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You Dont Know Us Negroes
And Other Essays
Av Genevieve West, Zora Neale Hurston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
373 kr
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily , Business Insider , Marie Claire, The Seattle Times , Lit Hub , Bustle , and New York Magazines Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of …
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Av Genevieve West, Zora Neale Hurston m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily , Business Insider , Marie Claire, The Seattle Times , Lit Hub , Bustle , and New York Magazine’s Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of …
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Av Genevieve West, Jr. Henry Louis Gates m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
204 kr
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Zora Neale Hurston Essays has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
Av Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Hollis Robbins
E-bok, 2017
108 kr
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A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR ''s Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its …
Signifying Monkey
A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
E-bok, 2014
244 kr
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Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly original," Henry Louis Gates, Jr.''s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the African and …
Finding Oprah's Roots
Finding Yours
E-bok, 2007
179 kr
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Finding Oprah’s Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributions made by history’s unsung but also equip them with the tools to connect to pivotal figures in their own past. A roadmap through the intricacies of public documents and online databases, the book also …
In Search of Our Roots
How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
E-bok, 2009
234 kr
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Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country’s shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a …
Our Nig
or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Av Harriet E. Wilson, Jr. Henry Louis Gates
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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With a New Preface, Introduction, and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New Afterword by Barbara White A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the slave narrative, Our Nig , apart from its historical significance, is a deeply ironic and highly …
Colored People
E-bok, 2011
211 kr
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From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.
Future of the Race
Av Cornel West, Jr. Henry Louis Gates
E-bok, 2011
92 kr
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Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois''s most prominent …
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
E-bok, 2011
216 kr
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"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as ''narratives of ascent.''" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that …
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
E-bok, 2017
164 kr
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From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of curiosities regarding African Americans. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World …
Stony the Road
The Fall of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow
E-bok, 2019
33 kr
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A compelling, visually dramatic rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War, from the hopes of Reconstruction to the violent counter-revolution that overthrew it to the long shadow cast by Jim Crow that still haunts us today. The abolition of slavery in the …
Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave
Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape
Av John Thompson, Jr. Henry Louis Gates m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
244 kr
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The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vessel John Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, …
Twelve Years a Slave
Av Solomon Northup, Jr. Henry Louis Gates
E-bok, 2012
83 kr
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Now the major motion picture that won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyong’o, and directed by Steve McQueen Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest …
Iola Leroy
Av Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Jr. Henry Louis Gates
E-bok, 2010
108 kr
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A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend school, …
Portable Frederick Douglass
Av Frederick Douglass, Jr. Henry Louis Gates m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
129 kr
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A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick Douglass, letting us hear once more a necessary historical figure whose guiding voice is needed now as …
Black Literature and Literary Theory
E-bok, 2016
837 kr
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The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical …
Black Literature and Literary Theory
E-bok, 2016
818 kr
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The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical …
African Americans
Av Donald Yacovone, Jr. Henry Louis Gates
E-bok, 2013
272 kr
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the six-part, six-hour documentary of the same name. The series is the first to air since 1968 that chronicles the full sweep of 500 years of African American history, from the origins of slavery on the African continent and the …
Slave Narratives (LOA #114)
Library of America #114
Av Jr. Henry Louis Gates, William L. Andrews
E-bok, 2000
459 kr
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The ten works collected in this volume demonstrate how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition by expressing their in anger, pain, sorrow, and courage. Included in the volume: Narrative of the Most …
Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (LOA #68)
Av Frederick Douglass, Jr. Henry Louis Gates
E-bok, 2024
502 kr
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