African-American Classics

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: NmaahcContribution by: Jessica B. HarrisContribution by: Albert LukasA celebration of African American cooking with 109 rec...

Reducere. "Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by ""New York Times ""bestselling author Nikki Giovanni" Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giov...

Nella Larsen's remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambit...

Francis Johnson Webb (March 21, 1828 - c. 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies...

Reducere. The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Publ...

Reducere. (Piano Large Works). One of the first African-American women composers to achieve national recognition. Sonata in E Minor won First Prize in the 19...

Reducere. An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnutt's story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for ...

Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner J...

Based on the Harvard thesis of DuBois-one of the great black intellectuals of American history-and incorporating analyses of national, state, and c...

Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With...

Reducere. The Souls of Black Folk, originally published in 1903, contains a number of groundbreaking essays on race and race relations by scholar and activis...

Reducere. Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Projec...

Reducere. Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Ada...

Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular bl...

Reducere. 136 songs of African-American slaves, collected and compiled a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, are presented here complete with thei...

Reducere. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 - March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights mo...

Reducere. This latest addition to the Queer Film Classics series pays tribute to ``Paris Is Burning, `` Jennie Livingston's brilliant and award-winning 1991 ...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery he became a national l...

The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers, " historical and contemporary, and also the authors o...

Reducere. Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first publ...

Reducere. Set against the seedy backdrop of 1960s Tangier, The Wrong People (1967) is the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday...

Reducere. Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885) was the 18th President of the United States (1869-1877) immediately after he had fought in thw Civil War as a Genera...

Reducere. A reputation as the town of shoes, booze and blues persists in St. Louis. But a fascinating history waits just beneath the surface in the heart of ...

Reducere. A reputation as the town of shoes, booze and blues persists in St. Louis. But a fascinating history waits just beneath the surface in the heart of ...

For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of ...

Reducere. DescriptionA superb collection of stories that captures the very soul of hunting. For hunters, listening to the accounts of kindred spirits recalli...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles W. ChesnuttIntroduction by: Eric J. SundquistNotes by: Eric J. SundquistThis novel is based on a historically accur...

Description" Trethewey's poems] dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago--to explore the huma...

Reducere. Black College Football: The Game That Time Forgot features everything you thought you knew and didn't know about Black College Football. It Black C...

Reducere. UP FROM SLAVERYThe autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twent...

Reducere. As Tarzan walked down the wild canon beneath the brilliant African moon the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage fre...

Reducere. Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several...

Reducere. "When you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will...

Reducere. "When you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will...

Reducere. A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Tim...