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  • Invisible Ball of Dreams

    Literary Representations of Baseball behind the Color Line

    by Emily Ruth Rutter ...
    Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball ResearchAlthough many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering the story of segregation in baseball, a long history of tragedies and triumphs precede Robinson’s momentous debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From the pioneering Cuban Giants (1885-1915) to the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Blues Muse

    Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

    by Emily Ruth Rutter ...
    A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artistsThe Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly—and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Black Celebrity

    Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists

    by Emily Ruth Rutter ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media

    by Emily Ruth Rutter ...
    This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television.White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media examines the ways in which prominent figures such as Issa Rae, Spike Lee, Justin Simien, Jordan Peele, and Donald Glover centralize complex Black protagonists in their work ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Black Saturation

    Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson

    Edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin, E. Ethelbert Miller, Phillip M. Richards, Emily Ruth Rutter ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E. Henderson (1925–1997) examined the question: What makes a poem Black? In his critical approach, Henderson prioritized form but not at the expense of source, function, or context, and, in so doing, developed convincing theoretical frameworks for examining African American lyric expressions, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Specter and the Speculative

    Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

    by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, Diana Arterian, Christopher Giroux, Stella Setka, Meina Yates-Richard, Luis Omar Ceniceros, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Shamika Ann Mitchell0, Andrew R. Belton1, Kim White2, Sheila Smith McKoy3, Pekka Kilpeläinen4, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns5, Emiliano Aguilar6, Juan Ignacio Juvé7, Kajsa K. Henry8, McKinley E. Melton9, Emily Ruth Rutter0, Gene Melton II2 ...
    The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized, to establish an “afterlife” for African Atlantic identities and narratives. These essays focus on ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

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  • 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

    $38.00 USD

  • The Souls of Mixed Folk

    Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium

    by Michele Elam ...
    The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Why Black Men Love White Women

    Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter

    by Rajen Persaud, Karen Hunter ...
    Rajen Persaud brings a refreshingly honest voice to the highly controversial topic of interracial dating as he explores the stereotypes and perceptions associated with it.Why do so many high-profile black men date and marry the most ordinary white women? Why do so many other black men desire and covet the company of white women? And why does this subject deeply touch so many people of both races? ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Persistence of Whiteness

    Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

    Edited by Daniel Bernardi ...
    The Persistence of Whiteness investigates the representation and narration of race in contemporary Hollywood cinema. Ideologies of class, ethnicity, gender, nation and sexuality are central concerns as are the growth of the business of filmmaking. Focusing on representations of Black, Asian, Jewish, Latina/o and Native Americans identities, this collection also shows how whiteness is a fact ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Forty Million Dollar Slaves

    The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

    by William C. Rhoden ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An explosive and absorbing discussion of race, politics, and the history of American sports.”—EbonyFrom Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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