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Articles
1-100 out of 100 article(s)
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| Holt Releases New African American Literature Text Filled with Diverse Selections Ranging from Oral Epics to Contemporary Hip Hop. |
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Dec 18, 2007 |
406 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
743 |
| Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy. |
Staples, Cynthia E. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1581 |
| Hard labor: scholars chronicle the relationship of African Americans to unions and the industrialization of America. |
Crum, Dana |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1279 |
| Worlds of change: the latest scholarly works for fall and winter release. |
Jamison, Sandra L. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1457 |
| "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 |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1956 |
| Urban lit goes legit: authors headline new ventures to bring street cred into the world of corporate publishing. |
Young, Earni |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
2250 |
| Selected titles: here are brief takes on some recent novels and nonfiction books by independent authors. |
Grimes, Lisa |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
461 |
| Well, it can't hurt ... does the New York Times best-seller list matter for black books? |
Dawkins, Wayne |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
1527 |
| 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 |
| Beloved beloved. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2006 |
576 |
| The art of Tom Dent: notes on early evidence. |
Ward, Jerry W., Jr. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
3419 |
| The conspiracy of masculinity in Ishmael Reed. |
Strombeck, Andrew |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
7278 |
| "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in Antebellum African American slave narratives. |
Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
8830 |
| "In the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man. |
Schmidt, Tyler T. |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
6654 |
| Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. |
Dagbovie, Sika Alaine |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
10732 |
| "A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula. |
Fulton, Lorie Watkins |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
6967 |
| "The Nellie Tree," or, disbanding the Wheatley Court. |
Rutledge, Gregory |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
15882 |
| Nellie McKay--a memorial. |
Moody, Joycelyn |
Editorial |
Mar 22, 2006 |
20931 |
| Between mission and message: just how Christian is this "Christian fiction"? |
Sanders, Alvelyn J. |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
2108 |
| Just the facts: reference works on African Americans are foundations of a good home library. |
Carter, Zakia |
Bibliography |
Jan 1, 2006 |
1341 |
| Dual heritage: new resources offer clues to the hidden legacy of Afro-Native American kinships. |
Meeks, Nia Ngina |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
1377 |
| What might have been: where research ends and imagination takes over in fiction. |
Southgate, Martha |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1290 |
| Retail report--2005: Florida bookseller comes full circle, as others take off in new directions. |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1245 |
| The city that reads together ... as "One Book" programs mushroom, so do sales for a select few African American authors. |
Young, Earni |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1405 |
| 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. |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1497 |
| University presses just keep on rollin': a roundup of fall and winter releases from the halls of academia. |
Jamison, Sandra L. |
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Sep 1, 2005 |
1254 |
| Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books. |
Meeks, Nia Ngina |
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May 1, 2005 |
880 |
| BIBR best of 2004. |
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Nov 1, 2004 |
1536 |
| Genesis Press teams with Kensington. |
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Brief Article |
Nov 1, 2004 |
64 |
| "Passing on" death: stealing life in Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Aguiar, Sarah Appleton |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
4294 |
| Hard-boiled black easy: genre conventions in A Red Death. |
Gray, W. Russel |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
5728 |
| Inverting history in Octavia Butler's postmodern slave narrative. |
Steinberg, Marc |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
6044 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| National socialism and blood-sacrifice in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain. |
Thompson, Mark Christian |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
13695 |
| "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 |
| 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 |
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Sep 1, 2004 |
1892 |
| A short history of contemporary black erotic fiction: the best of black erotic literature since 1992 reveals as much about our souls and how they connect as it does about how we entangle and unite our bodies. |
Carroll, Denolyn |
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Sep 1, 2004 |
821 |
| Blue-ribbon choices: a librarian-recommended, kid-approved summer reading list. |
Jeter, Chrystal Carr |
Bibliography |
Jul 1, 2004 |
1128 |
| Other titles of interest. |
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Bibliography |
Jul 1, 2004 |
169 |
| Atlanta's August Book Club confab: Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference convenes for its second year. |
Houser, Pat |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
595 |
| Ten years of sizzling chocolate kisses and lasting love: now under BET Books, Arabesque celebrates a decade as black romance publisher. |
Patrick, Diane |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
1365 |
| How to market black gay and lesbian books: Southern California's Matais Books relies on the power of community and the appeal of a literary salon. |
Pouncil, Matais |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
923 |
| Documenting a black gay and lesbian literary canon: for four years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has been compiling an archive from underground, small press and self-published work--and the rest is history in the making. |
Wright, Kai |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
583 |
| High season for book fairs and festivals: Midsummer's Harlem Book Fair highlights a year-round calendar of events. |
Davis, Bernadette Adams |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
1075 |
| 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. |
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Bibliography |
