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Discourse in Black

Voices of the Self, Let's Flip the Script, and Liberation Memories

by Keith Gilyard

Series edited by Melba Joyce Boyd

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9780814351925

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

516 Pages

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.

The Promise of Language

A Memoir

by Keith Gilyard

Series edited by Melba Joyce Boyd

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814351949

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: January 2025

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

166 Pages

Each encounter brings clarity and a new lens through which to understand the world, revealing how language shapes our lives and how our lives shape language.

On Rhetoric and Black Music

by Earl H. Brooks

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814346488

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2024

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

232 Pages

Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public sphere.

Nothing Special

by Desiree Cooper

Illustrated by Bec Sloane

Price: $18.99

ISBN: 9780814349731

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2022

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

40 Pages

In the decades since, it has become a summer ritual for many black families to reverse the journey and return South for a visit to their homeplaces.

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

by Sam Greenlee

Introduction by Natiki Hope Pressley

Price: $19.99

ISBN: 9780814349571

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2022

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.

The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

by William Sanders Scarborough

Foreword by Henry Jr.

Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814332252

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2021

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

448 Pages

This book is indispensable to anyone interested in the history of intellectual endeavor in America, Africana studies and classical studies, in particular, as well as those familiar with the associations and institutions that welcomed and valued Scarborough.

"Black People Are My Business"

Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation

by Thabiti Lewis

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814344293

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2020

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

326 Pages

"Black People Are My Businessis a wonderful addition to any reader's list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.

The Politics of Black Empowerment

The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America

by James Jennings

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9780814323182

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2000

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

240 Pages

Based on interviews with Black and Latino activists in several big cities as well as on a review of the literature and the Black newspapers around the country, The Politics of Black Empowerment describes the characteristics of Black empowerment activism in America.

Race and Remembrance

A Memoir

by Arthur L. Johnson

Edited by Steve Palackdharry

Foreword by Samuel Cook

Introduction by Charles V. Willie

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814333709

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2008

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

288 Pages

Readers interested in African American social history and political organization will appreciate this unique and revealing volume.

Roses and Revolutions

The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall

by Dudley Randall

Edited by Melba Joyce Boyd

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814334454

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2009

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Students and teachers of African American literature as well as readers of poetry will appreciate this landmark volume.

If We Must Die

From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls

by Aimé J. Ellis

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814334133

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2011

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

African Amerian studies scholars and those interested in race in contemporary American culture will appreciate this thought-provoking volume.

From Bourgeois to Boojie

Black Middle-Class Performances

Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young

With Bridget Harris Tsemo

Illustrated by Jeanette Berry

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814334683

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2011

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

392 Pages

This insightful and diverse volume will be relevant to scholars of performance studies, African American studies, American literature, performative writing, and sociology, as well as creative writers and those interested in contemporary political discourse on race.

Keepin' It Hushed

The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric

by Vorris L. Nunley

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814333488

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2011

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

Rhetoricians and readers interested in African American life and culture will appreciate the cogent analysis in Nunley’s volume.

Your Average Nigga

Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity

by Vershawn Ashanti Young

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814332481

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2007

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

192 Pages

Scholars and teachers of rhetoric, performance studies, and African American studies will enjoy this insightful volume.

Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994

by Henry J. Pratt

Foreword by Annis Pratt and Faith Pratt Hopp

Preface by Ronald Brown

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814331729

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2004

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

216 Pages

Pratt—with additional material from Ronald Brown—examines how immigration, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights movement all nurtured this developing link between religion and politics, helping churches evolve into leadership roles within these metropolitan centers.

Bearing Witness to African American Literature

Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency

by Bernard W. Bell

Price: $32.99

ISBN: 9780814337141

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2012

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

352 Pages

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.

Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook

A James Boggs Reader

by James Boggs

Edited by Stephen M. Ward

Afterword by Grace Lee Boggs

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814332566

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 2011

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

416 Pages

Readers interested in political and ideological struggles of the twentieth century will find Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook to be fascinating reading.

