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Wayne State University Press

A Part of Wayne State University

29 Books Published

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Publications List

Discourse in Black: Voices of the Self, Let’s Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories
The Promise of Language: A Memoir
The Promise of Language: A Memoir
Keith Gilyard
Jan 2025
Kin: Practically True Stories
Kin: Practically True Stories
V. Efua Prince
Aug 2024
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World
That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World
Rochelle Riley, and Cristi Smith-Jones
Feb 2021
Black People Are My Business: Toni Cade Bambara’s Practices of Liberation
The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery
come see about me, marvin
come see about me, marvin
Brian Gilmore
Sep 2019
Black Indian
Black Indian
Shonda Buchanan
Aug 2019
Know the Mother
Know the Mother
Desiree Cooper
Mar 2016
The Colored Car
The Colored Car
Jean Alicia Elster
Sep 2013
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall
Who’s Jim Hines?
Who’s Jim Hines?
Jean Alicia Elster
Jul 2008
Dear Chester, Dear John
Dear Chester, Dear John
John A. Williams and Lori Williams
Feb 2008
Blue-Tail Fly
Blue-Tail Fly
Vievee Francis
Mar 2006
What Mama Said: An Epic Drama (African American Life Series)
Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric And Poetics Of John Oliver Killens (African American Life Series)
Looking Within/Mirar adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas escogidos, 1954-2000
Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile & Collector
Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Sep 2000
Tell It to Women: An Epic Drama for Women (African American Life Series)
Let’s Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning
Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race