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Articles 1-100 out of 100 article(s) Title Author Type Date Words African American historiography and community history preservation: a position paper. Fordham, Monroe Jan 1, 2009 594 Native Geography: Richard Wright's Work for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago. Hathaway, Rosemary Essay Mar 22, 2008 4628 A negative Utopia: protest memory and the spatio-symbolism of civil rights literature and photography. Trodd, Zoe Critical essay Mar 22, 2008 8164 Holt Releases New African American Literature Text Filled with Diverse Selections Ranging from Oral Epics to Contemporary Hip Hop. Dec 18, 2007 406 Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy. Staples, Cynthia E. Sep 1, 2006 1581 Flying off the shelves. Sep 1, 2006 743 Urban lit goes legit: authors headline new ventures to bring street cred into the world of corporate publishing. Young, Earni Sep 1, 2006 2250 "The most dangerous organization in America": forty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party, new books amplify the story of courage, martyrdom and futility. Beauford, Fred Sep 1, 2006 1956 Worlds of change: the latest scholarly works for fall and winter release. Jamison, Sandra L. Sep 1, 2006 1457 Hard labor: scholars chronicle the relationship of African Americans to unions and the industrialization of America. Crum, Dana Sep 1, 2006 1279 Selected titles: here are brief takes on some recent novels and nonfiction books by independent authors. Grimes, Lisa Jul 1, 2006 461 Beloved beloved. Dodson, Angela P. Editorial Jul 1, 2006 576 The new bestsellers: titles with ready-made audiences and mega-media support are delivering new challenges and rewards to publishers. Smikle, Ken Cover story Jul 1, 2006 1917 Well, it can't hurt ... does the New York Times best-seller list matter for black books? Dawkins, Wayne Jul 1, 2006 1527 "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in Antebellum African American slave narratives. Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 8830 The conspiracy of masculinity in Ishmael Reed. Strombeck, Andrew Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 7278 The art of Tom Dent: notes on early evidence. Ward, Jerry W., Jr. Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 3419 Nellie McKay--a memorial. Moody, Joycelyn Editorial Mar 22, 2006 20931 "The Nellie Tree," or, disbanding the Wheatley Court. Rutledge, Gregory Mar 22, 2006 15882 "A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula. Fulton, Lorie Watkins Mar 22, 2006 6967 Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. Dagbovie, Sika Alaine Mar 22, 2006 10732 "In the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man. Schmidt, Tyler T. Mar 22, 2006 6654 Dual heritage: new resources offer clues to the hidden legacy of Afro-Native American kinships. Meeks, Nia Ngina Jan 1, 2006 1377 Just the facts: reference works on African Americans are foundations of a good home library. Carter, Zakia Bibliography Jan 1, 2006 1341 Between mission and message: just how Christian is this "Christian fiction"? Sanders, Alvelyn J. Jan 1, 2006 2108 BIBR's best of 2005: a roundup of the year's best books from a bumper crop of new novels by seasoned African American talents, as well as noteworthy debuts. Nov 1, 2005 1497 The city that reads together ... as "One Book" programs mushroom, so do sales for a select few African American authors. Young, Earni Nov 1, 2005 1405 Retail report--2005: Florida bookseller comes full circle, as others take off in new directions. Osborne, Gwendolyn E. Nov 1, 2005 1245 What might have been: where research ends and imagination takes over in fiction. Southgate, Martha Nov 1, 2005 1290 University presses just keep on rollin': a roundup of fall and winter releases from the halls of academia. Jamison, Sandra L. Sep 1, 2005 1254 Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books. Meeks, Nia Ngina May 1, 2005 880 Genesis Press teams with Kensington. Brief Article Nov 1, 2004 64 "Try to refrain from that desire": self-control and violent passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western. Johnson, Michael K. