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Discourse in Black
Publication Date: January 2025
Through all three of the essential works in this compendium, Gilyard has nourished American literary and rhetorical discourse with a reframing of topics and conversations spanning language, culture, and educational praxis.
"Black People Are My Business"
Publication Date: September 2020
"Black People Are My Businessis a wonderful addition to any reader's list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.
Beyond Blaxploitation
Publication Date: November 2016
Beyond Blaxploitation is a much-needed pedagogical tool, informing film scholars, critics, and fans alike, about blaxploitation's richness and complexity.
Blackness Is Burning
Publication Date: October 2016
Blackness Is Burning's interdisciplinary reach is what makes it a vital component to nearly any scholar's library, particularly those with an interest in African American popular culture, film and media studies, or psychoanalytic theory.
Bearing Witness to African American Literature
Publication Date: May 2012
Bearing Witness to African American Literature will be an invaluable introduction to major issues in the African American literary tradition for scholars of American, African American, and cultural studies.
If We Must Die
Publication Date: June 2011
African Amerian studies scholars and those interested in race in contemporary American culture will appreciate this thought-provoking volume.
Birth of a Notion; Or, the Half Ain't Never Been Told
Publication Date: May 2010
Anyone interested in poetry, American history, and African American studies will appreciate Birth of a Notion.
Dear Chester, Dear John
Publication Date: February 2008
Students and teachers of African American literature will enjoy this one-of-a-kind volume.
Contact Zones
Publication Date: January 2008
This volume will be a welcome addition to the libraries of scholars and students of film studies and Africana studies.
Your Average Nigga
Publication Date: March 2007
Scholars and teachers of rhetoric, performance studies, and African American studies will enjoy this insightful volume.
A Different Image
Publication Date: September 2004
A CD featuring selected readings from each poet's work accompanies the text.
Liberation Memories
Publication Date: April 2003
His life and literary production can be partly characterized, Gilyard suggests, by the African American jeremiad—a major rhetorical form in the Black intellectual tradition expressing faith that America’s destiny is to become an authentic, pluralistic democracy.
Race and Ideology
Publication Date: September 1999
Race and Ideology offers provocative ideas that must be confronted if we are to construct an understanding of racism that can be useful for social change.
