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Holt Releases New African American Literature Text Filled with Diverse Selections Ranging from Oral Epics to Contemporary Hip Hop. Dec 18, 2007 406
Dates to circle. Calendar Nov 1, 2007 51
History by the handful. Mar 1, 2007 832
Melancholia as resistance in contemporary African American literature. Tettenborn, Eva Critical essay Sep 22, 2006 7045
Editors' introduction: race, ethnicity, disability, and literature: intersections and interventions. James, Jennifer C.; Wu, Cynthia Editorial Sep 22, 2006 3751
Flying off the shelves. Sep 1, 2006 743
Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy. Staples, Cynthia E. Sep 1, 2006 1581
Hard labor: scholars chronicle the relationship of African Americans to unions and the industrialization of America. Crum, Dana Sep 1, 2006 1279
Worlds of change: the latest scholarly works for fall and winter release. Jamison, Sandra L. 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 Sep 1, 2006 1956
Urban lit goes legit: authors headline new ventures to bring street cred into the world of corporate publishing. Young, Earni Sep 1, 2006 2250
Selected titles: here are brief takes on some recent novels and nonfiction books by independent authors. Grimes, Lisa Jul 1, 2006 461
Well, it can't hurt ... does the New York Times best-seller list matter for black books? Dawkins, Wayne 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
A breed between: racial mediation in the fiction of Ernest Gaines. Hebert-Leiter, Maria Critical essay Jun 22, 2006 9137
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. Mar 22, 2006 6654
Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. Dagbovie, Sika Alaine Mar 22, 2006 10732
"A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula. Fulton, Lorie Watkins Mar 22, 2006 6967
"The Nellie Tree," or, disbanding the Wheatley Court. Rutledge, Gregory Mar 22, 2006 15882
Nellie McKay--a memorial. Moody, Joycelyn Editorial Mar 22, 2006 20931
Dominican heroines of a new era. Martinez, Elizabeth C. Mar 1, 2006 410
Between mission and message: just how Christian is this "Christian fiction"? Sanders, Alvelyn J. 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 Jan 1, 2006 1377
Great gold streamers of light. O'Grady, Desmond Nov 1, 2005 1888
What might have been: where research ends and imagination takes over in fiction. Southgate, Martha Nov 1, 2005 1290
Retail report--2005: Florida bookseller comes full circle, as others take off in new directions. Osborne, Gwendolyn E. 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 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. Nov 1, 2005 1497
Tapping the groundwaters. Marsh, Molly Nov 1, 2005 597
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
The shape of our despair: the fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Schilling, Timothy P. Critical Essay Jul 15, 2005 2128
Pynchon from A to V: Rocket redux; Gerald Howard on Gravity's Rainbow: Remembered, reread, reconsidered. Erickson, Steve Critical Essay Jun 22, 2005 15597
Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books. Meeks, Nia Ngina May 1, 2005 880
Philip Roth's populist Nightmare. Schweber, Matthew S. Critical Essay Jan 1, 2005 4616
Genesis Press teams with Kensington. 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
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri's interpreter of Maladies as a short story cycle. Brada-Williams, Noelle Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 5404
Ethnic outsider as the ultimate insider: the paradox of Verghese's My Own Country. Srikanth, Rajini Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6287
Going for the knockout: confronting whiteness in Gus Lee's China Boy. Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 5620
Bio-politics and the contamiNation of the body in Alejandro Morales' The Rag Doll Plagues. Priewe, Marc Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 5556
Racial discourse and Black-Japanese dynamics in Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring. Anderson, Crystal S. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6160
From narrow complaint to broad celebration: a conversation with Charles Johnson. Ghosh, Nibir K. Interview Sep 22, 2004 6330
Reading contests and contesting reading: Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker and ethnic New York. Lee, Rachel C. Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 4257
Race and ethnicity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and The Rise of David Levinsky: the performative difference. Rottenberg, Catherine Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 5349
Adah Isaacs Menken: race and transgendered performance in the nineteenth century. Barca, Dane Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 4344
Literatures of the Americas, Latinidad, and the re-formation of multi-ethnic literatures. Sugg, Katherine Sep 22, 2004 5438
Literature as engagement: teaching African American literature to Korean students. Kim, Myung Ja Critical Essay Sep 22, 2004 6424
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
Other titles of interest. 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 Jul 1, 2004 595
Writing while white ... An unprecedented number of black characters inhabit today's mainstream fiction best-seller lists, but few of them are created by black authors. Young, Earni Jul 1, 2004 1689
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
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
"A kind of queer balance": Cherrie Moraga's Aztlan. Tatonetti, Lisa Jun 22, 2004 7724
"Puerto Rican negro": defining race in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets. Caminero-Santangelo, Marta Jun 22, 2004 8951
White family values in Ann Petry's Country Place. Dubek, Laura Jun 22, 2004 8064
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
Known world. Brief Article May 1, 2004 37
America--c'est moi! Alfred Kazin on American literature. Kramer, Hilton Apr 1, 2004 2043
Artistic creativity, form, and fictional experimentation in Filipina American fiction. Grice, Helena Mar 22, 2004 6423
Domestic violence in the Harlem Renaissance: remaking the record in Nella Larsen's Passing and Toni Morrison's Jazz. Knadler, Stephen Critical Essay Mar 22, 2004 12167
"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
Mourning, masculinity and the drama of the American revolution. Henderson, Desiree Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 4889
Language of assent: republican rhetoric and metaphors of national redemption in American revolutionary drama. Detsi-Diamanti, Zoe Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 8986
The African American book fair. Rust, Suzanne Jan 1, 2004 450
Just Us Books 15th anniversary. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 171
Black history for the young: books recommended for every age that teach about our heritage. Bibliography Jan 1, 2004 1030
Readers & writers, ink: contributors to an anthology create an alliance. Houser, Pat Jan 1, 2004 706
Precocious kid authors: three youthful writers make their own successful way into print. Murray, Victoria Christopher 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 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. 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 Jan 1, 2004 882
The Harlem cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 51
The Sistah Circle Book Club[R]: an African American women's book club. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 67
Return to romance. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 118
Hip-hop lit. Dodson, Angela P. Brief Article Jan 1, 2004 274
Levels of disclosure: voices and people in Henry James's Italian Hours. Collister, Peter Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 9646
'While I waggled my small feet': Henry James's return to Paris. Bradbury, Nicola Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 4157
Tramps and tourists: Europe in Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad. Messent, Peter Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 8940
The Winning of the West: Washington Irving's A Tour on the Prairies. Reynolds, Guy Critical Essay Jan 1, 2004 6340
Rumors of Grace: white masculinity in Pauline Hopkins's contending forces. McCoy, Beth Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 7681
"I will gladly share with them my richer heritage": schoolteachers in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chesnutt's Mandy Oxendine. Jackson, Cassandra Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 9825
Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication. Rothberg, Michael Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 9819
Arab American literature: gendered memory in Abinader and Abu-Jaber. Cherif, Salwa Essayah Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 8285
Counter-discourses on the racialization of theft and ethics in Douglass's Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents. King, Lovalerie Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 10669
Hybridizing the "City upon a Hill" in Toni Morrison's Paradise. Fraile-Marcos, Ana Maria Critical Essay Dec 22, 2003 11715
Mark Twain sites: what's past, and passing, and to come. Brief article Jan 1, 2002 99

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