562874 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1993
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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
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Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism
Russell A. Potter
ISBN-10: 0791426262 (paper)
SUNY Press, 1995
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Lying up a Nation: Race and Black Music
Ronald Radano
ISBN-10: 0226701972 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, 2003
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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
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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
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The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music
Teresa L. Reed
ISBN-13: 9780813190921 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 2004
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Tricia Rose
ISBN-10: 0819552712 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0819562750 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1994
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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
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Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music
Christopher Small
ISBN-10: 0819563579 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1998
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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
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Best Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting
Chuck Smith, editor
ISBN-13: 9780810123908 (paper)
Northwestern University Press, October 2007
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Seven Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting
Chuck Smith, editor
ISBN-13: 9780810120457 (paper)
Northwestern University Press, 2004
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The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on Black-Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora
Louis Chude Sokei author info
ISBN-13: 9780822336433 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2005
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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
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Gayle F. Wald
ISBN-13: 9780807009840 (cloth)
Beacon Press, 2007
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How I Got Over: Clara Ward and the World-Famous Ward Singers
Willa Ward-Royster, as told by Toni Rose, foreword by Horace Clarence Boyer
ISBN-10: 1566394899 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566394902 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2000
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Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues
Roger Wood
ISBN-10: 0292791593 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292791596 (cloth)
University of Texas Press, 2003
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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 author info
ISBN-13: 9780826514851 (cloth)
Vanderbilt University Press, 2005
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Get a Shot of Rhythm and Blues: The Arthur Alexander Story
Richard Younger
ISBN-10: 0817310231 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 081731024X (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2000
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Race Relations in Art and Culture: Literature

Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
Lawrence Jackson
ISBN-10: 0820329932 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820329932 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2007
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To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel
Jeff Abernathy
ISBN-10: 0820324868 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0820325783 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820324869 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820325781 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2003
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Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery
Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Elbert, editor
ISBN-10: 1555533078 (paper)
University Press of New England/Northeastern University Press, 1997

To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865
William L. Andrews
ISBN-10: 0252060334 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1997
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Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time
Jonathan Arac author info
ISBN-10: 0299155307 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 029915534X (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997

Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt
Marvin V. Arnett
ISBN-10: 0803210647 (cloth)
University of Nebraska Press,

Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt
Marvin V. Arnett
ISBN-13: 9780803210646 (cloth)
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
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Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic
Houston A. Baker author info
ISBN-10: 0299115003 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0299115046 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988

We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems
Willis Barnstone
ISBN-13: 9780253219213 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 2007
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The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
Bernard W. Bell
ISBN-10: 1558494723 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1558494731 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2005
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To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing
Steven J. Belluscio
ISBN-10: 0826216196 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2006
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A Scholar’s Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding, 1942-1977
Faith Berry, editor
ISBN-13: 9780813108063 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1992
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Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000
Suzanne Bost
ISBN-10: 082032325X (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2003

Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
J. Brooks Bouson
ISBN-10: 0791444244 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780791444245 (paper)
SUNY Press, 1999
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Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition
Joanne M. Braxton
ISBN-10: 0877226393 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0877228035 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1989
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Mixed Race Literature
Jonathan Brennan, editor
ISBN-10: 0804736391 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0804736405 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2002
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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
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Seizing the Word: History, Art, and Self in the Work of W. E. B. Du Bois
Keith E. Byerman
ISBN-10: 0820316245 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 1994

I Call Myself an Artist: Writings By and About Charles Johnson
Rudolph P. Byrd, editor
ISBN-10: 0253335418 (cloth)
Indiana University Press, 1999
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Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic
Vincent Carretta, Philip Gould, editors
ISBN-13: 9780813122038 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2001
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Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century, Updated Edition
Vincent Carretta
ISBN-13: 9780813190761 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 2003
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Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
Keith Cartwright
ISBN-10: 0813122201 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0813190894 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780813190891 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 2004
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The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua
ISBN-10: 1578060605 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1578060613 (paper)
University Press of Mississippi, 1998

