African-American Studies
Featured Items
Lakota Woman
Paperback
ISBN: 0060973897
Relates the experiences of a Native American woman who grew up on a reservation and joined in the revolution for Native American rights during the 1960s and 1970s
Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
A Bedford Documentary Companion
Paperback
ISBN: 0312100817
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A unique supplement to one of the most important African American novels of this century. As Invisible Man chronicles the major moments of African American life during the first half of the twentieth century, this volume illuminates and contextualizes the novel with a collection of speeches, essays, folktales, historical analyses, photographs, and other cultural and historical documents.
Women of Hope
African Americans Who Made a Difference
School & Library
ISBN: 0590939734
Features photographs and biographies of thirteen African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, and Alice Walker
A Book of Love Poetry
Paperback
ISBN: 0195042328
Poets through the ages offer interpretations of love's changing moods and forms
Sugar in the Raw
Voices of Young Black Girls in America
Paperback
ISBN: 0517884976
In a collection of interviews, fifteen African American girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen share their thoughts on their lives, self-esteem, personal identity, values, race, and their dreams for the future
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Paperback
ISBN: 048628512x
African-American writer's pioneering novel parallels his own life, probes the psychological aspects of "passing for white," and examines the American caste and class system. Major contribution to American literature.
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Paperback
ISBN: 080784232x
Discusses how class, race, and gender shaped women's experiences in the South
The Hidden Wound
Paperback
ISBN: 0865473587
Argues that white racism has been detrimental to whites as well as Blacks, discusses the implications of slavery, and looks at the impact of slavery on the author's life
Jelly's Last Jam
Paperback
ISBN: 1559360690
Dramatizes the life of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer, and self-proclaimed inventor of jazz
When and Where I Enter
The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
2nd Edition Paperback
ISBN: 0688146503
Drawing on extensive research in speeches, diaries, letters, and other original sources, this interpretive history assesses the contributions of numerous uncelebrated Black women to the causes of political and sexual equality. Reissue.
