Books Received for Review
Below is a list, updated weekly, of new books available for review received by the Callaloo office. If you are interested in reviewing a book for Callaloo, please send an email with the subject "Callaloo Book Review" to the following book review editors with the name of the book and, if you have never written for us before, a copy of your CV.
For all poetry books and anthologies, email Aaron Van Jordan at: avanjordan@mac.com
For all Caribbean fiction and anthologies, email: Thomas Glave at: tglave@binghamton.edu
For all other book reviews and general queries, email Douglas Field at: D.J.Field@staffs.ac.uk. Our Book Review editors will respond to your query within two weeks. Tables are organized by genre, then alphabetically by author's last name. Titles highlighted in yellow are currently being reviewed. Titles highlighted in red have been reviewed for the current volume, so be sure to look for them in the next issue.
NEW!! Selections highlighted in blue are new arrivals! NEW!!
FICTION * NON-FICTION * POETRY * SCHOLARSHIP
FICTION
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
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| Ahmad, Dohra | Rotten English: A Literary Anthology | W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. | 2007 |
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| Anderson, Maggie and David Hassler | After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose about School | University of Iowa Press | 2007 |
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| A Motana, Nape | Fanie Fourie's Lobola | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2007 |
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| Baldwin, Edward M. | Learnt | Jazlo & Lossi Publishing | 2008 |
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| Baker, Calvin | Dominion | Grove Press | 2006 |
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| Bryce, Jane | Chameleon | Peepal Tree | 2007 |
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Brite, Poppy Z. |
Soul Kitchen |
Three Rivers Press |
2006 |
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| Chavez, Andrew | Shanidar Cave: A three-act verse play building on the discovery of the Neanderthal burial site at that Location | Authorhouse | 2008 |
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| Cohen, Blacher Sarah & Koch, Joanne B. | Shared Stages: Ten American Drama of Blacks & Jews | State University of New York Press | 2007 |
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| Coleman, Wanda | Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales | David R. Godine | 2008 |
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Collins, Julia C. |
The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride |
Oxford University Press |
2006 |
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| D | Cake: A Novel | The Armory c/o Akashic Books | 2008 |
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| Dabydeen, David | Molly and the Muslim Stick | MacMillan Caribbean | 2008 |
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| Danticat, Edwidge | Brother, I'm Dying (Advanced Copy) | Alfred A. Knopf | 2007 |
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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean | Peter Lang Publishing | 2007 |
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Three Dreams on Mount Meru | Toby Press | 2007 |
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| Dunbar, Tony | Tubby Meets Katrina: A Tubby Dubonnet Mystery | NewSouth Books | 2006 |
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| Evaristo, Conceicao | Poncia Vicencio | Host Publications | 2007 |
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| Everett, Percival | The Water Cure | Graywolf Press | 2007 |
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Farah, Nuruddin |
Sweet and Sour Milk |
Graywolf Press |
2006 |
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| Gauthier, Ronald M. | Crescent City Countdown | Jojo Press | 2007 |
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| Gwamna, Olabisi | Dancing with Shadows and Other Stories | Hamilton Books | 2008 |
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| Harmsen, Jolien | Rum Justice | MacMillan Caribbean | 2007 |
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A Daughter's Legacy | University of Kwa |
2007 |
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| Horne, Jed | Breach of Faith | Random House | 2006 |
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Jacobs, Thornwell |
The Law of the White Circle |
University of Georgia Press |
2006 |
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James, C.L.R. |
The Nobbie Stories for Children & Adults |
The University of Nebraska Press |
2006 |
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| James, G. Winston and Other Countries | Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Writing | Redbone Press | 2007 |
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| Lara, Ana-Maurine | Erzulie's Skirt | Redbone Press | 2006 |
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| Mahala, Siphiwo | When a Man Cries | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2007 |
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| Mahabir, Joy | Jouvert | Author House | 2006 |
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| Makuchi | The Sacred Door and other stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba | Ohio University Press | 2008 |
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Mama, Raouf |
Why Monkeys Live in Trees |
Curbstone Press |
2006 |
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| Markovits, Benjamin | Imposture | W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. | 2006 |
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| Miller, Kei | The Same Earth | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 2008 |
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| Mitchell, Emily | The Last Summer of the World | W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. | 2007 |
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| Mpe, Phaswane | Brooding Clouds | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2008 |
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| Neighbour, Mary E. | Speak Right On: Dred Scott, A Novel | Toby Press | 2006 |
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Nganang, Patrice |
Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle |
University of Virginia Press |
