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Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed 0000000121258332 “A great writer.” —James Baldwin Ishmael Reed, born 1933, is a prominent black American writer known for his engaging novels, poetry, plays, and es...

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Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove

Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove MULTIPLE Prominent authors Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, ...

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The Reed Reader

by Ishmael Reed

The Reed Reader Ishmael Reed 9780465068937 Fiction Basic Books Perseus Books In The Reed Reader Ishmael Reed displays the brilliant and witty satire, politically charged, wildly imaginative storytelli...

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Conjugating Hindi (galley)

by Ishmael Reed

Conjugating Hindi (galley) Ishmael Reed 9781628972542 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press California is still the world’s biggest hideout. The only thing more western is the Pacific Ocea...

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Conjure; Selected Poems, 1963-1970

by Ishmael Reed

Conjure; Selected Poems, 1963-1970 Ishmael Reed 9780870231148 Poetry University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press Conjure includes Ishmael’s “Neo-HooDoo Manifesto,” inspiration ...

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The Terrible Fours

by Ishmael Reed

The Terrible Fours Ishmael Reed 9781771862431 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books When Ishmael Reed wrote The Terrible Twos about the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have...

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Black Hollywood Unchained

by Ishmael Reed

Black Hollywood Unchained Ishmael Reed 9780883783535 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intelle...

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Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California

by Reginald Martin

Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California Reginald Martin Interview REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed a...

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From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002

by Ishmael Reed

From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 Ishmael Reed 9781560254584 Poetry Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur f...

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The Slave Who Loved Caviar

by Ishmael Reed

The Slave Who Loved Caviar Ishmael Reed 9781648230165 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught rel...

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Bigotry on Broadway

by Ishmael Reed

Bigotry on Broadway Ishmael Reed 9781771862561 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited 12 informed and accomplished writers and c...

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Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series)

by Ishmael Reed

Juice!: A Novel (American Literature Series) Ishmael Reed 9781564786371 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpso...

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Ishmael Reed: The Plays (American Literature)

by Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed: The Plays (American Literature) Ishmael Reed 9781564785510 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American...

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The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda

by Ishmael Reed

The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda Ishmael Reed 9781576879245 Nonfiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books "That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton." Described by the New York Times as "classic activis...

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Life Among the Aryans

by Ishmael Reed

Life Among the Aryans Ishmael Reed 9781576879900 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controver...

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Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now

by Ishmael Reed

Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now Ishmael Reed 9781568583426 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Using the yardstick that a short stor...

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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

by Ishmael Reed

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Ishmael Reed 9781564782380 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press “Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse ...

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Flight to Canada

by Ishmael Reed

Flight to Canada Ishmael Reed 9780684847504 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave’s-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infecte...

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Japanese by Spring

by Ishmael Reed

Japanese by Spring Ishmael Reed 9780140255850 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts aft...

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Mumbo Jumbo

by Ishmael Reed

Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 9780684824772 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed’s brilliantly ...

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Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues

by Ishmael Reed

Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues Ishmael Reed 9781628973587 Poetry Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. When asked to describe t...

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Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky

by Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove

Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...

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The Complete Muhammad Ali

by Ishmael Reed

The Complete Muhammad Ali Ishmael Reed 9781771860406 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Ree...

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The Terrible Threes

by Ishmael Reed

The Terrible Threes Ishmael Reed 9781564782243 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press With offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in "The Terrible Threes" a vis...

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The Free-Lance Pallbearers: A Novel

by Ishmael Reed

The Free-Lance Pallbearers: A Novel Ishmael Reed 9781564782250 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press Ishmael Reed’s electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom...

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The Terrible Twos

by Ishmael Reed

The Terrible Twos Ishmael Reed 9781564782267 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press "The Terrible Twos" is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysay...

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Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace

by Ishmael Reed

Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace Ishmael Reed 9780140259124 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Multi-America is an unprecedented, unpredictable and absolutely refre...