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 11194 National socialism and blood-sacrifice in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain. Thompson, Mark Christian Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 13695 Not entirely strange, but not entirely friendly either: images of Jews in African American passing novels through the Harlem renaissance. Meyer, Adam Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6353 "Like a violin for the wind to play": lyrical approaches to lynching by Hughes, Du Bois, and Toomer. Banks, Kimberly Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 9182 Inverting history in Octavia Butler's postmodern slave narrative. Steinberg, Marc Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6044 Hard-boiled black easy: genre conventions in A Red Death. Gray, W. Russel Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 5728 "Passing on" death: stealing life in Toni Morrison's Paradise. Aguiar, Sarah Appleton Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 4294 It's urban, it's real, but is this literature? Controversy rages over a new genre whose sales are headed off the charts. Mingo, Yvette Sep 1, 2004 1892 Cultural rhythms of summer reading. Cox, William E. Editorial Jul 1, 2004 457 To everything a season. Dodson, Angela P. Editorial Jul 1, 2004 612 Hot summer reads: something hot, not too heavy: sizzling selections for summer: the books everybody will be reading and talking about this summer, or at least the ones the publishers hope will catch fire. Bibliography Jul 1, 2004 3837 Atlanta's August Book Club confab: Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference convenes for its second year. Houser, Pat Jul 1, 2004 595 Other titles of interest. Bibliography Jul 1, 2004 169 Known world. Brief Article May 1, 2004 37 The goings-on at the 2004 BookExpo: this year, all eyes and ears in the publishing industry will focus on Chicago, host city of BookExpo America. Green, Robin May 1, 2004 1136 "American Dream" classics for kids: the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Awards, now celebrating its 35th year, set a standard for African American literature for children. Atkins, Elizabeth Mar 1, 2004 1241 Return to romance. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 118 The Sistah Circle Book Club[R]: an African American women's book club. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 67 The Harlem cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 51 Black America's popular historian: Lerone Bennett Jr. almost retired after 50 years at Ebony. Now his next five books, like his first 10 works, will have to be written after hours, too. Dawkins, Wayne Jan 1, 2004 882 Guess who's coming to a theater near you? Only a few movies adapted from books by black authors make their way to the silver screen. A handful of intriguing projects now in development are poised to beat new and diversified paths through Hollywood. Ross, Michael E. Jan 1, 2004 1403 Blair Underwood goes for the greenlight: a six-year journey to develop and star in a film based on Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep catches fire in a partnership with an enthusiastic studio. Here's the story so far in bringing one popular black novel to the screen. McHenry, Susan Cover Story Jan 1, 2004 1686 To each, his or her own genre: five hot African American writers who are creating novels for every kind of popular taste. Davis, Bernadette Adams Jan 1, 2004 1101 Precocious kid authors: three youthful writers make their own successful way into print. Murray, Victoria Christopher Jan 1, 2004 654 Readers & writers, ink: contributors to an anthology create an alliance. Houser, Pat Jan 1, 2004 706 Black history for the young: books recommended for every age that teach about our heritage. Bibliography Jan 1, 2004 1030 Just Us Books 15th anniversary. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 171 The African American book fair. Rust, Suzanne Jan 1, 2004 450 Hip-hop lit. Dodson, Angela P. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 274 Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication. Rothberg, Michael Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 9819 Rumors of Grace: white masculinity in Pauline Hopkins's contending forces. McCoy, Beth Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 7681 Banned somewhere in the U.S.A.: many African American classics are consigned to another insidious "black list". Reynolds, Clarence V. Sep 1, 2003 808 The trials and triumphs of American literature. Fleming, Robert Sep 1, 2003 2385 Home on my mind: novels about special places in our history. (Fiction). Jul 1, 2003 2908 Baraka's bohemian blues. Gennari, John Critical Essay Jun 22, 2003 4284 Following the success of Kensington's Souls of My Sisters in 2000, Plume will publish Souls of My Brothers in September in 2003. (Deals). Jones, Mondella S. Brief Article May 1, 2003 56 "1 + 1 = 3" and other dilemmas: reading vertigo in Invisible Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon. Thomas, Valorie D. Mar 22, 2003 8132 Master-slave dialectics in Charles Johnson's "The Education of Mingo". Selzer, Linda Mar 22, 2003 6126 The big book push: from the King holiday through Black History Month, publishers do their biggest business in African-American books. But is it the best way to promote black literary culture? Irish-Underwood, Lesleigh Jan 1, 2003 1775 Performance pedagogies for African American literature: Teaching Shange at Ole Miss. Young-Minor, Ethel Dec 22, 2002 4758 "Illuminating the darkened corridors": an interview with Alexs Pate. Link, Katherine Interview Dec 22, 2002 8468 Crossing Western space, or the HooDoo detective on the boundary in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. Swope, Richard Dec 22, 2002 11100 Golden gray and the talking book: identity as a site of artful construction in Toni Morrison's Jazz. Brown, Caroline Dec 22, 2002 8261 An abiku-ogbanje Atlas: a pre-text for rereading Soyinka's Ake and Morrison's Beloved. Dec 22, 2002 9532 Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, Africa, and the "Darwinist trap". Japtok, Martin Critical Essay Sep 22, 2002 7834 Constructing childhood: the Christian Recorder and literature for black children, 1854-1865. Haywood, Chanta M. Sep 22, 2002 6891 Other works received. Bibliography Sep 22, 2002 8499 BIBR talks with Connie Briscoe. Green-Cary, Robin Interview Sep 1, 2002 895 Role reversal: Hollywood writers take their act from print to screen and vice versa. Kennedy, Lisa Jul 1, 2002 2182 The art of black writers collectives. Moore, Lenard D. Jul 1, 2002 2014 Spring cleaning, spiritual healing. (faith). Hunt, Sharita Editorial May 1, 2002 1956 Jailhouse bards. (self publishing). Murray, Victoria Christopher May 1, 2002 821 Events corner. Jones, Mondella S. Brief Article Mar 1, 2002 230 The new literary blackface. Jordan, Jennifer Mar 1, 2002 1350 Deals. (between the lines). Jones, Mondella S. Brief Article Nov 1, 2001 200 Solid gold: the Black Writers Alliance, formerly the African American Online Writers Guild, presented their 2001 Gold Pen Awards at a banquet held during the 2001 Black Writers Reunion and Conference in Dallas, Texas. Brief Article Nov 1, 2001 309 Jane Fonda buys half of Tinwood Books. (News). Brief Article Nov 1, 2001 71 Expatriate genius: a black man from America's heartland, Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) wandered from pre-med studies to prison to poverty and exile in Europe. Still, he became a writer's writer. (tribute). Lindsay, Tony Critical Essay Nov 1, 2001 1033 Connoisseurs, cognoscenti & collectors: black book enthusiasts are transforming their personal libraries into meaningful collections--and a few are finding gold in their sentimental attachments. Bowman, Elizabeth Atkins Nov 1, 2001 1422 After the success of their romance book imprint Arabesque, the first line of original African-American romance novels from a major publishing house, BET Books has launched Sepia, a bold new imprint featuring fiction from award-winning authors as well as new voices. Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 89 on the shelf. JONES, MONDELLA S. Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 189 A Brief History of African-American Mysteries. Lindsay, Tony Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 470 The Legacy of GHETTO PULP FICTION. Osborne, Gwendolyn Critical Essay Sep 1, 2001 1377 WHY HIP-HOP HEADS LOVE DONALD GOINES. Grant, Tracy Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 819 OLD SCHOOL MASTERS OF BLAXPLOITATION LIT. G.O. Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 807 Ebony Accents in the Ivory Tower. Dodson, Angela Sep 1, 2001 2421 Recent and Forthcoming Black-Interest Titles from University Presses. Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 833 Package Makes Perfect. Murray, Victoria Christopher Brief Article Sep 1, 2001 780