The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young

Edited by Bill McGraw

Price: $8.99

ISBN: 9780814332603

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

104 Pages

Hit the road."

The Golden Underground

by Anthony Butts

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9780814333891

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2009

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

56 Pages

Fans of Butts’s previous work as well as general readers of poetry will enjoy this vital and insightful volume.

Just for a Thrill

Poems

by Geoffrey Jacques

Price: $19.99

ISBN: 9780814332900

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: November 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

We’re fortunate to have so galvanic a collection of Jacques’ poetry in an edition that promises to reach a wider audience."—From the foreword by Nathaniel Mackey

Dreaming Suburbia

Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture

by Amy Maria Kenyon

Price: $27.99

ISBN: 9780814332283

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2004

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

The perspectives of cultural history, American studies, social science, and urban studies give Dreaming Suburbia an interdisciplinary appeal.

Bobweaving Detroit

The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson

by Murray Jackson

Edited by Kathryne Lindberg-Jackson and Ted Pearson

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9780814331941

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2003

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

104 Pages

Readers of poetry and lovers of the arts, humanities, and athletics can recognize and join Jackson's conversations—his "bobweaving"— with Langston Hughes, Julius Caesar, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Archie Moore and Marianne Moore, William Shakespeare and Willie the Pimp, Coleman Hawkins and Coleman Young, Malcolm X and Malcolm Boyd.

Liberation Memories

The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens

by Keith Gilyard

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814330579

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2003

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

192 Pages

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.

The Concept of Self

A Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem

by Richard L. Allen

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814328989

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2001

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

224 Pages

The Concept of Self will interest students and scholars of African American studies, sociology and population studies.

Dear Chester, Dear John

Letters Between Chester Himes and John A. Williams

by Chester Himes and John A. Williams

Edited by Lori Williams

Foreword by Gilbert H. Muller

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780814333556

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 2008

Format: Hardcover

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

Students and teachers of African American literature will enjoy this one-of-a-kind volume.

When the Church Becomes Your Party

Contemporary Gospel Music

by Deborah Smith Pollard

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814332184

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 2008

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

240 Pages

Scholars of music and African American cultural studies will enjoy this intriguing volume.

What Mama Said

An Epic Drama

by Osonye Tess Onwueme

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814331415

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 2003

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

What Mama Said is a moving portrayal of the battle for human rights, dignity, compensation, and the right of a nation's people to control the resources of their own land.

Walkin' over Medicine

by Loudell F. Snow

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814327579

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 1998

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

328 Pages

Snow visited numerous pharmacies, grocery stores, and specialty shops in several major cities, accompanied families to church services, and attended weddings, baptisms, graduations, and funerals.

Tell It to Women

An Epic Drama for Women

by Osonye Tess Onwueme

Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814326497

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: March 1997

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

216 Pages

An ideologically and politically powerful work, Tell It to Women offers a critical discourse on the western feminist movement from an African traditional perspective, focusing attention on the often silenced issues of intra-gender politics and class inequities.

Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940

Edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9780814325803

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 1996

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

468 Pages

In the continuing rediscovery of writers and works from the Harlem Renaissance, this work serves as essential background for contemporary readers and is a valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship.

Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes

An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967

by Elaine Latzman Moon

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814324653

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 1993

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

408 Pages

By featuring the histories of blacks living in Detroit during the first six decades of the century, this unique oral history contributes immeasurably to our understanding of the development of the city.

The Roots of African American Drama

An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938

Edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian

Foreword by George C. Wolfe

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814321423

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: April 1992

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

456 Pages

Biographic information and a bibliographyof other plays follow each script, providing readers with added sources for study.

Voices of the Self

A Study of Language Competence

by Keith Gilyard and Melba Joyce Boyd

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814322253

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: July 1991

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

184 Pages

Encompassing the perspectives of both the "streetand the "academy,Voices of the Self presents an eloquent argument for cultural and linguistic pluralism in American public schools.

