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- "After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement
- "In the light of likeness-transformed" : the literary art of Leon Forrest
- "Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995)
- "Who set you flowin'?" : the African-American migration narrative
- (Dis)forming the American canon : African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular
- A Life distilled : Gwendolyn Brooks, her poetry and fiction
- A Routledge literary sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin /cedited by Debra J. Rosenthal
- A companion to African American literature
- A companion to the Harlem Renaissance
- A historical guide to Ralph Ellison
- A history of the African American novel
- A history of the Harlem Renaissance
- A human necklace : the African diaspora and Paule Marshall's fiction
- Aberrations in black : toward a queer of color critique
- Abolitionist Geographies
- African American Theatre : An Historical and Critical Analysis
- African American atheists and political liberation : a study of the sociocultural dynamics of faith
- African American literary theory : a reader
- African American literature in transition, 1750-1800
- African American literature in transition, 1800-1830
- African American literature in transition, 1830-1850
- African American literature in transition, 1850-1865
- African American literature in transition, 1865-1880 : black reconstructions
- African American literature in transition, 1900-1910, Volume 7
- African American literature in transition, 1920-1930
- African American literature in transition, 1930-1940
- African American satire : the sacredly profane novel
- African American women writers' historical fiction
- African and African American images in Newbery Award winning titles : progress in portrayals
- African diasporas : Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience
- African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader
- Afro-American poets since 1955
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker
- All stories are true : history, myth, and trauma in the work of John Edgar Wideman
- American Lazarus : religion and the rise of African-American and native American literatures
- American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon
- American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon
- Amiri Baraka : the politics and art of a Black intellectual
- Apocalyptic sentimentalism : love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature
- At home in diaspora : Black international writing
- August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone
- Authentic Blackness : the folk in the New Negro renaissance
- Autobiography in black and brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez
- Baraka : the renegade and the mask
- Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency
- Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer"
- Beyond the Chinese connection : contemporary Afro-Asian cultural production
- Black American fiction since Richard Wright
- Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
- Black chant : languages of African-American postmodernism
- Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance
- Black drama of the Federal theatre era : beyond the formal horizons
- Black folklore and the politics of racial representation
- Black girlhood in the nineteenth century
- Black imagination and the Middle Passage
- Black love and the Harlem Renaissance : (the novels of Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Zora Neale Hurston) : an essay in African American literary criticism
- Black men worshipping : intersecting anxieties of race, gender, and Christian embodiment
- Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions
- Black print unbound : The Christian Recorder, African American literature, and periodical culture
- Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject
- Black writers, white publishers : marketplace politics in twentieth-century African American literature
- Black, white, and Huckleberry Finn : re-imagining the American dream
- Black, white, and in color : essays on American literature and culture
- Blackness and value : seeing double
- Blackness and value : seeing double
- Blacks and jews in literary conversation
- Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture
- Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture
- Brown gold : milestones of African American children's picture books, 1845-2002
- Brown gold : milestones of African-American children's picture books, 1845-2002
- Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature
- Cambridge companion to the African American novel
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white
- Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora
- Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history
- Charles Chesnutt reappraised : essays on the first major African American fiction writer
- Charles Johnson : the novelist as philosopher
- Charles Johnson's novels : writing the American palimpsest
- Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race
- Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race
- Chesnutt and realism : a study of the novels
- Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Claiming Exodus : a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903
- Claude McKay : the literary identity from Jamaica to Harlem and beyond
- Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual
- Color, sex & poetry : three women writers of the Harlem Renaissance
- Conditions of the present : selected essays
- Confluences : postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and the Black Atlantic
- Contemporary African American literature : the living canon
- Conversations with Chester Himes
- Conversations with Ernest Gaines
- Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
- Conversations with Walter Mosley
- Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
- Criticism and the color line : desegrating American literary studies
