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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison 0000000121178826 Ralph Ellison, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Invisible Man, whose powerful prose and profound insights on race, identity, and the human spirit continue to shape Amer...
Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated Ralph Ellison 9780812968262 Nonfiction Modern Library Penguin Random House Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary execut...
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius Lawrence P. Jackson 9780820329932 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Author, intellectual, and social critic, Ralph Ellison (1914-94)...
Jazz Country
Jazz Country Walter Benefield Book Review Studying the writings of writer-intellectual Ralph Ellison, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Invisible Man promises to be rewarding. Horace Porter ...
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Ralph Ellison: A Biography Arnold Rampersad 9780375408274 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The definitive biography of one of the most important American writers and cultural intellectuals of the...
Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters
Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters Ralph Ellison 9780812998528 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisibl...
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
Ralph Ellison: A Biography Kam Williams Book Review "I know by now that all my little triumphs are in reality defeats." — Ralph Ellison, 1961 When Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) won th...
Juneteenth
Juneteenth Ralph Ellison Excerpt After Ellison’s death on April 16, 1994, speculation about the existence of the second novel reignited. In an article in the New York Times, William Grimes asse...
Three Days Before The Shooting…
Three Days Before The Shooting… Ralph Ellison 9780375759536 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished sec...
Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America
Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America Horace A. Porter 9780877457770 Fiction University of Iowa Press University of Iowa Press The first book to reassess Ralph Ellison after his death and the posthum...
Three Days Before The Shooting…
Three Days Before The Shooting… Robert Fleming Book Review When legendary African American writer Ralph Ellison died in 1994, everyone who loves good books mourned at his passing and wondered i...
Flying Home: And Other Stories
Flying Home: And Other Stories Ralph Ellison 9780679776611 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House Written between 1937 and 1954 and now available in paperback for the first time, these thirteen stori...
Juneteenth: A Novel
Juneteenth: A Novel Ralph Ellison 9780394464572 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Juneteenth, the Senator said, closing his eyes, his bandaged head resting beneath his hands. Words of Emancipa...
Shadow And Act
Shadow And Act Ralph Ellison 9780679760009 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralp...
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man Gerald L. Early 9780761442752 Nonfiction Benchmark Books Benchmark Books "A biography of writer Ralph Ellison that describes his era, his major work—Invisible Man—his life...
Invisible Man
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 9780679732761 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Both a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature. The book’s nameless nar...
Invisible Man
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 9780679601395 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeInvisible Man is a milestone in American l...
The Negro Quarterly
The Negro Quarterly Ralph Ellison 9781258708894 Nonfiction Literary Licensing Literary Licensing The “Buy This Book Now” links above point to a 2013 reprint of the original 1942 (Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer...
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Others
James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, and Others MULTIPLE
Leon Forrest
Leon Forrest 0000000078313585 Leon Richard Forrest, born in Chicago, was a novelist, journalist, and former Public Information Officer for the US Army. He taught at Northwestern University for over 2...
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X
Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X MULTIPLE
Lone Women
Lone Women Victor Lavalle 9780525512103 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “If the literary gods mixed together Karuki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor Lavaelle.” —Anthony Do...
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture Robert G. O’Meally 9780231189194 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Ralph Elli...
The Romare Bearden Reader
The Romare Bearden Reader Robert G. O’Meally 9781478000587 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and c...
The Craft of Ralph Ellison
The Craft of Ralph Ellison Robert G. O’Meally 9780674423169 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press
Conversations with Ralph Ellison
Conversations with Ralph Ellison Maryemma Graham 9780878057818 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era Shelby Steele 9780060578633 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison’s or Richard...
Blood on the Forge
Blood on the Forge William Attaway 9781590171349 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of...
Black Voices
Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...
Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison
Speaking for You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison Kimberly W. Benston 9780882581699 Nonfiction Howard University Press Howard University Press This collection of essays reflects the interplay between aest...