Jul 1, 2004 |
3837 |
| To everything a season. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2004 |
612 |
| Cultural rhythms of summer reading. |
Cox, William E. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2004 |
457 |
| 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 |
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May 1, 2004 |
1136 |
| Cutting out the middlemen. |
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Brief Article |
May 1, 2004 |
83 |
| Known world. |
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Brief Article |
May 1, 2004 |
37 |
| "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 |
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Mar 1, 2004 |
1241 |
| The African American book fair. |
Rust, Suzanne |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
450 |
| Just Us Books 15th anniversary. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
171 |
| Black history for the young: books recommended for every age that teach about our heritage. |
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Bibliography |
Jan 1, 2004 |
1030 |
| Readers & writers, ink: contributors to an anthology create an alliance. |
Houser, Pat |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
706 |
| Precocious kid authors: three youthful writers make their own successful way into print. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
654 |
| 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 |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
1101 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
1403 |
| 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 |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
882 |
| The Harlem cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from the Abyssinian Baptist Church. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
51 |
| The Sistah Circle Book Club[R]: an African American women's book club. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
67 |
| Return to romance. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
118 |
| Hip-hop lit. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
274 |
| Rumors of Grace: white masculinity in Pauline Hopkins's contending forces. |
McCoy, Beth |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
7681 |
| Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication. |
Rothberg, Michael |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
9819 |
| The trials and triumphs of American literature. |
Fleming, Robert |
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Sep 1, 2003 |
2385 |
| Banned somewhere in the U.S.A.: many African American classics are consigned to another insidious "black list". |
Reynolds, Clarence V. |
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Sep 1, 2003 |
808 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
712 |
| Fiction for the faithful: Denise Stinson's imprint, Walk Worthy Press, stakes out a future for Christian fiction. (faith). |
Stanley, Kathryn V. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
594 |
| The brothers Karibu: from street sales to a five-store chain. (market buzz). |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
708 |
| Spoken words: storytelling festivals continue the griot tradition. |
Simmons, Judy D. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
874 |
| A song with a story of its own: scholar Cecil Brown's search for the oft-sung exploits of Stagolee underscores the indelible power of our oral culture. (Bibliomane). |
Dodson, Angela P. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
1170 |
| Home on my mind: novels about special places in our history. (Fiction). |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
2908 |
| The first to know: Orlando, Florida, reader wins $10,000 when she figures out who killed Tiffany Jones. |
Townes, Glenn |
Brief Article |
Jul 1, 2003 |
412 |
| Interactive marketing the old-fashioned way: publisher applies contest strategy to sell African American mystery. |
Townes, Glenn |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
435 |
| Erotica--his and hers. |
Bashir, Samiya A. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
1606 |
| Sometimes funny, but most times deadly serious: Amiri Baraka as political satirist. |
Davidson, Jiton Sharmayne |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2003 |
4137 |
| The space machine: Baraka and science fiction. |
Youngquist, Paul |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2003 |
6615 |
| 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 |
| Langston Hughes's "Mississippi--1955": a note on revisions and an appeal for reconsideration. |
Metress, Christopher |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
5350 |
| Master-slave dialectics in Charles Johnson's "The Education of Mingo". |
Selzer, Linda |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
6126 |
| Truth in timbre: Morrison's extension of slave narrative song in Beloved. |
Capuano, Peter J. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
5175 |
| "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. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
8132 |
| Transgressing race and community in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go. |
Itagaki, Lynn M. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
11141 |
| Richard Wright's Lawd Today! And the political uses of modernism. |
Costello, Brannon |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
8623 |
| "This strange communion": surveillance and spectatorship in Ann Petry's The Street. |
Hicks, Heather |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
11148 |
| Other nature: resistance to ecological hegemony in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman. |
Myers, Jeffrey |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
10199 |
| 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 |
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Jan 1, 2003 |
1775 |
| Awards. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2003 |
222 |
| An abiku-ogbanje Atlas: a pre-text for rereading Soyinka's Ake and Morrison's Beloved. |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
9532 |
| Re-imagining agency: Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Michael, Magali Cornier |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
11567 |
| Golden gray and the talking book: identity as a site of artful construction in Toni Morrison's Jazz. |
Brown, Caroline |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
8261 |
| Crossing Western space, or the HooDoo detective on the boundary in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. |
Swope, Richard |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
11100 |
| "Illuminating the darkened corridors": an interview with Alexs Pate. |
Link, Katherine |
Interview |
Dec 22, 2002 |
8468 |
| Performance pedagogies for African American literature: Teaching Shange at Ole Miss. |
Young-Minor, Ethel |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
4758 |
| Other works received. |
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Bibliography |
Sep 22, 2002 |
8499 |
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