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
All Stories Are True
History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
A mapping of the whole Wideman universe from novels to short stories to nonfiction
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer
To Tell It Like It Is
The first collection of speeches from one of the movement’s valiant firebrands
Borders of Equality
The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970
A study of the Baltimore NAACP branch and its vanguard efforts including a detailed examination of its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson
Raymond Pace Alexander
A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia
The story of a nearly forgotten 1930s New Negro lawyer, whose contemporaries included Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and William Hastie
In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
A history of the alliance between black farmers, sharecroppers, and the People’s Party
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
A study that highlights the central role African American women writers played in creating the lasting impact and image of the movement
