4,891円 Reproductive justice debates have often focused on the right to not have children, but rarely do they address the right to remember children lost to violence. Turning her attention to visual and written works by Black women documenting mother–child separation, Mali D. Collins invites us to deploy...

0円 Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds. As today’s world becomes increasingly hostileーwith the rising cost of food coupled with global warming’s devastating impactーwe are in need of a feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. Black feminist mothering may well be the reme...

6,618円 Inquiry into African American literature in recent decades has neglected to probe the intellectual structure of the tradition’s aesthetics and its underlying ideology. In The Ideological Origins of African American Literature, Phillip M. Richards begins this reconstructive work, illuminating the ...

1,450円 It has been four years since the notorious serial killer Mackenzie "Kenzie" Williams, known back then by the pseudonym "Dark Star", ravaged countless police departments across the continental United States, all in a misguided pursuit of justice for the destruction of her hometown. Since then, her...

5,300円 An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism This book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the “New Negro,” charting how generations of thinkers debated i...

200円 A journey into the heart of Africa… and the abyss of the human soul. In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad delivers one of the most haunting and influential novellas ever written. Follow Marlow, a steamboat captain navigating the Congo River, as he searches for the mysterious ivory trader Kurtzーa ...

3,973円 In Foremother Love, Dana Murphy examines the importance of eighteenth-century poet Phillis Wheatley as a foundational figure for Black feminist criticism. Murphy establishes Phillis (as she refers to her) as a writer who wrote in response to and in conversation with other creators as well as a cr...

4,222円 Precarious Passages unites literature written by members of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian," "Black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," this book takes an integrative approach: it argues that fictio...

3,947円 Canadian Association for American Studies Robert K. Martin Book Prize Analyzing slave narratives, emigration polemics, a murder trial, and black-authored fiction, Andrea Stone highlights the central role physical and mental health and well-being played in antebellum black literary constructions o...

4,230円 How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city’s material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmop...

3,947円 Investigating why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be appreciated years after her death  "Genevieve West's impressive new study clearly documents the course of Zora Neale Hurston's remarkable literary career and her rise from near obscurity at the time of her death...

3,611円 While there is no lack of scholarship on the trans-Atlantic voyage and the Middle Passage as tropes in African diasporic writing, to date there has not been a comprehensive analysis of bodies of water in African American literature and culture. In Water and African American Memory, Anissa Wardi o...