2006 |
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Nicholls, David G. |
Harlem Calling: The Collected Stories of George Wylie Henderson |
University of Michigan Press |
2006 |
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Nottage, Lynn |
Intimate Apparel, Fabulation: Two Plays |
Theatre Communications Group |
2006 |
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| Odum, Howard W. | Wings on my Feet: Black Ulysses at the Wars | Indiana University Press | 2007 |
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| Rahim, Jennifer | Songster and Other Stories | Peepal Tree | 2007 |
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| Rose, Joel | The Blackest Bird | W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. | 2007 |
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| Rhone, Trevor | Bellas Gate Boy | MacMillan Caribbean | 2008 |
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| Ruppersburg, Hugh and Inscoe, John C. | The New Georgia Encyclopedia, Companion to Georgia Literature | University of Georgia Press | 2007 |
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| Savoy, Willard | Alien Land | University Press of New England | 2006 |
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Simon, Peter |
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction (7th Ed.) |
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
2006 |
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| Whitt, Margaret Earley | Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement | University of Georgia Press | 2006 |
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Wilkinson, Crystal |
Water Street |
The Toby Press |
2006 |
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Wilson, August |
Gem of the Ocean |
Theatre Communications Group |
2006 |
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| Wimberley, Darryl | The King of Colored Town | Toby Press | 2007 |
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| Winkler, Anthony | The Duppy | Akashic Books | 2008 |
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| Zink, William | Ohio River Dialogues | Sugar Loaf Press | 2007 |
FICTION OUT FOR REVIEW
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year of Pub. |
Abouet, Marguerite & Oubrerie, Clement |
Aya |
Drawn & Quarterly |
2007 |
Berry, Jason et al |
Do you Know what it means to Miss New Orleans |
Chin Music Press |
2006 |
| Bishop, Jacqueline | The River's Song | Peepal Tree | 2007 |
| Brodber, Erna | The Rainmaker's Mistake | New Beacon Books | 2007 |
| Chariandy, David | Soucouyant | Arsenal Pulp Press | 2007 |
Codrescu, Andrei |
New Orleans, Mon Amour |
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill |
2006 |
| Larsen, Nella | Passing | W. W. Norton & Company | 2007 |
| King-Aribisala, Karen | The Hangman's Game | Peepal Tree | 2007 |
Nunez, Luis Manuel |
Santeria Stories |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
Pineau, Gisele |
Devil's Dance |
University of Nebraska Press |
2006 |
Prasad, Chandra |
Mixed |
W.W. Norton and Co. |
2006 |
NON-FICTION
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
| Abrahams, Leonard | Quilombo Country: Afrobrazilian Villages in the 21st Century & Quilombo Country Electronic Press Kit | Quilombo Films | 2007 |
| Abrahams, Roger, Nick Spitzer, John Szwed | Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2006 |
| Amoia, Alba and Knapp, Bettina | Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present | Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog | 2006 |
| Badger, Reid | A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
Baker, William J. |
Jesse Owens |
University of Illinois Press |
2006 |
| Bedard, Brian | South Dakota Review: Summer 2007 Issue | University of South Dakota Press | 2007 |
| Bixler, Mark | The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refuge Experience | University of Georgia Press | 2006 |
| Bontemps, Arna | Five Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, The Rev. G.W. Offley and James L. Smith | Wesleyan University Press | 2007 |
| Bourne, Richard | Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far | University of California Press | 2008 |
| Bower, Anne L. | African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
Brooks, Thomas |
A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Quest for Heritage, Reunion, and Enrichment |
Alpha Multimedia, Inc. |
2006 |
| Brothers, Thomas | Louis Armstrong's New Orleans | W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. | 2006 |
Buchmann-Moller, Frank |
Someone to Watch over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster |
University of Michigan Press |
2006 |
| Carretta, Vincent | Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man | Penguin Books | 2006 |
| Cooper, Afua | The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal | University of Georgia Press | 2007 |
| Danielsen, Anne | Presence and Pleasure: The Funk Grooves of James Brown and Parliament | Wesleyan University Press | 2006 |
| Dawes, Kwame | A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative | Peepal Tree |
2007 |
| Drexler, Michael J. | Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura (Lenora Sansay) | Broadview Press | 2007 |
| Evans, Joe with Christopher Brooks | Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
| Fischer, Klaus P. | America In White, Black, and Gray: A History of the Stormy 1960s | Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog | 2006 |
Franklin, John Hope |
Mirror to America |
FSG |
2006 |
Gardner, Eric |
Major Voices: The Drama of Slavery |
Toby Press |
2006 |
Garrett, George |
Going to see the Elephant: Pieces of a Writing Life |
Texas Review Press |
2006 |
Gillver, Peter and Marshall, Jerry |
The Ring of Words: Tolkein and the Oxford English Dictionary |
Oxford University Press |
2006 |
| Glasrud, Bruce & Searles, Michael | Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology | Texas A&M university | 2007 |
| Goodison, Lorna | From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island | Amistad Press | 2007 |
| Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein | They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Persuasive Writing | W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. | 2007 |
| Gussow, Adam | Journey's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post 9/11 New York | The University of Tennessee Press | 2007 |
Kandiuk, Mary |
Caribbean and South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bibliography of their Works and of English-Language Criticism |
