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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
A comprehensive collection of African-American literature features more than 120 writers with works covering more than two hundred years and encompassing the genres of fiction, poetry, short stories, drama, autobiography, journals, and letters.
- ASIN: 0393040011
- ASIN: 0393040011
- ISBN: 0393040011
- Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Boss Gave Me the Best Love 3
Supreme has finally come head to head with his past, and he has no plans to back down or lose the war that has ensued. Will he finally get rid of the one person who is singlehandedly ruining his relationship, or will he be the one to take the fall?Sova has finally found the man of her dreams, and she refuses to allow anyone to get in their way. However, when that one person happens to be whom Supreme cherishes most, will Sova be able to hold on to her happily ever after?Mink has gone his entire life without allowing love to sneak up on him until he met Oma. When his old ways put her life on th... [Read More]
- ASIN: B07TLVVLC5
- ASIN: B07TLVVLC5
- Manufacturer: Leo Sullivan Presents
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden FiguresBetween the years of 1830 and 1927, as the last generation of blacks born into slavery was reaching maturity, a small group of industrious, tenacious, and daring men and women broke new ground to attain the highest levels of financial success.Mary Ellen Pleasant, used her Gold Rush wealth to further the cause of abolitionis... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0062437607
- ASIN: 0062437607
- ISBN: 0062437607
- Manufacturer: Amistad
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The 100 Best African American Poems
Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nikki Giovanni Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round number. The result is this startlingly vibrant collection that spans from historic to modern, from structured to freeform, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African American verse. These magnetic poems are an exciting mix of most-loved... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1402221118
- UPC: 760789225604
- ASIN: 1402221118
- ISBN: 9781402221118
- Brand: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
- Manufacturer: Sourcebooks MediaFusion
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
This fully illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's newest museum takes visitors on a journey through the richness and diversity of African American culture and the history of a people whose struggles, aspirations, and achievements have shaped the nation. Opened in September 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture welcomes all visitors who seek to understand, remember, and celebrate this history. The guidebook provides a comprehensive tour of the museum, including its magnificent building and grounds and eleven permanent exhibition galleries dedicated to themes of histo... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1588345939
- ASIN: 1588345939
- ISBN: 1588345939
- Manufacturer: Smithsonian Books
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Third Edition) (Vol. 1)
An exciting revision of the best-selling anthology for African American literary survey courses. The much-anticipated Third Edition brings together the work of 140 writers from 1746 to the present writing in all genres, as well as performers of vernacular forms―from spirituals and sermons to jazz and hip hop. Fresh scholarship, new visuals and media, and new selections―with an emphasis on contemporary writers―combine to make The Norton Anthology of African American Literature an even better teaching tool for instructors and an unmatched value for students.
- ASIN: 039392369X
- ASIN: 039392369X
- ISBN: 039392369X
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best (American Century Series)
The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original―from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of Jam... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0374523541
- ASIN: 0374523541
- ISBN: 0374523541
- Brand: Hill and Wang
- Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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Man Down
Keemie was the villain with a shrewd attitude. No one ever understood him and he preferred it that way. He had been different from birth with the knowledge of ten men, and with his unique qualities, he had piqued the interest of a well-known businessman. With an invitation into another realm, Keemie falls head first into a world that is dangerous but compelling at the same time. He knows this new lifestyle could potentially lead to disaster but he’s in way too deep with no interest of escaping.Pebbles craved normalcy but life had offered her everything but that. She had been placed in a stra... [Read More]
- ASIN: B07WHLCRY6
- ASIN: B07WHLCRY6
- Manufacturer: It's Timeless Publications
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.
- ASIN: 0393977781
- ASIN: 0393977781
- ISBN: 0393977781
- Brand: W.W. Norton & Co
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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An African American Cookbook, Revised and Updated: Traditional and Other Favorite Recipes
An African American Cookbook: Traditional and Other Favorite Recipes is a bountiful collection of favorite foods and the memories that go with them. The traditional foods reflect the ingenious, resourceful, and imaginative Africans who made them. Woven among the four hundred recipes are rich historic anecdotes and sayings. They were discovered or lived by the cookbook’s contributors, many of whose ancestors participated in the Underground Railroad or lived near where it was active. This is a cookbook rich in history and rich in easy-to-prepare, wonderfully tasty food! Recipes include: Coll... [Read More]
- ASIN: 1680990543
- ASIN: 1680990543
- ISBN: 1680990543
- Brand: Good Books
- Manufacturer: Good Books
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African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (The Library of Black America series)
This collection of anecdotes, tales, jokes, toasts, rhymes, satire, riffs, poems, stand-up sketches, and snaps documents the evolution of African American humor over the past two centuries. It includes routines and writings from such luminaries as Bert Williams, Butterbeans & Susie, Stepin Fetchit, Moms Mabley, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Redd Foxx, Ishmael Reed, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Martin Lawrence, and Chris Rock. This anthology includes classic stage routines, literary examples, and witty quotations presented in their entirety.
- ASIN: 1556524315
- ASIN: 1556524315
- ISBN: 1556524315
- Brand: Brand: Chicago Review Press
- Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
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100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)
Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized chronologically and meticulously researched, this book provides an educational look at the prominent role that these individuals played and how their varied talents, ideas and expertise contributed to American history. * Concise & Easy to Read Text * F... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0912517182
- ASIN: 0912517182
- ISBN: 0912517182
- Brand: Bluewood Books
- Manufacturer: Bluewood Books
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What Was African American Literature? (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature―and to change the terms with which we discuss it.Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the firs... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0674066294
- ASIN: 0674066294
- ISBN: 0674066294
- Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
- Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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American Street
A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews!A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the YearAmerican Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys.In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immig... [Read More]
- ASIN: 0062473042
- ASIN: 0062473042
- ISBN: 0062473042
- Brand: BALZER BRAY
- Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray
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Great Short Stories by African-American Writers (Dover Thrift Editions)
Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly 30 outstanding stories include tales by W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. From the turn of the twentieth century come Alice Ruth Moore's "A Carnival Jangle," Charles W. Chesnutt's "Uncle Wellington’s Wives," and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Scapegoat." Other stories include "Becky" by Jean Toomer; "Afternoon" by Ralph Ellison; Langston Hughes's "Feet Live Their Own Life"; and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W.... [Read More]
- ASIN: 048647139X
- UPC: 800759471393
- ASIN: 048647139X
- ISBN: 9780486471396
- Brand: Blaisdell, Bob (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 1
An exciting revision of the best-selling anthology for African American literary survey
- UPC: 26791287
- Rating: 3.0
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100 Best African American Poems, The
Award-winning poet and writer Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary
- UPC: 12337656
- Rating: 4.0
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The Annotated African American Folktales
These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American
- UPC: 56045525
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The Signifying Monkey : A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1989"--Title page
- UPC: 9910333
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Wines in the Wilderness : Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
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- UPC: 52840460
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Provides a survey of African American literature, from 140 writers, covering three
- UPC: 26791288
- Rating: 3.0
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
An exciting revision of the best-selling anthology for African American literary survey
- UPC: 26791281
- Rating: 3.0
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Contemporary African American Literature - eBook
In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary
- UPC: 636190017
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Crossing the color line in American politics and African American literature - eBook
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, University of Freiburg, language: English, abstract: My work will deal with some new and interesting subjects all united by a
- UPC: 226080988
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F.B. Eyes : How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect
- UPC: 38187909
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