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Africana Studies
Literature and Poetry
Africana Studies Categories: Africana Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, History and Biographies, Labor and Politics, Language and Culture, Literature and Poetry, Theatre, Art, and Film
Africana Studies Series: African American Life Series
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Who's Jim Hines?By Jean Alicia Elster A look at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12. Price: $12.95L (Paper) | |||
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Pilgrim JourneyBy Naomi Long Madgett The intimate and detailed autobiography of Naomi Long Madgett, award-winning poet and poet laureate of Detroit. Price: $35.00L (Cloth) | |||
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Just for a Thrill
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Look for Me All Around You
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A Different Image
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Who's Jim Hines? A look at issues of race in Depression-era Detroit for young readers, aged 8 through 12. |
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Pilgrim Journey The intimate and detailed autobiography of Naomi Long Madgett, award-winning poet and poet laureate of Detroit. |
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Just for a Thrill A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice. |
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Look for Me All Around You This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance. |
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A Different Image A collection of work from six of Broadside Press’s most influential poets during the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Bobweaving Detroit From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroit's glass-strewn streets and soaring high-rises, this collection is universal yet site-specific in its evocation of jazz and its improvisations on the classics. |
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Liberation Memories This first book-length study of John Oliver Killens aims to help secure his place in literary history and explores his creation of an inspiring Black vernacular art—one that ennobles people of African descent and urges their political liberation. |
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What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three The four Milner plays collected here —Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition —are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture. |
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Without Hatreds or Fears Without Hatreds or Fears is a study of Tambores en la noche (1940 ed.; 1955 ed.), two volumes of verse by Jorge Artel (1909-94), the principal poet of black expression in twentieth-century Colombia. |
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Winds Can Wake Up the Dead A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement. |
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