- Crossing borders through folklore : African American women's fiction and art
- Crossing color : transcultural space and place in Rita Dove's poetry, fiction, and drama
- Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture
- Dangerous desire : literature of sexual freedom and sexual violence since the sixties
- Dangerous desire : sexual freedom and sexual violence since the sixties
- Deans and truants : race and realism in African American literature
- Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature
- Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature
- Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech
- Dialogues of negritude : an analysis of the cultural context of Black writing
- Disaffected : the cultural politics of unfeeling in nineteenth-century America
- Discourse and the other : the production of the Afro-American text
- Dreaming out loud : African American novelists at work
- Dreams for dead bodies : blackness, labor, and the corpus of American detective fiction
- Emerging Afrikan survivals : an Afrocentric critical theory
- Emerging Afrikan survivals : an Afrocentric critical theory
- Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865
- Enter the new Negroes : images of race in American culture
- Etai-eken
- Ethnic modernisms : Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of dislocation
- Ethnic modernisms : Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of dislocation
- Extraordinary measures : Afrocentric modernism and twentieth-century American poetry
- Facing Black and Jew : literature as public space in twentieth-century America
- Facing Black and Jew : literature as public space in twentieth-century America
- Faulkner on the color line : the later novels
- Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights
- Fictions of labor : William Faulkner and the South's long revolution
- Fictions of labor : William Faulkner and the South's long revolution
- Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature
- Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature
- Figures in black : words, signs, and the "racial" self
- Finding a way home : a critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction
- Forgotten readers : recovering the lost history of African American literary societies
- Forgotten readers : recovering the lost history of African-American literary societies
- Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture
- From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative
- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help : Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life
- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help : critical perspectives on White-authored narratives of Black life
- From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction
- From within the frame : storytelling in African-American fiction
- Geography and the political imaginary in the novels of Toni Morrison
- Ghosts of the African diaspora : re-visioning history, memory, and identity
- Gloria Naylor : a critical companion
- Growing up ethnic : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin : a casebook
- Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American tradition in poetry
- Hip figures : a literary history of the Democratic Party
- Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : race and gender in the work of Zora Neale Hurston
- Huckleberry Finn as idol and target : the functions of criticism in our time
- Hunger overcome? : food and resistance in twentieth-century African American literature
- Icons of African American literature : the Black literary world
- Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature
- Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) : a collection of critical essays
- Integral music : languages of African American innovation
- Interracial encounters : reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937
- Inventing the new Negro : narrative, culture, and ethnography
- Invisible criticism : Ralph Ellison and the American canon
- James Baldwin : America and beyond
- James Baldwin : challenging authors
- James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays
- James Weldon Johnson
- Jazz poetry : from the 1920s to the present
- Jean Genet : Arabes, Noirs et Palestiniens dans son oeuvre
- Jean Toomer and the terrors of American history
- Jean Toomer and the terrors of American history
- Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture
- Keepin' it hushed : the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric
- Kinds of blue : the jazz aesthetic in African American narrative
- Kinds of blue : the jazz aesthetic in African American narrative
- Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery
- Left of the color line : race, radicalism, and twentieth-century literature of the United States
- Liberation memories : the rhetoric and poetics of John Oliver Killens
- Literary Garveyism : Garvey, black arts, and the Harlem renaissance
- Literary ambition and the African American novel
- Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930
- Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature
- Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity
- May all your fences have gates : essays on the drama of August Wilson
- Modernism and the Harlem renaissance
- Montage of a dream : the art and life of Langston Hughes
- Multiculturalism : roots and realities
- My father's geography
- Mythic Black fiction: the transformation of history
- Nationalism and the color line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
- Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars : a new Pandora's box
- Negotiating difference : race, gender, and the politics of positionality
- Neo-passing : performing identity after Jim Crow
- Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature
- Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form
- Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form
- New essays on Invisible man
- New essays on Song of Solomon
- New voices on the Harlem Renaissance : essays on race, gender, and literary discourse