The Scarecrow Press |
2007 |
| Kenney, David Ngaruri and Philip G. Schrag | Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America | University of California Press | 2008 |
| Klas, Rinaldo | Exchange Workshop between the Federation of Visual Arts in Suriname (FVAS) and the Amesterdam Graphic Atelier (AGA) - bilingual | FVAS/AGA | 2007 |
| Leach, Heather and Robert Graham | Everything You Need to Know About Creative Writing (but knowing isn't everything…) | Contiuum | 2007 |
Lemann, Nicholas |
Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War |
Farrar Straus Giroux |
2006 |
| Lemons, Gary L. | Black Male Outsider, A Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man | State University of New York Press | 2008 |
| Long, Robert Emmet | Writing: Working in the Theatre | Continuum | 2008 |
| Miller, Tyagan | Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church | Indiana University Press | 2007 |
Minges, Patrick |
Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery |
John F. Blair |
2006 |
Monroe, Gary |
Harold Newman: The Original Highwayman |
University Press of Florida |
2007 |
| Moya, Ana Gloria | Heaven of Drums [Translated by W. Nick Hill] | Curbstone Press | 2007 |
Owens, Emiel W. |
Blood on German Snow: An African American Artilleryman in World War II and Beyond |
Texas A&M University Press |
2006 |
| Parker, Shani Frances | Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes | Loving Healing Press | 2007 |
Peterson, Oscar and Palmer, Richard |
A Jazz Odyssey |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
| Powell, Richard J. et al. | Conjuring Beardon | Duke University Press | 2006 |
| Pritchett, James A. | Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu | University of Virginia Press | 2007 |
| Rampersad, Arnold | Ralph Ellison: A Biography | Knopf Press | 2007 |
| Rediker, Marcus | The Slave Ship: A Human History | Viking Press | 2007 |
| Ribane, Nakedi | Beauty . . . A Black Perspective | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2007 |
| Richmond, Theophilus | The First Crossing: Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond, ship's surgeon aboard the Hesperus, 1837-8 | The Derek Walcott Press | 2007 |
| Robinson, Edward J. | Show Us How You Do It: Marhall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968 | University of Alabama Press | 2008 |
Salvatore, Nick |
We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber |
University of Illinois Press |
2006 |
| Saunders, Patricia Joan | Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | 2007 |
Shannon, Mike |
Wille Mays: Art in The Outfield |
University of Alabama Press |
2007 |
| Shiva, Vandana | Manifestos on the Future of Food & Seed | South End Press | 2007 |
| Smalls, James | The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts | Temple University Press | 2006 |
| Solis, Gabriel | Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making | University of California Press | 2008 |
| Soto, Michael | Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies | Peter Lang | 2008 |
| Temple, Christel N. | Literary Spaces | Carolina Academic Press | 2007 |
Theisen, Olive Jensen |
A Life on Paper: The Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers |
University of North Texas Press |
2006 |
| Tidwell, John Edgar and Cheryl R. Ragar | Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Tucker, Linda G. | Lockstep and Dance: Images of Black Men in Popular Culture | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Tygiel, Jules | Baseball's Great Experiement: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Veal, Michael E. | DUB: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae | Wesleyan University Press | 2007 |
| Wald, Gayle | Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Beacon Press | 2006 |
| Waters, Kristin & Conaway, Carol | Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds | University Press of New England | 2007 |
| Wilderson, Frank B. III | Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid | South End Press | 2008 |
| Williams, Dana A. | Conversations with Leon Forrest | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Williams, Kristian | American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination | South End Press | 2006 |
| Williams, Oscar R. | George S. Schuyler: Portrait of A Black Conservative | The University of Tennessee Press | 2007 |
Wright, J. Lenore |
The Philosopher's "I": Autobiography and the Search for the Self |
State University of New York Press |
2006 |
NON-FICTION OUT FOR REVIEW
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year of Pub. |
Ballve, Teo & Prashad, Vijoy |
Dispatches from Latin America: On the Front Lines Against Neoliberalism |
South End Press |
2006 |
Broichhagen, Vera |
Feasting on Words: Maryse Conde, Cannibalism and the Caribbean Text |
Princeton University Press |
2006 |
| Callahan, Allen Dwight | The Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible | Yale University Press | 2006 |
De Veaux, Alexis |
Warrior Poet, A Biography of Audre Lorde |
W.W. Norton |
2006 |
Franco, Dean |
Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American Writing |
University of Virginia Press |
2006 |
Hartman, Saidiya |
Lose Your Mother: Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route |
North Point Press |
2007 |
| Jenkins, Candice M. | Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
Lori-Parks, Susan |
365 Days - 365 Plays |
Theatre Communications Group |
2006 |
McBride, Dwight A. |
Why I hate Abercrombie and Fitch |
New York University Press |
2005 |
Miles, Tiya & Holland, Sharon Patricia |
Crossing Water, Crossing Worlds |
Duke University Press |
2006 |
Moore, Natalie Y. & Hopkinson, Natalie |
Deconstructing Tyrone |
Cleis Press |
2006 |
| Pfeifer, Michael J. | Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society 1874-1947 | University of Illinois Press | 2006 |
| Salvatore, Nick | Singing In a Strange Land | University of Illinois Press | 2006 |
| Sklar, Katherine Kish and James Brewer Stewart | Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation | Yale University Press | 2007 |
| Tidwell, John Edgar | Writings of Frank Marshall Davis: A Voice of the Black Press | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Williams, John A. and Lori | Dear Chester, Dear John: Letters between Chester Himes and John A. Williams | Wayne State University Press | 2008 |
POETRY
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
Bar-Nadav, Hadara |
A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight |