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...
Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch 000000011474616X Stanley Crouch (December 14, 1945 – September 16, 2020) was born in Los Angeles. He was an American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelis...
Victor Lavalle
Victor Lavalle 0000000114589002 “If the literary gods mixed together Karuki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor Lavaelle.” Victor D. LaValle, born in 1972, is an award-w...
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy Ralph Ellison Book Review Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma is not an easy book for an American Negro to review. Not because he mig...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Robert Fleming Book Review Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. Howeve...
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes Charisse Carney-Nunes Article The Lit Bit Wall Street is in for another invasion… no, not just more protestors armed with ...
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775844 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Lambda Literary Award Fina...
New Essays on Invisible Man
New Essays on Invisible Man Robert G. O’Meally 9780521313698 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Published less than fifty years ago, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man shares ...
Albert Murray
Albert Murray 0000000083695821 Albert L. Murray (1916-2013) was a respected critic, novelist, and biographer. Born in Alabama, he divided his time between teaching and serving in the air force before...
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston 0000000109083197 “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the titans of twentieth-century African American ...
Conversation with the Mann
Conversation with the Mann Thumper Book Review Not since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has a first person narrative novel struck me with such a poignant sense of completeness and satisfaction a...
The Man Who Cried I Am
The Man Who Cried I Am John A. Williams Excerpt FOREWORD by Graham Hodges The publication of John A. Williams’ fourth novel, The Man Who Cried I Am, in October, 1967, caused cr...
Loving Day: A Novel
Loving Day: A Novel Mat Johnson 9780812983661 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Men’s Journal • Th...
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries Davida Siwisa James 9781531506148 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Explo...
Fat Time and Other Stories
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...
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness
School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness Jarvis R. Givens 9780807054819 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US educati...
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Harrison Mooney 9781586423469 Nonfiction Truth to Power Steerforth Press An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir awaits in Harrison Mooney’s powerful debut, a s...
Reading Black Books
Reading Black Books Claude Atcho 9781587435645 Nonfiction Brazos Press Baker Publishing Group Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts) Learning from Black voices means liste...
Black Buck
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...
American Spy: A Novel
American Spy: A Novel Lauren Wilkinson 9780812988284 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House “[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le Carré with the raci...
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780525509066 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, a...
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Rachel L. Swarns 9780316552967 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Gro...
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Chester B. Himes: A Biography Lawrence P. Jackson 9780393063899 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Chester B. Himes has been called "one of the towering figures of the blac...
The Changeling: A Novel
The Changeling: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9780812995947 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House “If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaVa...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9780375413797 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, the Sarah Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Hu...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 Lawrence P. Jackson 9780691141350 Fiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Ind...
God Is Not An American
God Is Not An American jessica Care moore 9780965830867 Fiction Moore Black Press Moore Black Press In the labyrinth of Moore’s prose and poetry, the blues force is synonymous with the Derridean trace...
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett Percival Everett 9781933354705 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that cou...
Richard Wright: The Life and Times
Richard Wright: The Life and Times Hazel Rowley 9780226730387 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Consistently an outsider—a child of the fundamentalist South with an eight...
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Sara Blair 9780691130873 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Harlem riot of 1935 not o...
Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations)
Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations) Leon Forrest 9781578069903 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Leon Forrest (1937-1997) was among the most ...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin 9780977342112 Fiction SoulViewWorld SoulViewWorld OLD ...
One More Day’s Journey: The Story Of A Family And A People
One More Day’s Journey: The Story Of A Family And A People Allen Ballard 9780595318025 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions One More Day’s Journey chronicles the movement of African Americans from So...
A History of the African-American People (Proposed)
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) Percival Everett and James Kincaid 9781888451573 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for Percival Everett:If Percival Everett isn’t already ...
Stagolee Shot Billy
Stagolee Shot Billy Cecil Brown 9780674010567 Fiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Although his story has been told countless times—by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, an...