- New voices on the Harlem Renaissance : essays on race, gender, and literary discourse
- Next to the color line : gender, sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America
- Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
- Passing and the fictions of identity
- Passing the three gates : interviews with Charles Johnson
- Pauline E. Hopkins : a literary biography
- Performing blackness : enactments of African-American modernism
- Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse
- Playing with expectations : postmodern narrative choices and the African American novel
- Post-soul satire : black identity after Civil Rights
- Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
- Postcolonial narrative and the work of mourning : J.M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison
- Psychoanalysis and Black novels : desire and the protocols of race
- Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850
- Publishing blackness : textual constructions of race since 1850
- Race and the literary encounter : black literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
- Race and time : American women's poetics from antislavery to racial modernity
- Race and upward mobility : seeking, gatekeeping, and other class strategies in postwar America
- Race matters, animal matters : fugitive humanism in African America, 1840-1930
- Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Race, citizenship, and law in American literature
- Race, citizenship, and law in American literature
- Race, rape, and lynching : the red record of American literature, 1890-1912
- Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature
- Race, transnationalism, and nineteenth-century American literary studies
- Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930
- Racial discourse and cosmopolitanism in twentieth-century African American writing
- Raising the dead : readings of death and (Black) subjectivity
- Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man
- Ralph Ellison's Invisible man
- Ralph Ellison's Invisible man : a casebook
- Ralph Ellison's Invisible man : a casebook
- Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative
- Re-viewing James Baldwin : things not seen
- Reading race in American poetry : an area of act
- Reaping something new : African American transformations of Victorian literature
- Reclaiming home, remembering motherhood, rewriting history : African American and Afro-Caribbean women's literature in the twentieth century
- Red, Black, and Jew : new frontiers in Hebrew literature
- Religiosity, cosmology and folklore : the African influence in the novels of Toni Morrison
- Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction
- Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture
- Representations of death in nineteenth-century US writing and culture
- Representing segregation : toward an aesthetics of living Jim Crow, and other forms of racial division
- Rereading the Harlem renaissance : race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West
- Revisiting racialized voice : African American ethos in language and literature
- Richard Wright : new readings in the 21st century
- Richard Wright in context
- Ride out the wilderness : geography and identity in Afro-American literature
- Robert Hayden : essays on the poetry
- Romancing the shadow : Poe and race
- Romanticism and slave narratives : transatlantic testimonies
- Romanticism and slave narratives : transatlantic testimonies
- SOS-Calling All Black People : a Black Arts Movement Reader
- Sanctuary : African Americans and empire
- Satire or evasion? : Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn
- Scarring the Black body : race and representation in African American literature
- Scars of conquest/masks of resistance : the invention of cultural identities in African African-American, and Caribbean drama
- Shadowing Ralph Ellison
- Signs and cities : Black literary postmodernism
- Sitting in darkness : New South fiction, education, and the rise of Jim Crow colonialism, 1865-1920
- Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes
- Socialist joy in the writing of Langston Hughes
- Songs of the reconstructing South : building literary Louisiana, 1865-1945
- South of tradition : essays on African American literature
- Speaking in tongues and dancing diaspora : black women writing and performing
- Specters of democracy : blackness and the aesthetics of politics in the antebellum U.S.
- Split-gut song : Jean Toomer and the poetics of modernity
- Spoofing the modern : satire in the Harlem Renaissance
- Strangers in the land : Blacks, Jews, post-Holocaust America
- Street lit : representing the urban landscape
- Struggles over the word : race and religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright
- Student companion to Richard Wright
- Student companion to Zora Neale Hurston
- Subjectivity in the American protest novel
- Subversive voices : eroticizing the other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
- Super black : American pop culture and black superheroes
- Swinging the vernacular : jazz and African American modernist literature
- Technology and the logic of American racism : a cultural history of the body as evidence
- Technology and the logic of American racism : a cultural history of the body as evidence
- Telling our stories : continuities and divergences in Black autobiographies
- Temples for tomorrow : looking back at the Harlem Renaissance
- The "New Negro" in the old world : culture and performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen
- The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage
- The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
- The Black Columbiad : defining moments in African American literature and culture
- The Black arts enterprise and the production of African American poetry
- The Black arts enterprise and the production of African American poetry
- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
- The Cambridge History of African American Literature
- The Cambridge companion to August Wilson
