African American Literature Book Club

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54 Books Published by Oxford University Press

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Click for more detail about The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Click for more detail about The Language Hoax by John McWhorter
The Language Hoax
by John McWhorter
Click for more detail about American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Heather Andrea Williams
Click for more detail about The Oxford Handbook Of African American Theology by Katie G. Cannon and Anthony B. Pinn
The Oxford Handbook Of African American Theology
by Katie G. Cannon and Anthony B. Pinn
Click for more detail about Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) by Saladin Ambar
Click for more detail about Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream by Christina M. Greer
Click for more detail about The Works Of Alain Locke by Charles Molesworth
The Works Of Alain Locke
by Charles Molesworth
Click for more detail about The Price Of The Ticket: Barack Obama And The Rise And Decline Of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) by Fredrick Harris
Click for more detail about Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Click for more detail about I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) by Audre Lorde
Click for more detail about Harlem Renaissance by Nathan Huggins
Harlem Renaissance
by Nathan Huggins
Click for more detail about Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf
Click for more detail about Pride: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities) by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter
Click for more detail about The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
by Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold
Click for more detail about Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) by Prudence L. Carter
Click for more detail about In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) by John Hope Franklin
Click for more detail about Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell
Click for more detail about Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African American Religion by Milmon F. Harrison
Click for more detail about Defining Creole by John McWhorter
Defining Creole
by John McWhorter
Click for more detail about Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists by Lisa E. Farrington
Click for more detail about Slavery and the Making of America by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
Slavery and the Making of America
by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
Click for more detail about The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about Mae West: An Icon In Black And White by Jill Watts
Click for more detail about Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Click for more detail about The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967) by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941) by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
Click for more detail about The Burden Of Memory, The Muse Of Forgiveness (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) by Wole Soyinka
Click for more detail about In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977) by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation by John Hope Franklin
Click for more detail about The Pasteboard Bandit (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children’s Literature) by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about The Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster and Trudier Harris
Click for more detail about Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Witness to Black Culture by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about The Erotics Of Talk: Women’s Writing And Feminist Paradigms by Carla Kaplan
Click for more detail about Shades Of Freedom: Racial Politics And Presumptions Of The American Legal Process by A. Leon Higginbotham
Click for more detail about “Who Set You Flowin’?”: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race And American Culture) by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Click for more detail about The Japanese American Family Album (American Family Albums) by Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler
Click for more detail about Ways of Dying (Southern African Writing) by Zakes Mda
Click for more detail about The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Volume I: New York Age Editorials (1914-1923) by Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Click for more detail about Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X by Michael Eric Dyson
Click for more detail about Black Misery by Langston Hughes
Black Misery
by Langston Hughes
Click for more detail about Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Click for more detail about Notes Of A Hanging Judge: Essays And Reviews, 1979-1989 by Stanley Crouch
Click for more detail about The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women’s Poetry by Marlon B. Ross
Click for more detail about The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Phillis Wheatley
Click for more detail about Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial“ Self by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Click for more detail about The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad
Click for more detail about Bible and Theology in African Christianity by John S. Mbiti
Click for more detail about In The Matter Of Color: Race And The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period by A. Leon Higginbotham
Click for more detail about The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books) by Wole Soyinka