A History of African American Poetry, Hardcover - Lauri Ramey

DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-Americ...

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African-American poetry and art take wing and soar in this collection compiled by Belinda Rochelle.With work that spans the nineteenth century thro...

An anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with th...

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A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the pres...

DescriptionA vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have a...

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Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The...

Reducere. Explore Some of the Most Important Events and People in Black HistoryTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: African American History: A Captivati...

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African...

Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar...

When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading p...

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Publisher: Citadel Press Inc., U.S.Author(s): Michael L. LanningNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 226 x 28Cover type: Pap...

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