Margie, Inc. |
2007 |
Bolz, Jody and Miller, E. Ethelbert |
Poet Lore (Vol. 101, No. 3/4) |
The Writer's Center |
2006 |
| Cavaliero, Glen | The Justice of The Night | Tartarus Press | 2007 |
| Chang, Tina, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar | Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond | W.W. Norton | 2008 |
| Chapman, Michael | Soweto Poetry: Literary Perspectives | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2007 |
| Chavez, Andrew | A Modern Romantic Odyssey: An epic poem presented in a straightforward and plainspoken manner | Authorhouse | 2008 |
| Clarke, Cheryl | The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980-2005 | Carrol and Graf Publishers | 2006 |
| Collins, Martha | Blue Front: a poem | Graywolf Press | 2006 |
| Cramer, Stephen | Tongue and Groove: Poems by Stephen Cramer | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
Cruz, Victor Hernandez |
The Mountain in the Sea |
Coffee House Press |
2006 |
Derricotte, Toi and Eady, Cornelius |
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade |
University of Michigan Press |
2006 |
Dunn, Stephen |
Everything Else in the World |
W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. |
2006 |
| Falola, Toyin & Bahl, Vivek | Scoundrels of Deferral: Poems to Redeem Reflection | Carolina Academic Press | 2006 |
| Finney, Nikky | The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South | University of Georgia Press | 2007 |
| Girmay, Aracelis | Teeth | Curbstone Press | 2007 |
| Gonzalez, Kevin A | The Night Tito Trinidad KO'ed Ricardo Mayorga | Momotombo Press | 2007 |
Grossman, Edith |
The Golden Age |
W.W Norton & Company, Inc. |
2006 |
| Hairston, Alena | The Logan Topographies | Persea Books | 2006 |
| Hamer, Forrest | Rift | University Press of New England | 2007 |
| Harrington, Janice | Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone | Boa Editions | 2006 |
| Hayes, Terrance | Muscular Music | Carnegie Mellon University Press | 2006 |
| Hayes, Terrance | Wind In A Box | Penguin Poets | 2006 |
| Hayes, Terrance | Hip Logic | Penguin Poets | 2006 |
| Howe, Marie | The Kingdom of Ordinary Time | W.W. Norton, Inc. | 2008 |
| Jack, Drisana Deborah | Skin | House of Nehesi Publishers | 2006 |
| Jackson, Linda Susan | What Yellow Sounds Like | Tia Chucha Press | 2007 |
| Jauregui, Gabriela | Controlled Decay | Black Goat | 2008 |
Jess, Tyehimba |
Leadbelly |
Wave Book Press |
2006 |
Jollimore, Troy |
Tom Thomson in Purgatory |
Maguire, Inc. |
2007 |
Jones, Patricia Spears |
Femme du Monde |
Tia Chucha Press |
2006 |
Kumin, Maxine |
Jack and Other Poems |
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
2006 |
| LaMon, Jacqueline Jones | Gravity U.S.A. | Quercus Review Press | 2006 |
Lilley, Gary Copeland |
The Subsequent Blues |
University Press of New England |
2006 |
| Mackey, Nathaniel | Splay Anthem | New Directions | 2006 |
| Mahola, Mzi | Dancing in the Rain: A Collection of Poetry | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2007 |
Marriott, D.S. |
Incognegro |
Salt Publishing Ltd. |
2006 |
| Martin, Lundy Dawn | A Gathering of Matter a Matter of Gathering | University of Georgia Press Athens and London | 2007 |
| McElroy, Colleen J. | Sleeping with the Moon | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
Miller, Kei |
Kingdom of Empty Bellies |
Heaven Tree Press |
2006 |
| Mokhosi, Rose | Basadzi Voices: An Anthology of Poetic Writings by Young Black South African Women | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2006 |
| Moore, Thomas | Moore's Irish Melodies: The Illustrated 1846 Edition | Dover Publications | 2000 |
| Pankey, Eric | Best New Poets 2006 | University of Virginia Press | 2006 |
| Pardlo, Gregory | Totem | The American Poetry Review | 2007 |
| Pavlic, Ed | Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
| Pinson, Hermine | Dolores is Blue/Dolorez is Blues | The Sheep Meadow Press | 2007 |
| Queen, Khadijah | Conduit | Black Goat | 2008 |
| Ramcharitar, Raymond | American Fall: Poems | Peepal Tree | 2007 |
| Rose, Chris | 1 Dead in the Attic | Chris Rose Books | 2006 |
| Rumble, Ken | Key Bridge | Carolina Wren Press | 2007 |
Slade, Leonard A Jr. |
Jazz After Dinner |
State University of New York Press |
2006 |
Smith, Tracy K |
Duende |
Graywolf Press |
2007 |
| Szoka, Elzbieta & Bratcher III, Joe W. | DG: The Dirty Goat | Host Publications | 2006 |
| Vicioso, Chiqui | Eva/Sión/Es, Eva/Sion/s, Éva/Sion/s | House of Nehisi Publishers | 2007 |
| Walker, Frank X. | When Winter Come: The Ascension of York | The University Press of Kentucky | 2008 |
Weir-Soley, Donna |
First Rain |
Peepal Tree Press |
2006 |
Wesley, Patricia |
Becoming Ebony |
Southern Illinois University Press |
2006 |
| Wright, Jay | The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
POETRY OUT FOR REVIEW
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
Bishop, Jacqueline |
Fauna |
Peepal Tree Press |
2006 |
Compton, Wayde |
Performance Bond |
Arsenal Pulp Press |
2006 |
| Dawes, Kwame | Impossible Flying | Peepal Tree | 2007 |
| Horton, Randall | The Definition of Place | Main Street Rag | 2006 |
| Jackson, Major | Hoops | W.W. Norton | 2006 |
Johnson, Amaud Jamaul |
Red Summer |
Tupelo Press |
2006 |
| Kolin, Philip C. and Susan Swartwout | Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita | Southeast Missouri State University Press | 2006 |
Moss, Thylias |
Tokyo Butter |
Persea Books |
2006 |
Mullen, Harryette |
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM*K*T, and Muse & Drudge |
Graywolf Press |
2006 |
Rieves, Dwaine |
When The Eye Forms |
Tupelo Press |
2006 |
Shockley, Evie |
a half-red sea |
Carolina Wren Press |
2006 |
Troupe, Quincy |
The Architecture of Language |
Coffee House Press |
2006 |
SCHOLARSHIP
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
| Abbott, Lynn and Doug Seroff | Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," & the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Adams, Anne V. and Esi Sutherland-Addy | The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism | Lynne Rienner | 2007 |
Adams, Jessica, Michael P. Bibler, and Cecile Accilien |
Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South |
The University Press of Virginia |
2007 |
| Adelson, Bruce | Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South | The University Press of Virginia | 2007 |
| Akoma, Chiji | Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics | The Ohio State University Press | 2007 |