A Romance of the Republic
Lydia Maria Child, Dana D. Nelson, editor
ISBN-13: 9780813109282 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1997
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Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
Alice Childress
ISBN-13: 9780807009031 (paper)
Beacon Press, 1986
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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
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Contemporary Black Men’s Fiction and Drama
Keith Clark, editor
ISBN-10: 0252026764 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2001
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The Mystery of Mysteries: Cultural Differences and Designs
Samuel Coale
ISBN-10: 0879724978 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0879724986 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1990
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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
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Bridging the Americas: The Literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
Stelamaris Coser
ISBN-10: 1566392667 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566392675 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1994
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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
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Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race
Jim Daniels, editor
ISBN-10: 0814325424 (paper)
Wayne State University Press, 1996
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Livin' the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Frank Marshall Davis, Edited, with an Introduction by John Edgar Tidwell,
ISBN-10: 0299135004 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0299135047 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis
ISBN-13: 9780472099870 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780472069873 (paper)
University of Michigan Press, 2007
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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 author info
ISBN-10: 0791458261 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2003
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The Least One
Borden Deal, Introduction by Sara deSaussure Davis
ISBN-10: 0817306730 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1992
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Atlantis: Three Tales
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819563129 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1995
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Flight from Nevčr˙on
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819562777 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1994
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Neveryóna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities—Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819562718 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1993
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Return to Nevčr˙on
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819562785 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1994
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Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts & the Politics of the Paraliterary
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819563692 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 2000
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Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics—A Collection of Written Interviews
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 0819562807 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1994
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Tales of Nevčr˙on
Samuel R. Delany
ISBN-10: 081956270X (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1993
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African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel
Darryl Dickson-Carr
ISBN-10: 0826213251 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2001
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The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Thomas Dixon
ISBN-13: 9780813101262 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1970
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The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
Leigh Anne Duck
ISBN-10: 0820328103 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780820328102 (cloth)
University of Georgia Press, 2006
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Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith
Paula Gallant Eckard
ISBN-10: 0826214029 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2002
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Erasure
Percival Everett
ISBN-10: 1584650907 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0786888156 (paper)
University Press of New England, 2001
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel
M. Giulia Fabi
ISBN-10: 0252026675 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2001
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The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
Michel Fabre
ISBN-10: 0252062647 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1993
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The Days of Rondo
Evelyn Fairbanks
ISBN-10: 0873512561 (paper)
Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1990
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The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and the Harlem Renaissance
Jeffrey B. Ferguson
ISBN-13: 9780300109016 (cloth)
Yale University Press, 2005
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Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
Peter Edgerly Firchow
ISBN-13: 9780813121284 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 1999
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Nobody's Boy
Jennifer Fleischner
ISBN-13: 9781883982584 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 2006
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Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
Karen Jackson Ford
ISBN-10: 0817314563 (cloth)
University of Alabama Press, 2005
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Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro
Alan Warren Friedman
ISBN-13: 9780813121291 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 2000
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The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
ISBN-13: 9780803269064 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 1999
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Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery
DoVeanna S. Fulton author info
ISBN-10: 0791466388 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2006
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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
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The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
Paul Gilmore
ISBN-10: 0822327546 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0822327643 (paper)
Duke University Press, 2001
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Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature
Ethan Goffman
ISBN-10: 0791446778 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0791446786 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2000
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A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Jacqueline Goldsby
ISBN-10: 0226301370 (cloth)
University of Chicago Press, 2006
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Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity
Nathan Grant
ISBN-10: 0826215165 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2004
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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
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Sam Greenlee
ISBN-10: 0814322468 (paper)
Wayne State University Press, 1989
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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
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Not So Simple: The "Simple Stories" by Langston Hughes
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper
ISBN-10: 0826210880 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 1996
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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
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Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature
Carol E. Henderson
ISBN-10: 0826214215 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2002
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Jule
George Wylie Henderson, Introduction by J. Lee Greene
ISBN-10: 081730438X (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1989
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Ollie Miss
George Wylie Henderson
ISBN-10: 081730388X (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1987
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Almost Family
Roy Hoffman
ISBN-10: 0817310312 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mud on the Stars
William Bradford Huie, Introduction by Donald R. Noble
ISBN-10: 0817308725 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1996
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN-10: 0252017781 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 1991
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The Law of the White Circle: A Novel
Thornwell Jacobs
ISBN-10: 0820328804 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780820328805 (paper)
University of Georgia Press, 2006
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The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
Joy James, editor author info
ISBN-10: 0791464865 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2005
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Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature
Gene Andrew Jarrett
ISBN-13: 9780812239737 (cloth)
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
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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
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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
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Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative
Samira Kawash
ISBN-10: 0804727740 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0804727759 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 1997