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture Hortense J. Spillers 9780226769806 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Black, White, and in Color offe...
Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Rh Trade Pbk)
Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Rh Trade Pbk) Jon Meacham 9780375758812 Nonfiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House A literary anthology of importan...
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature Charles Henry Rowell 9780312288983 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers This important book collects a wide range of fiction and poetry that fi...
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967)
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967) Arnold Rampersad 9780195146431 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press February ...
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World Arnold Rampersad 9780195151619 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday o...
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten 9780679451136 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House These engaging and wonderful...
Drop
Drop Mat Johnson 9781582341040 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing A new voice in American fiction recalling the work of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Drop is an irreverent and unforgettab...
African American Literary Theory: A Reader
African American Literary Theory: A Reader Winston Napier 9780814758106 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press African American Literary Theory: A Reader is the first volume to...
I Call Myself An Artist: Writings by and About Charles Johnson
I Call Myself An Artist: Writings by and About Charles Johnson Rudolph P. Byrd 9780253335418 Nonfiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press Charles Johnson is one of the most talented ar...
Bloodline: Five Stories
Bloodline: Five Stories Ernest J. Gaines 9780679781653 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In these five stories, Gaines returns to the cane fields, sharecroppers’ shacks, and decaying plantation hou...
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris 9780195065107 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here indeed ...
“Who Set You Flowin’?”: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race And American Culture)
“Who Set You Flowin’?”: The African-American Migration Narrative (Race And American Culture) Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780195088977 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Twentieth-ce...
Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters Bebe Moore Campbell 9780425149409 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House "This book is about succeeding—and surviving—even being happy, in a society where every card seems sta...
Divine Days
Divine Days Leon Forrest 9780393312218 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A unanimous chorus of critical acclaim greeted this powerful novel last year―one of the most signi...
Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrations
Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrations Malaika Adero 9781565841680 Fiction The New Press The New Press Perhaps the greatest migration in America’s history is the early ...
Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative
Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative Valerie Smith 9780674800885 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press In this perceptive exploration of the relationship betw...
The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life
The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life Calvin C. Hernton 9780385418270 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House The author of...
Sexual Mountain
Sexual Mountain Calvin C. Hernton 9780385239219 Nonfiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House The author of Sex and Racism in America argues here that black men, who dominate the world of black lite...
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
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...
Belly Song and Other Poems
Belly Song and Other Poems Etheridge Knight 9780910296885 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers—Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick...
The Best Short Stories By Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology
The Best Short Stories By Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology Langston Hughes 9780316380317 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group THE BEST SHORT STORES BY BLACK WRITERS FROM 1899-1967...
Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 9780451157416 Fiction New American Library Penguin Random House With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most...
Night Song
Night Song John A. Williams nightsong Fiction Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Macmillan Publishers Originally Published in 1961 Inspired by the life of Charlie “Bird” Parker, this poignant, provocative, ...
Arnold Rampersad
Arnold Rampersad 0000000110823009 Arnold Rampersad, a renowned professor emeritus at Stanford University, is a respected author of biographies including those of Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, an...
Jesse McCarthy
Jesse McCarthy NONE Jesse McCarthy is an assistant professor of English and of African and African American studies at Harvard University. His critically acclaimed essay collection Who Will Pay Repar...
In My Father’s House
In My Father’s House Thumper Book Review In My Father’s House is the first installment to a new series the late E. Lynn Harris was working on at the time of his death. I don’t know if t...
Let the Oppressed Go Free: Exploring Theologies of Liberation
Let the Oppressed Go Free: Exploring Theologies of Liberation Marvin Andrew McMickle Excerpt The Invisible Black Woman It seems that African American men who worked tirelessly to reverse the st...
Walter Benefield
Walter Benefield Kam Williams Interview An avid reader, husband, father, U.S. Marine and writer, Walter says, "reading African American Literature is contagious." Reading great stories a...