| Aldridge, Delores P. and E. Lincoln James | Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms | Washington State University Press |
2007 |
| Ammons, Elizabeth | Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
| Anderson, Lisa M. | Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Anthony, Kathryn H. | Designing for Diversity: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Archetectural Profession | University of Illinois Press | 2001 |
| Apel, Dora and Shawn Michelle Smith | Defining Moments in American Photography, Vol. 2: Lynching Photographs | University of California Press | 2008 |
| Arnedo-Gomez, Miguel | Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry | The University Press of Virginia | 2006 |
| Arnesen, Eric | The Black Worker: A Reader | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Arrizon, Alicia | Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance | University of Michigan Press | 2006 |
| Awkward, Michael | Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and Struggle for Artistic Identity | Duke University Press | 2007 |
| Barber, Karin | Africa's Hidden Histories | Indiana University Press | 2006 |
| Barnard, Rita | Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
| Bauman, Mark K. and Berkley Kalin | The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s | The University of Alabama Press | 2007 |
| Beasley, Rebecca | Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism | Cambridge | 2007 |
| Bell, Kevin | Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Bergman, Emilie L. and Stacey Schlau | Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | The Modern Language Association of America | 2007 |
Bernstein, Robin |
Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater |
University of Michigan Press |
2006 |
| Berry, Daina Ramey | Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
Berry, Faith |
From Bondage to Liberation: Writings By and About Afro-Americans from 1700-1918 |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
| Birth, Kevin K. | Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Blair, Sara | Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century | Princeton University Press | 2007 |
| Boggis, Jerri Anne, Eve Allegra Raimon, and Barbara A. White, eds. | Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region | University of New Hampshire Press | 2007 |
| Boulukos, George | The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Rrace in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture | Cambridge Press | 2008 |
Branche, Jerome C. |
Colonialism and Race in Luso-Hispanic Literature |
University of Missouri Press |
2006 |
| Brennan, Jonathan | When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Brodzki, Bella | Can These Bones Live? Translation, Survival, and Cultural Memory | Stanford University Press | 2007 |
| Brooks, Daphne A. | Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 | Duke University Press | 2006 |
| Bruckner, Martin and Hsuan L. Hsu | American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 | University of Delaware Press | 2007 |
| Bush Jr., Harold K. | Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age | The University of Alabama Press | 2007 |
| Cailler, Bernadette | Carthage ou la flamme du brasier: Memoire et echos chez Virgile, Senghor, Mellah, Chachem, Augustin, Ammi, Broch et Glissant | Radopi | 2007 |
| Callahan, Richard J., Jr. | New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase | University of Missouri Press | 2008 |
| Calo, Mary Ann | Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 | The University of Michigan Press | 2007 |
| Campbell, James T. | Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 | University of Illinois Press | 2006 |
| Carrigan, William D. | The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 | University of Illinois Press | 2006 |
| Carroll, Anne Elizabeth | Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance | The University of Alabama Press | 2007 |
| Carter, Julian B. | The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940 | Duke University Press | 2007 |
| Casteel, Phillips Sarah | Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas | University of Virginia Press | 2007 |
| Caster, Peter | Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film | The Ohio State University Press | 2008 |
| Chambers, Jason | Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2008 |
| Chan, Alexandra A. | Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaelogy at a New England Farm | The University of Tennessee Press | 2007 |
| Charters, Ann | The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction | Bedford/St. Martin's | 2007 |
| Christopher, Emma, Cassandra Pybus and Marcus Rediker | Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World | University of California Press | 2007 |
| Cohen, Ralph | New Literary History: What is Literature Now? (Vol. 38, No. 1) | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2007 |
| Comprone, Raphael | Poetry, Desire, and Fantasy in the Harlem Renaissance | University Press of America, Inc. | 2006 |
| Compton, Wayde | Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature | Arsenal Pulp Press | 2006 |
| Conner, Marc C. and William R. Nash | Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Costello, Brannon | Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and The Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945-1971 | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
| Dagbovie, Pero Gaglo | The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Greene | Univeristy of Illinios Press | 2007 |
| Dallam, Marie W. | Daddy Grace: A Celebrity Preacher and his House of Prayer | New York University Press | 2007 |
Dargan, William T. |
Lining Out the World: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans |
University of California Press |
2006 |
| David, Johnathan C. | Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Davidson, James West | They Say: Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
| Davies, Carol Boyce | Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Davis, Darien J. | Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean | Roman & Littlefield Publishing Group | 2006 |
| Davis, James C. | Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933 | The University of Michigan Press | 2007 |
| De Ferrari, Guillermina | Vulnerable Studies: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction | University of Virginia Press | 2007 |
| DeLoughrey, Elizabeth M. | Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures | University of Hawai'i Press | 2007 |