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A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
George Kent
ISBN-13: 9780813108278 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1990
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Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
Daniel Kim
ISBN-10: 0804751080 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0804751099 (paper)
Stanford University Press, 2005
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Crossing Blood
Nanci Kincaid
ISBN-10: 0817310096 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 1999
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Diversity and Detective Fiction
Kathleen Gregory Klein, editor
ISBN-10: 0879727950 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0879727969 (paper)
University of Wisconsin Press, 1999
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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
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Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects
SanSan Kwan, Kenneth Speirs, editors
ISBN-13: 9780292705852 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292743458 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2004
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Ten is the Age of Darkness: The Black Bildungsroman
Geta LeSeur
ISBN-10: 0826210112 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 1995
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The Avenue, Clayton City
C. Eric Lincoln
ISBN-10: 0822317451 (paper)
Duke University Press, 1996
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Charles Johnson's Spiritual Imagination
Jonathan Little
ISBN-10: 082621147X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0826211518 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 1997
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Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and the Apotropaic Imagination
Kathleen Marks
ISBN-10: 0826214371 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2002
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The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher
John McCluskey, Jr., editor
ISBN-10: 0826207863 (paper)
University of Missouri Press, 1991
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Queen of the Ebony Isles
Colleen J. McElroy
ISBN-10: 0819561010 (paper)
Wesleyan University Press, 1984
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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
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Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison
Patricia McKee
ISBN-10: 082232329X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 082232363X (paper)
Duke University Press, 1999
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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
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice
D.H. Melhem
ISBN-13: 9780813101804 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1988
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Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews
D.H. Melhem
ISBN-13: 9780813108070 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1990
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Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream
Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh
ISBN-10: 0817311300 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2001
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The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer
Oscar Micheaux
ISBN-13: 9780803282094 (paper)
University of Nebraska Press, 1994
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The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes
R. Baxter Miller
ISBN-13: 9780813191522 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 2006
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Black American Literature and Humanism
R. Baxter Miller
ISBN-13: 9780813114361 (cloth)
University Press of Kentucky, 1981
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Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen
D. Quentin Miller, editor
ISBN-10: 1566397367 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1566397375 (paper)
Temple University Press, 1999
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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
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This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Verner D. Mitchell
ISBN-13: 9781558495722 (paper)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
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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
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Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture
JoAnn Morgan
ISBN-13: 9780826217158 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2007
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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
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Charles Johnson’s Fiction
William R. Nash
ISBN-10: 0252027736 (cloth)
University of Illinois Press, 2002
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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
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Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
ISBN-10: 0817314334 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0817351396 (paper)
University of Alabama Press, 2004
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Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life
Tiffany Ruby Patterson
ISBN-10: 1592132898 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592132901 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2005
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Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction
Venetria K. Patton
ISBN-10: 0791443442 (paper)
SUNY Press, 2000
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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
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Race Passing and American Individualism
Kathleen Pfeiffer
ISBN-10: 1558493778 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2003
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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
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Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel
Lawrence R. Rodgers
ISBN-10: 0252023048 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0252066057 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 1997
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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
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"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
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
Jonathan Scott
ISBN-13: 9780826216779 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2007
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Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels
Ryan Simmons, Lauri Ramey, editors
ISBN-10: 0817315209 (cloth)
University of Alabama Press, 2006
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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
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Five Plays by Langston Hughes
Webster Smalley, editor
ISBN-10: 0253322308 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0253201217 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 1963
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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
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Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980
Erlene Stetson, editor, introduction by
ISBN-10: 025320268X (paper)
Indiana University Press, 1981
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Uncle Tom's Cabin: 150th Anniversary Edition
Harriet Beecher Stowe, introduction by Charles Johnson
ISBN-10: 0195158164 (cloth)
Oxford University Press, 2002
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Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History
Rodger Streitmatter
ISBN-13: 9780813108308 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 1994
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Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes
John Edgar Tidwell, Cheryl R. Ragar, editors author info
ISBN-13: 9780826217165 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2007
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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
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Black Swan
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
ISBN-10: 0822957876 (paper)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002
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Nigger Heaven
Carl Van Vechten, Kathleen Pfeiffer, introduction
ISBN-10: 0252068602 (paper)
University of Illinois Press, 2000
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Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
Frank X Walker
ISBN-13: 9780813190884 (paper)
University Press of Kentucky, 2003
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Cheryl A. Wall
ISBN-10: 0253209803 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 1995
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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
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Not Without Love: Memoirs
Constance Webb
ISBN-10: 1584653019 (cloth)
University Press of New England/Dartmouth College Press, 2003
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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
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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
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The Homewood Books
John Edgar Wideman
ISBN-10: 0822938316 (cloth)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992
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Tuneful Tales
Bernice Love Wiggins, Edited by Maceo C. Dailey Jr. and Ruthe Winegarten
ISBN-10: 0896724859 (paper)
Texas Tech University Press, 2002
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August Wilson: Three Plays
August Wilson
ISBN-10: 0822936666 (cloth)
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991
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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
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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 Television

