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  • Early African American Print Culture

    Edited by Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Early African American Print Culture

    Edited by Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... Read more

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  • Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Saidiya Hartman, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson ...
    The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Black Box

    Writing the Race

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book • Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Christian Gauss Award for Outstanding Books in Literary Scholarship“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning of African American identity, calling upon our country to transcend its ... Read more

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  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Pictures and Progress

    Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

    Edited by Maurice O. Wallace, Shawn Michelle Smith ...
    Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Benjamin Franklin

    Edited by David Waldstreicher ...
    Series Book 54 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin - the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders.Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplinesCombines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the fieldPays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, ... Read more

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  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    by Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... Read more

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

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  • Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville

    Essays in Relation

    Edited by Robert S. Levine, Samuel Otter ...
    Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the world. Yet they are rarely discussed together, perhaps because of their differences in race and social ... Read more

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  • A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass

    by Neil Roberts ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    "A splendid opportunity to rethink Douglass's political thought . . . relevant today given the discourse of white nationalism in the United States." — ChoiceFrederick Douglass was a writer and public speaker whose impact on America has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. ... Read more

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