Ideology and Change

The Transformation of the Caribbean Left

by Perry Mars

Price: $25.99

ISBN: 9780814327692

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 1998

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

248 Pages

He identifies their role in Caribbean political culture and processes, the problems they face, and the strategies they employ toward political change within a hazardous political and social environment.

"Look for Me All Around You"

Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance

Edited by Louis J. Parascandola

Price: $36.99

ISBN: 9780814329870

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

472 Pages

This anthology of writers, with accompanying discussions about their works placed in the context of their own time, will be of interest to anyone examining the Harlem Renaissance and the larger Black and Caribbean contribution to cultural and political thinking.

Manipulating the Sacred

Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé

by Mikelle S. Omari-Tunkara

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9780814328521

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: October 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

She demonstrates how this manipulation provides Brazilian descendents of slaves with a sense of agency—with a link to their African heritage and a locus for resistance to the dominant Euro-Brazilian culture.

"Gettin' Our Groove On"

Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation

by Kermit E. Campbell

Price: $26.99

ISBN: 9780814329252

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 2005

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

216 Pages

Itself infused with the hip hop idiom and an engaging style free of academic jargon, Gettin’ Our Groove On presents a thorough and provocative contribution to cultural and rhetorical studies.

Looking Within/Mirar Adentro

Selected Poems/Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000

by Nancy Morejón

Edited by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

Translated by David Frye, Gabriel Abudu, Heather Rosario Sievert, Kathleen Weaver, Mirta Quintanales and Nancy Abraham Hall

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814330388

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 2002

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

376 Pages

One can find in her work the tensions between colonizer and colonized, dominator and dominated, and at the same time enjoy the sheer beauty of images depicting suffering, strength, and hope.

White Nationalism, Black Interests

Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community

by Ronald W. Walters

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814330203

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: August 2003

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

352 Pages

Walters's analysis of contemporary racial politics is uniquely valuable to scholars and lay readers alike and is sure to spark further public debate.

What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three

Four Plays by Ron Milner

by Ron Milner

Foreword by Amiri Baraka

Introduction by Woodie King Jr

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814329290

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2001

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

256 Pages

Four Plays will be of interest to students of the theater, theater scholars, and those interested in African American and American literature.

Caribbean Labor and Politics

Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley

Edited by Alma H. Young and Perry Mars

Price: $28.99

ISBN: 9780814332115

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 2004

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

312 Pages

The core contributions of these men are characterized in terms of their pivotal struggles towards the realization of what we term the "working class project."

Negroes with Guns

by Robert F. Williams

Foreword by Gloria House

Introduction by Timothy Tyson

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814327142

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 1998

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

128 Pages

Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, Negroes with Guns is a classic story of a man who risked his life for democracy and freedom.

Discarded Legacy

Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911

by Melba Joyce Boyd

Price: $23.99

ISBN: 9780814324899

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: June 1994

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

264 Pages

Boyd has successfully arranged Harper's work in a manner that connects our present to Harper's past and that re-envisions her consciousness.

Race and Ideology

Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture

Edited by Arthur K. Spears

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9780814324547

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: September 1999

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

248 Pages

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.

"Winds Can Wake up the Dead"

An Eric Walrond Reader

by Eric D. Walrond

Edited by Louis J. Parascandola

Price: $31.99

ISBN: 9780814327098

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: December 1998

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

352 Pages

This book restores Walrond to his proper place in the history of African American and Caribbean literature and is an essential reader for students of Black culture.

Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora

An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements

by Ronald W. Walters

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9780814321850

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: May 1997

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

456 Pages

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A History of the African American People

The History, Traditions, and Culture of African Americans

Edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Price: $28.95

ISBN: 9780814326978

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Publication Date: February 1997

Format: Paperback

Imprint: Wayne State University Press

208 Pages

Specially commissioned photographs of artifacts reveal the richness of cultural traditions, and hundreds of historic photographs and paintings enhance the work still further, creating a magnificent illustrated history.