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Articles
1-100 out of 100 article(s)
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Author |
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Date |
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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 |
| Dates to circle. |
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Calendar |
Nov 1, 2007 |
51 |
| History by the handful. |
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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. |
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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 |
| 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. |
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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 |
| Dominican heroines of a new era. |
Martinez, Elizabeth C. |
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Mar 1, 2006 |
410 |
| 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 |
| Great gold streamers of light. |
O'Grady, Desmond |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1888 |
| 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 |
| Tapping the groundwaters. |
Marsh, Molly |
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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. |
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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 |
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May 1, 2005 |
880 |
| Philip Roth's populist Nightmare. |
Schweber, Matthew S. |
Critical Essay |
Jan 1, 2005 |
4616 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
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Sep 1, 2004 |
1892 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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. |
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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 |
| "A kind of queer balance": Cherrie Moraga's Aztlan. |
Tatonetti, Lisa |
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Jun 22, 2004 |
7724 |
| "Puerto Rican negro": defining race in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets. |
Caminero-Santangelo, Marta |
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Jun 22, 2004 |
8951 |
| White family values in Ann Petry's Country Place. |
Dubek, Laura |
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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 |
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May 1, 2004 |
1136 |
| Known world. |
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Brief Article |
May 1, 2004 |
37 |
| America--c'est moi! Alfred Kazin on American literature. |
Kramer, Hilton |
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Apr 1, 2004 |
2043 |
| Artistic creativity, form, and fictional experimentation in Filipina American fiction. |
Grice, Helena |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| 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. |
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Brief article |
Jan 1, 2002 |
99 |
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