| Dessens, Nathalie | From Saint-Domingue to New Orleans: Migration and Influences | University Press of Florida | 2007 |
| Dewey, Anne Day | Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry | Stanford University Press | 2007 |
| D'hulst, Lieven, Jean-Marc Moura, Liesbeth de Bleeker and Nadia Lie | Caribbean Interfaces | Rodopi | 2007 |
| Dickerson, Vanessa D. | Dark Victorians | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
| Diehl, Huston | Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970 | University of Iowa Press | 2007 |
| Dirck, Brian R. | Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race | Northern Illinois University Press | 2007 |
| Dixon, Henry O. | Male Protagonists in Four Novels of Alice Walker: Destruction and Development in Interpersonal Relationships | The Edwin Mellen Press | 2007 |
| Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell | Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit if Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
| Dooley, Gillian | V.S. Naipaul, Man and Writer | University of South Carolina Press | 2006 |
| Doyle, Laura | Freedom's Rise: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 | Duke University Press | 2008 |
Doyle, Laura & Winkiel, Laura |
Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, and Modernity |
Indiana University Press |
2006 |
| Dreher, Kwakiutl L. | Dancing on the White Stage: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography | State University of New York Press | 2008 |
| Edwards, Justin D. | Understanding Jamaica Kincaid | University of South Carolina Press | 2007 |
| Eileraas, Karina | Between Image and Identity: Transnational Fantasy, Symbolic Violence, and Feminist Misrecognition | Lexington Books | 2007 |
| Englund, Harri | Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor | University of California Press | 2006 |
| Evans, Stephanie Y. | Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History | Unviersity Press of Florida | 2007 |
| Falconer, Blas and Barry Kitterman | Zone 3 (Vol. XXI, No. 2) | Center for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State Univesity | 2006 |
| Feldman, Heidi Carolyn | Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific | Wesleyan University Press | 2006 |
| Fenza, D.W. | The Writer's Chronicle (Vol. 39, No. 6 May/Summer 2007) | Association of Writers and Writing Programs | 2007 |
| Fergus, Howard A. | Love, Labor, Liberation in Lasana Sekou | House of Nehesi Publishers | 2007 |
| Fernandes, Sujatha | Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures | Duke University Press | 2007 |
| Follett, Richard | The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860 | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
| Foner, Eric | Herbert Aptherker on Race and Democracy: A Reader | University of illinois Press | 2006 |
| Foster, Frances Smith | Love and Marriage in Early African America | Northeastern University Press | 2008 |
| Frezza, Daria | The Leader and the Crowd: Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880-1941 [translated by Martha King] | University of Georgia Press | 2007 |
| Fulton, DoVeanna S. | Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery | State University of New York Press | 2006 |
| Gardner, Eric | Jennie Carter: A Black Journalist of the Early West | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Germany, Kent | New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society | University of Georgia Press | 2006 |
| Goldman, Dara E. | Out of Bounds: Islands and the Demarcation of Identity in the Hispanic Carribean | Bucknell University Press | 2008 |
| Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth | Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights 1919-1950 | W.W. Norton | 2008 |
| Glaude, Eddie S., Jr. | In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America | The University of Chicago Press | 2007 |
| Glaysher, Frederick | The Grove of the Eumenides (Contains an essay on the poet Robert Hayden, by the editor of Hayden's collected prose and poems) | Earthrise Press | 2007 |
| Goldstein, David S. and Audrey B. Thacker | Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts | University of Washington Press | 2007 |
| Grace, Daphne | Relocating Consciousness: Diasporic Writers and the Dynamics of Literary Experience | Rodopi | 2007 |
Grady-Willis, Winston A. |
Challanging U.S. Apartheid |
Duke University Press |
2006 |
| Gruesser, John Cullen | Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic | The University of Georgia Press | 2007 |
| Haggins, Bambi | Laughing Mad: the black comic persona in post-soul america | Rutgers University Press | 2007 |
Hakutani, Yoshinobu |
Cross Cultural Visions in African American Modernism |
Ohio State University Press |
2006 |
| Hale, Thomas A. | Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music | Indiana University Press | 2007 |
| Handley, George B. | New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott | University of Georgia Press | 2007 |
Haralson, Eric |
Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-century American Poetry |
University of Iowa Press |
2006 |
| Hayes, Eileen M. and Linda F. Williams | Black Women in Music: More than Blues | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Henriksen, Line | Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics | Radopi | 2006 |
| Henry, Charles P. | Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations | New York University Press | 2007 |
| Herrera, Andrea O'Reilly | Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced | SUNY | 2007 |
| Hilliard, David | The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs | University of New Mexico Press | 2008 |
| Hoad, Neville | African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Holloway, Jonathan Scott and Ben Keppel | Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century | University of Notre Dame Press | 2007 |
| Hooks, Bell and Amalia Mesa-Bains | Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism | Southend Press | 2006 |
| Hopkins, Pauline | Daughter of the Revolution | State University of New York Press | 2007 |
| Huggins, Nathan Irvin | Harlem Renasissance | Oxford Press | 2007 |
| Ikard, David | Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
| Isaak, Mark | The Counter-Creationism Handbook | The University of California Press | 2007 |
| Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandria | White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity | Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 |