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Steve Cannon

Steve Cannon 0000000363821597 Steve Cannon (1935-2019) was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and a prominent Black writer from New Orleans. He moved to NYC in 1962, where he engaged in literary...

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Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections

by Ishmael Reed

Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections Ishmael Reed 9781568583396 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times...

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New and Collected Poems 1964-2007

by Ishmael Reed

New and Collected Poems 1964-2007 Ishmael Reed 9781568583419 Poetry Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profou...

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Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War

by Ishmael Reed

Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War Ishmael Reed 9780465068920 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books African Americans have been at war with some elements of the white population fro...

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The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel

by Ishmael Reed

The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel Ishmael Reed 9781564782366 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo) comes...

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Sam Gilliam

by Ishmael Reed

Sam Gilliam Ishmael Reed 9781838663933 Nonfiction Phaidon Press Phaidon Press The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in post-war American painting An African American ...

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Black Fire This Time

by Kim McMillon

Black Fire This Time Kim McMillon 9781737987673 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press An anthology that explores all facets of the Black Arts Movement. Edited by Dr. Kim McMillon and Kofi Antwi. Forew...

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The Minister Primarily

by John Oliver Killens

The Minister Primarily John Oliver Killens 9780063079595 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Featuring an Introduction by Ishmael Reed A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long...

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Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump

by Patrick A. Howell

Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump Patrick A. Howell 9781912248667 Nonfiction Repeater Books Repeater Books A collection of writers, po...

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Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico

by Ishmael Reed

Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico Ishmael Reed 9781771861854 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confede...

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Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures

by Michael Datcher

Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures Michael Datcher 9781438473406 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Animating Black an...

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King Comus

by William Demby

King Comus William Demby 9780918408259 Fiction Ishmael Reed Publishing Ishmael Reed Publishing With this publication of the novel “King Comus,” William Demby caps his already great literary achievemen...

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Broke Baroque

by Tony Medina

Broke Baroque Tony Medina 9780988476356 Fiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina. With razor sharp scatological whimsy,...

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Going Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown

by Ishmael Reed

Going Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown Ishmael Reed 9781926824567 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is...

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Barack Obama And The Jim Crow Media: The Return Of The Nigger Breakers

by Ishmael Reed

Barack Obama And The Jim Crow Media: The Return Of The Nigger Breakers Ishmael Reed 9780981240572 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Ba...

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Reckless Eyeballing

by Ishmael Reed

Reckless Eyeballing Ishmael Reed 9781564782373 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press It’s the 1980s and the politics of the New York theater scene have taken yet another turn.

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Clifford’s Blues

by John A. Williams

Clifford’s Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century”—Ishmael...

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Okapi Passion

by Ted Joans

Okapi Passion Ted Joans 9780918408280 Poetry Ishmael Reed Publishing Ishmael Reed Publishing

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The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology

by Ishmael Reed

The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology Ishmael Reed 9780393308327 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. This anthology includes 30 selections from a decade of award-win...

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Black No More: Being An Account Of The Strange And Wonderful Working Of Science In The Land Of The Free, A.D. 1933-1940

by George S. Schuyler

Black No More: Being An Account Of The Strange And Wonderful Working Of Science In The Land Of The Free, A.D. 1933-1940 George S. Schuyler 9781555530631 Nonfiction Northeastern Northeastern Black No M...

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You Made Me Love You

by Robert Fleming

You Made Me Love You Robert Fleming Book Review Like Ishmael Reed, Clarence Major, and other legendary African-American male writers of their generation, John Edgar Wideman, at eighty, is nearing the...

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The Complete Muhammad Ali

by Tony Lindsay

The Complete Muhammad Ali Tony Lindsay Book Review Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Ali is much more than a standard biography. The work provides specific details on numerous facets that su...

