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  • Teaching African American Literature

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Maryemma Graham, Sharon Pineault-Burke, Marianna White Davis ...
    Series series Transforming Teaching
    This book is written by teachers interested in bringing African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories & pedagogical. ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • But Some of Us Are Brave

    Black Women's Studies

    by Brittney C. Cooper ...
    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Framing Blackness

    The African American Image in Film

    by Ed Guerrero ...
    Series series Culture And The Moving Image
    From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks.These ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Black American Cinema

    Edited by Manthia Diawara ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ...
    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Sonic Color Line

    Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

    by Jennifer Lynn Stoever ...
    Series Book 17 - Postmillennial Pop
    The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Building Houses out of Chicken Legs

    Black Women, Food, and Power

    by Psyche A. Williams-Forson ...
    Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Boys Don't Cry?

    Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.

    Edited by Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis ...
    We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Reading Rape

    The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

    by Sabine Sielke ...
    Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and "realist" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels to ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Race and the Literary Encounter

    Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Edited by Sandra G. Shannon, Sandra L. Richards ...
    Series Book 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Read more

    $53.57 CAD