| James, Jennifer C. | A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II | University of North Carolina Press | 2007 |
| Jeffries, Judson L. | Black Power in the Belly of the Beast | University of Illinois Press | 2006 |
| Jensen, Robert | Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity | South End Press | 2007 |
| Johnson, Cedric | Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African-American Politics | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Johnson, Paul Christopher | Diaspora Conversations: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa | University of California Press Berkeley | 2007 |
Johnston, Derek |
A Brief History of Philosophy |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
| Joseph, Philip | American Literary Regionalism | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
Jules-Rosette, Bennetta |
Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image |
University of Illinois Press |
2006 |
| Kaussen, Valerie | Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism | Lexington Books | 2008 |
| Keeling, Kara | The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense | Duke University Press | 2007 |
| Keith, LeeAnna | The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, & The Death of Reconstruction | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Klein, Herbert S. & Vinson III, Ben | African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
| King, Debra Walker | African Americans and the Culture of Pain | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
| King, Lovalerie | Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature | Louisiana State University | 2007 |
| Kirschke, Amy H. | Art in Crisis: W.E.B. DuBois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory | Indiana University Press | 2007 |
| Krishnan, Sanjay | Reading The Global: Troubling Perspectives on Britain's Empire in Asia | Columbia University Press | 2007 |
| Lacy, Karyn R. | Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class | University of California Press | 2007 |
| Langley, April C. | The Black Aesthetic Unbound | The Ohio State University Press | 2007 |
| Larkin, Brian | Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria | Duke University Press | 2008 |
Lazerow, Jama and Williams, Yohuru |
In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement |
Duke University Press |
2006 |
| Leonard, Keith D. | Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights | University of Virginia Press | 2006 |
| Lester, Neal A. | Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children's Literature | Routlege | 2007 |
| Lewis, Leslie W. | Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Lewis, Linden and Glyne Griffith with Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler | Color, Hair, and Bone: Race in the Twenty-first Century | Bucknell University Press | 2008 |
| Lewis, Marvin A. | An Introduction to the Literature of Equatorial Guinea: Between Colonialism & Dictatorship | University of Missouri Press | 2007 |
| Lewis, Nghana tamu | Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1945 | University of Iowa Press | 2006 |
Lewis, Shireen K. |
Race Culture and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature from Negritude to Creolite |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc. |
2006 |
| Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya | The Black Church in the African American Experience | Duke University Press |
2008 |
| Lindfors, Bernth | Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius | University of Rochester Press | 2007 |
| Loichot, Valerie | Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
| Lubin, Alex | Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Luciak, Ilja A. | Gender and Democracy in Cuba | University Press of Florida | 2007 |
| Lynn, David | The Kenyon Review ( Vol. XXIX, No. 3) | Kenyon College Press | 2007 |
| Lyons, Barry J. | Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador | University of Texas Press | 2007 |
| Mackey, Nathaniel | Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews | University of Wisconsin Press | 2006 |
| Mance, Ajuan Maria | Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation | The University of Tennessee Press | 2007 |
| Mandel, Bernard | Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Mandel, Naomi | Against the Unspeakable Complicity, the Holocaust and Slavery in America | The University Press of Virginia | 2007 |
| Mann, Kristin | Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 | Indiana University Press | 2007 |
| Marriott, David | Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity | Rutgers University Press | 2007 |
| Martin, Michael T. and Marilyn Yaquinto | Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies | Duke University Press | 2007 |
| Massaquoi, Notisha and Njoki Nathani Wane | Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought | Inanna Publications & Education Inc. | 2007 |
| McElya, Micki | Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America | Harvard University Press | 2007 |
| McGann, Jerome | The Point is to Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present | The University of Alabama Press | 2007 |
| McKay, Claude | A Long Way from Home | Rutgers University Press | 2007 |
| Melas, Natalie | All the Difference in the World | Stanford University Press | 2006 |
| Miller, Christopher L. | The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade | Duke University Press | 2008 |
Miller, R. Baxter |
The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes |
The University of Kentucky Press |
2006 |
| Minnick, Lisa Cohen | Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech | The University of Alabama Press | 2007 |
| Mitchem, Stephanie Y. | African American Folk Healing | New York University Press | 2007 |
| Moglen, Seth | Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism | Stanford University Press | 2007 |
| Mortimer, Mildred | Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean | Lexington Books | 2007 |
| Moses, Sibyl | African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000: A Biographical Dictionary and Bibliographic Guide | Rutgers University Press | 2006 |
| Mumford, Kevin | Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America | NYU Press | 2007 |
| Nakamura, Lisa | Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
| Ndebele, Njabulo S. | Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2007 |