Star Trek and History: Race-ing toward a White Future
Daniel Bernardi
ISBN-10: 0813524652 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0813524660 (paper)
Rutgers University Press, 1998
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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
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Classic Hollywood, Classic Whiteness
Daniel Bernardi, editor
ISBN-10: 0816632391 (paper)
ISBN-13: 9780816632398 (paper)
University of Minnesota Press, 2001
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The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing
Carroll Parrott Blue author info
ISBN-10: 0292709137 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292709133 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 9780292705395 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2003
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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
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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
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Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision
Natalie Zemon Davis
ISBN-10: 0674004442 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0674008219 (paper)
Harvard University Press, 2000
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Black Directors in Hollywood
Melvin Donalson
ISBN-13: 9780292701793 (paper)
University of Texas Press, 2003
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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
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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
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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
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*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
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Guillaume: A Life
Robert Guillaume , with David Ritz
ISBN-10: 0826214266 (cloth)
University of Missouri Press, 2002
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Screenplays of the African American Experience
Phyllis Rauch Klotman, editor
ISBN-10: 0253206332 (paper)
Indiana University Press, 1991
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The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films
Christopher P. Lehman
ISBN-13: 9781558496132 (cloth)
University of Massachusetts Press, 2007
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Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film
Paula J. Massood
ISBN-10: 159213002X (cloth)
ISBN-10: 1592130038 (paper)
Temple University Press, 2002
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Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980–2000
Maria Pramaggiore author info
ISBN-13: 9780791470954 (cloth)
SUNY Press, 2007
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Black Film/White Money
Jesse Algeron Rhines
ISBN-10: 0813522668 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0813522676 (paper)
Rutgers University Press, 1996
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Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video
Valerie Smith, editor
ISBN-10: 0813523133 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0813523141 (paper)
Rutgers University Press, 1997
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