African American studies is the systematic study of the black experience—geographically, socioeconomically, and culturally—that seeks to explore and better understand the African American experience.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The acclaimed encyclopedic survey of black musical creation that marked the countdown to the explosion of ragtime.Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of.....
New York: Dramatist's Play Service, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The three tales are ‘Adaptation of Sweat’, ‘Story in Harlem slang’, and ‘the gilded six-bits’.Background Information: George C. Wolfe, the African American playwright, who succeeded Joseph Papp as head of the New York.....
New York: Nok Pub Intl, 1979. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint is the debut novel of Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo, first published by Longman in 1977.It has been called "a witty, experimental work whose main point is a stylish dismissal of.....
New York: Venture Press Book/Simon and Schuster, 1947. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Interesting period historical fiction novel regarding race in the south involving the rape of a black woman.
Atlanta, Georgia: Ellis Lane Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The lives and works of blue-collar, African American artists Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley are documented in this true story of outsider art, ego, exploitation, and race.
Miami, FL: Board of County Commissioners, c1945. Folded Letter.
New York: Harmony Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The first African American rock-and-roll star to reach a mass audience discloses details of his intimate life and tells the story of his imprisonment at the peak of his career for violation of the.....
Cambridge and London: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2012. 2nd Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Slaves and Liberators looks at the political implications of the representation of Africans, from the earliest discussions of the morality of slavery, through the rise of abolitionism, to the imposition of European.....
Cambridge and London: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2012. 2nd Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Black Models and White Myths examines the tendentious racial assumptions behind representations of Africans that emphasized the contrast between "civilization" and "savagery" and the development of so-called scientific and ethnographic racism. These.....
New York: Literary Guild, (Harpers), 1931. Illustrations by J.J. Lankes. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The story based on the Ballad of John Henry, the "steel-drivin' man"; based on the African-American folk hero. It was made into a Broadway play and later a musical featuring Paul Robeson in the title.....
New York: Basic Books, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. By focusing on purely symbolic gestures, Kennedy missed crucial opportunities to confront the obstructionist Southern bloc and to enact genuine reform. Kennedy's inertia emboldened white supremacists, and forced discouraged black activists to adopt increasingly militant tactics. At.....
Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Nathaniel Pereira, son of a New York Jewish merchant, gets dispatched to revive an uncle's South Carolina plantation, but his story is derailed by the interspersed accounts of several generations of women driven from slavery.....
New York: Praeger, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Conti and Stetson provide an admirable summation and instructive commentary. [ National Review].
New York: Faulkner Books, 1986. A Fine Soft cover. In this landmark work on the Black economic condition, Theodore Cross shows why the distribution of power in American society has become the single issue of overriding importance to the upward progress of Black Americans.This important and original work is devoted.....
Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Nella Larsen (1891-1964) is recognized as one of the most influential, and certainly one of the most enigmatic, writers of the Harlem Renaissance. With the instant success of her two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), she became a......
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2001. Illustrated by Shane W. Evans. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Bintou wants braids. Long, pretty braids, woven with gold coins and seashells, just like her older sister and the other women in her family. But she is too.....
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. One of the first influential Black poets in American literature and was internationally acclaimed for his dialectic verse. Dunbar’s literary body is regarded as an impressive representation of.....
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. Decorated cloth hardcover. Authentic-feeling Southern dialect of an earlier day.Background Information:One of the first influential Black poets in American literature and was internationally acclaimed for his dialectic verse. Dunbar’s literary body is.....
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Marvin Dunn chronicles anti-black violence in Florida, a state that is perceived by the general public to have not been part of the Deep South, and to have possessed more benign race.....
USA: 1st Book Library, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Softcover. This is the true crime story of the famous Florida murder case in which a wealthy African-American wife murders her white physician and senator elect lover in the Segregationist South. It contains a novella recounting the story and.....
New York: Penguin Random House, 2018. A Fine Hardcover. Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.Invisible Man first published by Random House in 1952, addresses many of the social and intellectual.....
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous …. and under-examined ….. biracial murders in American history. This groundbreaking work reads like a......
Oakland: Black Scholar Press, 1991. Soft cover. Using excellent scholarship, political scientist Henry presents a thorough analysis of Jackson's involvement in the two most recent presidential campaigns, focusing on his messages in the context of the black political experience.He discusses the black preacher genre, offers comparisons of the King and.....
Los Angeles: Daystar Pub Co., 1991. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Soft cover. Reviews and commentary on Films with Black Actors with brief bios.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. A Fine Softcover. Confederate Emancipation offers an engaging and illuminating account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it firmly and vividly in the context of the Civil War and the part played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions.....