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1	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Souls of Black Folk more books like this by W E B Du Bois, PH.D. add to wishlist This fictionalized account of the life of aviatrix Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first female African-American to receive a pilot's license, is told through a series of poems/eulogies presented at her funeral by those who knew her or knew of her adventures, celebrating Coleman's achievements while informing readers of the circumstances of her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Omeros more books like this by Derek Walcott add to wishlist There are two currents of history in the author's poem, the visible history charted in events - the tribal losses of the American Indian and the tragedy of African enslavement - and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile. see all copies from $4.62! new only from $4.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Toni Morrison deals with the subject of race as it has appeared in American literature--which has, she claims, often shortchanged blackness in favor of the white majority. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Norton Anthology of African American Literature more books like this by Nellie Y McKay (Editor), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor), William L Andrews (Editor) add to wishlist Organized chronologically, this anthology of African-American literature brings together the work of 123 writers from 1746 to the present. This second edition features a varied selection of genres and a wealth of vernacular forms. see all copies from $11.00! new only from $59.38! \| SVS
6	Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Christmas more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist Maya Angelou describes her career as a singer and dancer in the 1930s and 1940s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness more books like this by Professor Paul Gilroy add to wishlist Gilroy argues that there is a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all these at once, a Black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something until now unnamed. see all copies from $16.65! new only from $18.07! \| SVS
8	Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston more books like this by Lucy Hurston add to wishlist One of the most beguiling and captivating figures of the 20th century, Zora Neale Hurston gained fame as a bestselling author, anthropologist, journalist, and playwright. An interactive package tracing Hurston's life, Speak see all copies from $22.83! new only from $29.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Norton Anthology of African American Literature more books like this by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist African-American writing in all genres is finally given its critical due as a legitimate literary tradition in its own right in the latest (and most talked-about) addition to the "Norton Anthology" series. Its publication, under the much publicized direction of general editors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie McKay, has conferred canonical status ... see all copies from $7.88! new only from $31.88! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader more books like this by Amiri Baraka, William J Harris (Editor), Imamu Amiri Baraka add to wishlist Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most comprehensive selection of Baraka's work to date, spanning almost 40 years of a brilliant, prolific, and controversial career, in which he has produced ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	This Bridge Called My Back more books like this by Cherrie L Moraga (Editor), Gloria E Anzaldua (Editor), Johnetta Tinker (Illustrator) add to wishlist This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. 65,000 copies in print. see all copies from $21.00!
12 view cover	The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism more books like this by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. add to wishlist Gates' 1,000 afterword will explore how Hip Hop is a logical extension of the signifying tradition. First edition copy: Henry Louis Gates,Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this ... see all copies from $4.32! new only from $14.27! \| SVS
13 view cover	Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels more books like this by Alexander Heidel add to wishlist Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient people of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. see all copies from $2.22! new only from $12.07! \| first editions \| SVS
14	This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color more books like this by Cherrie Moraga add to wishlist see all copies from $41.44!
15 view cover	Black Poets more books like this by Dudley Randall add to wishlist Covers black American poetry from the slave songs through the 1960's. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Narrative of Sojourner Truth more books like this by Sojourner Truth add to wishlist One of the most important documents of slavery ever written, this landmark in the literature of African-American women is the eloquent autobiography of a woman who became a pioneer in the struggles for racial and sexual equality. The spiritual, inspiring narrative bears witness to Sojourner Truth's 30 years as a slave in upstate New York. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Shadow and Act more books like this by Ralph Waldo Ellison add to wishlist A collection of incisive essays about race, the artist, and society. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays more books like this by Derek Walcott add to wishlist On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his ... see all copies from $3.01! new only from $6.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	On the Pulse of Morning more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou add to wishlist From the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman comes a beautifully packaged hardcover edition of the poem that captivated the nation and quickly became a national bestseller. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by Gwendolyn Brooks add to wishlist Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize, in 1950. This volume brings together the best of her work from three earlier books now out of print: A STREET IN BRONZEVILLE, ANNIE ALLEN and THE BEAN EATERS, as well as some previously unpublished poems. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank more books like this by James Campbell, LT add to wishlist After Gertrude Stein's "lost generation" left Paris, the Beats moved in, bringing James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsburg, and others together in a loose expatriate federation with outsider writers from Europe. This book chronicles the history of the milieu, focusing largely on the role black writers--and the hundreds of other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present more books like this by Arthur Paul Davis add to wishlist see all copies from $2.24! new only from $29.94! \| first editions
23 view cover	Black Imagination & the Middle Passage more books like this by Carl Pedersen (Editor), Maria Diedrich (Editor), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole, this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage ... see all copies from $3.27! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
24 view cover	Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition more books like this by Patricia Alveda Liggins Hill add to wishlist This comprehensive, chronological anthology of African and African American literature asserts that there is a distinctly black literary and cultural aesthetic, one that originated in the oral traditions of Africa and was kept alive during the American slavery experience. This text represents the centuries-long emergence of this aesthetic in ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $69.95!
25 view cover	African American Literature (Penguin Academics Series) more books like this by Keith Gilyard, Anissa Wardi add to wishlist African-American Literature is thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature. see all copies from $26.48! new only from $35.99! \| SVS

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