- The Cambridge companion to Toni Morrison
- The Cambridge companion to Toni Morrison
- The Cambridge companion to the African American novel
- The Cambridge companion to the African American novel
- The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance
- The Cambridge companion to the Harlem Renaissance
- The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America
- The Culture of sentiment : race, gender, and sentimentality in nineteenth-century America
- The Harlem Renaissance : a very short introduction
- The Harlem Renaissance and the idea of a new Negro reader
- The Harlem renaissance in black and white
- The New negro : [voices of the Harlem Renaissance]
- The South in Black and white : race, sex, and literature in the 1940s
- The art and imagination of Langston Hughes
- The assertive woman in Zora Neale Hurston's fiction, folklore, and drama
- The blacker the ink : constructions of black identity in comics and sequential art
- The blues aesthetic and the making of American identity in the literature of the South
- The blues detective : a study of African American detective fiction
- The collage aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance
- The collected essays of Ralph Ellison
- The color of sex : whiteness, heterosexuality, and the fictions of white supremacy
- The contemporary African American novel: : its folk roots and modern literary branches
- The contemporary African-American novel : multiple cities, multiple subjectivities, and discursive practices of whiteness in everyday urban encounters
- The death-bound-subject : Richard Wright's archaeology of death
- The death-bound-subject : Richard Wright's archaeology of death
- The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature
- The fugitive's properties : law and the poetics of possession
- The grasp that reaches beyond the grave : the ancestral call in black women's texts
- The hammers of creation : folk culture in modern African-American fiction
- The inhuman race : the racial grotesque in American literature and culture
- The myth of Aunt Jemima : representations of race and region
- The new Negro : an interpretation
- The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938
- The origins of African American literature, 1680-1865
- The past as present in the drama of August Wilson
- The past as present in the drama of August Wilson
- The postwar African American novel : protest and discontent, 1945-1950
- The public intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois : emotional dimensions of race and reform
- The racial imaginary : writers on race in the life of the mind
- The real Negro : the question of authenticity in twentieth-century African American literature
- The real negro : the question of authenticity in twentieth-century African American literature
- The signifying monkey : a theory of Afro-American literary criticism
- The slave's rebellion : literature, history, orature
- The souls of mixed folk : race, politics, and aesthetics in the new millennium
- The super black macho, one baaad mutha: : Black superhero masculinity in 1970s mainstream comic books/
- The unruly voice : rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- The voices of African American women : the use of narrative and authorial voice in the works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alice Walker
- The white image in the Black mind : a study of African American literature
- The wings of Atalanta : essays written along the color line
- The works of William Sanders Scarborough : Black classicist and race leader
- The world of Toni Morrison : explorations in literary criticism
- To be suddenly white : literary realism and racial passing
- To make Negro literature : writing, literary practice & African American authorship
- To make Negro literature : writing, literary practice, and African American authorship
- To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature
- To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature
- Toni Morrison : paradise, love, a mercy
- Toni Morrison's fiction
- Two guns from Harlem : the detective fiction of Chester Himes
- Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the 1850s
- Uncle Tom's cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911
- Understanding August Wilson
- Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks
- Unexpected places : relocating nineteenth-century African American literature
- Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
- Untimely democracy : the politics of progress after slavery
- Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African American history and representation
- Violence in the Black imagination : essays and documents
- Visualizing Blackness and the creation of the African American literary tradition
- Weyward Macbeth : intersections of race and performance
- What else but love? : the ordeal of race in Faulkner and Morrison
- What was African American literature?
- What's a Black critic to do? : interviews, profiles, and reviews of Black writers
- Which sin to bear? : authenticity and compromise in Langston Hughes
- White supremacy in children's literature : characterizations of African Americans, 1830-1900
- Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin : nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe
- Within the circle : an anthology of African American literary criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the present
- Witness to the journey : James Baldwin's later fiction
- Women in chains : the legacy of slavery in Black women's fiction
- Word by word : emancipation and the act of writing
- Word, image, and the New Negro : representation and identity in the Harlem Renaissance
- Writing America black : race rhetoric and the public sphere
- Zora Neale Hurston & American literary culture
- Zora Neale Hurston : the breath of her voice
- Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life
- Zora Neale Hurston and a history of southern life
- Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God : a casebook
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