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