Rediscovering Frank Yerby
Critical Essays
The first book-length sounding of the major contributions of the first black American novelist to sell more than a million copies
Black Intellectual Thought in Modern America
A Historical Perspective
An inclusive survey from Frederick Douglass to the voices of Black Lives Matter
Black and More than Black
African American Fiction in the Post Era
An impressive reading of recent writers who question the meaning of blackness while also embracing an elective racial identity
Black and More than Black
African American Fiction in the Post Era
An impressive reading of recent writers who question the meaning of blackness while also embracing an elective racial identity
Labor Pains
New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex in the South
A fresh consideration of the impact of black radicalism on black characters in southern modernism
Can’t Stand Still
Taylor Gordon and the Harlem Renaissance
The first biography of a singer who was once one of the most significant African American male vocalists in America
Aaron Henry
The Fire Ever Burning
The memoir of a fearless black leader in the civil rights struggle in Mississippi
The African American Sonnet
A Literary History
A thoughtful survey of striking poems from the Civil War to the present
This Woman's Work
The Writing and Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
A critical biography of the novelist and champion for mental health issues
No Small Thing
The 1963 Mississippi Freedom Vote
A history that redefines the beginning of the fight for black suffrage
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation
An examination of how nineteenth-century African American folklore studies became a site of national debate
To Write in the Light of Freedom
The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools
A collection and examination of the creative literary work of Freedom School students discovering pathways to racial justice
African American Haiku
Cultural Visions
The first study solely dedicated to exploring the power of African American haiku
Raised Up Down Yonder
Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama
A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
The first book to examine whiteness as an intellectual tradition within African American literature
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
How the aftermath of the Great Depression convinced several African American writers to adopt a leftist outlook
Searching for the New Black Man
Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
The role of women’s bodies in the productions of ideal and progressive black masculinities in African American literature
Perspectives on Percival Everett
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output
Count Them One by One
Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote
The Postwar African American Novel
Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950
A rediscovery of forgotten talent overshadowed in the heyday of the African American novel