Sept, 30, 2008

Issue XIX

Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) (Hardcover) by Anita Patterson (Author) listAnita Patterson is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University.

Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora (African Expressive Cultures) (Hardcover) by Henry John Drewal (Author)

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African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reaching early high points with slave narratives and the Harlem Renaissance, and continuing today with authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Walter Mosley being ranked among the top writers in the United States. ....(Read More)

Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America (Commonwealth Center Studies in American Culture) (Hardcover) by Grey Gundaker (Author)

Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories (Hardcover) by Genevieve W. Chandler (Author), Charles W. Joyner (Foreword), Kincaid Mills (Editor), Genevieve C. Peterkin (Editor), Aaron McCollough (Editor)

African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (Paperback) by Herbert S. Klein (Author), Ben Vinson (Author)

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution (Hardcover) by T. J. English (Author)

Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 (Hardcover) by Kristin Mann (Author)

Ain't I a Feminist?: African American Men Speak Out on Fatherhood, Friendship, Forgiveness, and Freedom (Hardcover) by Aaronette M. White (Author)

The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (Hardcover) by Sheryll Cashin (Author)

Money In the House: Campaign Funds and Congressional Party Politics (Transforming American Politics) (Paperback) by Marian Currinder (Author)

Mistaking Africa: Curiosities and Inventions of the American Mind, Second Edition (Paperback) by Curtis A Keim (Author)

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Hardcover) by Douglas A. Blackmon (Author)

Swahili (World Languages) (Paperback) by Living Language (Author)

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