Articles

Our Future is Cyberspace

by Troy Johnson

Our Future is Cyberspace Troy Johnson Article “Outsiders” have often dictated the trends of African American Culture, sometimes doing the job themselves, sometimes using what authors John A. Williams...

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AALBC.com Interview with Jeff Chang

by Kam Williams

AALBC.com Interview with Jeff Chang Kam Williams Interview Kam Williams: Hi Jeff. Thanks for the time and congratulations on the NAACP Image Award nomination for Who We Be. You used to ...

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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

by Sheree Renée Thomas

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446525831 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and ...

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Opal Palmer Adisa

Opal Palmer Adisa 0000000109299318 Dr. Opal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born award-winning poet, novelist, and educator, known for her work in over 100 publications. She holds degrees from NYU, San Fra...

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The Man Who Cried I Am (2023)

by John A. Williams

The Man Who Cried I Am (2023) John A. Williams 9781598537611 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postw...

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Fat Time and Other Stories

by Jeffery Renard Allen

Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fa...

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Black Buck

by Mateo Askaripour

Black Buck Mateo Askaripour 9780358627982 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of ver...

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The Collected Novels of Charles Wright: The Messenger, the Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed about

by Charles Wright

The Collected Novels of Charles Wright: The Messenger, the Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed about Charles Wright 9780062839602 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins "Reading Wright is a ste...

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Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America

by Haki Madhubuti and Lasana D. Kazembe

Not Our President: New directions from the Pushed Out, The Others and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America Haki Madhubuti and Lasana D. Kazembe 9780883783726 Nonfiction Third World Press Third...

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The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy

by Keith Gilyard

The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy Keith Gilyard 9780940738362 Nonfiction Blind Beggar Press Blind Beggar Press The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy lives up to its provocative title. This is a work...

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Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing

by Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford

Meditations And Ascensions: Black Writers On Writing Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford 9780883782965 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Representing conversations from the Eighth National...

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I Dreamed My People Were Calling But I Couldn't Find My Way Home

by Danny Simmons

I Dreamed My People Were Calling But I Couldn't Find My Way Home Danny Simmons 9780965830836 Fiction Moore Black Press Moore Black Press "At the heart of this powerful collection of poems and painting...

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Eros Muse: Poems & Essays

by Opal Palmer Adisa

Eros Muse: Poems & Essays Opal Palmer Adisa 9781592213986 Poetry Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Eros Muse examines the love affair between the poet and her muse. Personifyi...

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Soulscript: A Collection Of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics)

by June Jordan

Soulscript: A Collection Of Classic African American Poetry (Harlem Moon Classics) June Jordan 9780767918466 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward c...

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Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman

by Arthur R. Flowers

Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman Arthur R. Flowers 9780971581609 Fiction Wanganegresse Press Wanganegresse Press To create art that impacts the heart and mind of the community req...

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African American Writers: Portraits and Visions

by Lynda Koolish

African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai   Will Alexander   Robe...

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Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s

by Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez

Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez 9780820442617 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Defining Ourselves offers perspectives on b...

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Annotations

by John Keene

Annotations John Keene 9780811213042 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing Praised by Ishmael Reed An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a grea...

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Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945

by Michael S. Harper

Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 Michael S. Harper 9780316347105 Poetry Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich ...

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Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction

by Terry McMillan

Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction Terry McMillan 9780140116977 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A striking collection of works from authors both establis...

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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780195060751 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s original...

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Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial“ Self

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial“ Self Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780195060744 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press For over two centuries, critics and the black comm...

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Vietnam and Black America: An Anthology of Protest and Resistance

by Clyde R. Taylor

Vietnam and Black America: An Anthology of Protest and Resistance Clyde R. Taylor 9780385018098 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Vietnam and Black America: An Anthology of Protest and Resi...

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Colnese M. Hendon

Colnese M. Hendon NONE Colnese M. Hendon is a published author of memoirs, short stories, and poetry with fellowships from multiple foundations. She holds a BA in Professional Communications/Public R...

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