| Nelson, Charmaine A. | The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Nepomnyashchy, Catharine Theimer | Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness | Northwestern University Press | 2006 |
| Newman, Richard S. | Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers | New York University Press | 2008 |
| Nuttal, Sarah | Beautiful Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics | Duke University Press | 2006 |
| Oltman, Adele | Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
| Parker, Jason | Brother's Keeper: The United States, Race and Empire in the British Carribbean, 1937-1962 | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Pattillo, Mary | Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City | The University of Chicago Press | 2007 |
Pertehgella, Manuela and Loffredo, Eugenia |
Translation and Creativity: Perspectives on Creative Writing and Translation Studies |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
| Peterson, Christopher | Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Peterson, Nancy J. | Beloved: Character Studies | Continuum | 2008 |
| Pollack, Harriet, Christopher Metress | Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination | Louisiana State University Press | 2008 |
| Pramaggiore, Maria | Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 | State University of New York Press | 2007 |
| Prestholdt, Jeremy | Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization | University of California Press | 2008 |
Pybus, Cassandra |
Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and their Global Quest for Liberty |
Beacon Press |
2006 |
| Rabaka, Reiland | W.E.B. Du Bois and The Problems of The Twenty-First Century | Rowman & Littlefield | 2007 |
| Radhakrishnan, R. | History, the Human, and the World Between | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Ramey, Lauri | The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium | Ashgate | 2008 |
| Rankine, Claudia and Lisa Sewell | American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics | Wesleyan University Press | 2007 |
| Rankine, Patrice D. | Ulysses in Black | University of Wisconsin Press | 2006 |
| Regis, Helen A. | Caribbean and Southern Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South | The University of Georgia Press | 2006 |
| Richardson, Elaine | Hiphop Literacies | Taylor and Francis Group | 2006 |
Righelato, Pat |
Understanding Rita Dove |
University of South Carolina Press |
2006 |
| Robinson, Cedric J. | Forgeries of Memory & Meaning: Blacks & the Regimes of Race in American Theater & Film before World War II | University of North Carolina Press | 2007 |
| Robinson, Edward J. | To Save my Race from Abuse: The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius | The University of Alabama Press | 2007 |
| Rocchi, Jean-Paul | L'objet Identite: Epistemologie et Transversalite | Universite Paris-7 | 2006 |
| Rommen, Timothy | Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad | University of California Press | 2007 |
| Rooks, Noliwe M. | White Money, Black Power: The Suprising History of African American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education | Beacon Press | 2006 |
| Rossetti, Gina M. | Imagining the Primitive in Naturalist and Modernist Literature | University of Missouri Press | 2006 |
| Rucker, Walter C. | The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America | Louisiana State University Press | 2006 |
Ryan, Barbara |
Love, Wages, Slavery |
University of Illinois Press |
2006 |
| Sanders, Mark | Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission | Stanford University Press | 2007 |
Sanders, Mark |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Live Theory |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
| Sandoval, Mercedes Cros | Worldview, the Orichas, and Santeria: Africa to Cuba and Beyond | University Press of Florida | 2007 |
| Schultz, Mark | The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Scott, Jonathan | Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes | University of Missouri Press | 2006 |
| Sernett, Milton C. | Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History | Duke University Press | 2007 |
Shaw, Andrea Elizabeth |
The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies |
Rowman & Littlefield |
2006 |
| Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene | Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance | Rutgers University Press | 2007 |
| Sherwood, John Darrell | Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam War Era | New York University Press | 2007 |
| Shih, Shu-mei | Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific | University of California Press | 2007 |
| Silver, Andrew | Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1835-1925 | Louisiana State University Press | 2006 |
Simmons, Ryan |
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels |
University of Alabama Press |
2006 |
| Sidbury, James | Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
| Smith, Andrea et al. | The Revolution will not be Funded Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex | South End Press | 2007 |
| Smith, Katharine Capshaw | Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance |
Indiana University Press |
2006 |
| Smith, Vivian-Bickford and Richard Mendelsohn | Black + White In Color: African History on Screen | Ohio University Press | 2007 |
| South End Press Collective | What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation | South End Press | 2007 |
| Stallings, L.H. | Mutha' is half a word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture | Ohio State University Press | 2007 |
| Stanley, Jodee | Ninth Letter, Vol. 4, Num. 1 (Spring/Summer 2007) | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Stanton, Mary | Journey Toward Justice: Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | The University of Georgia Press | 2006 |
| Starkey, David | Living Blue in the Red States | University of Nebraska Press | 2007 |
| Staves, Susan | A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 | Cambridge University Press | 2006 |
| Stephens, Judith L. | The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement | University of Illinois Press | 2006 |
| Strode, Tim and Tim Wood | The Hip Hop Reader | Pearson Longman | 2008 |
| Suarez, Lucia M. | The Tears of Hispaniola: Haitian and Dominican Diaspora Memory | University Press of Florida | 2006 |
| Summerskill, Ben | The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in the 21st Century | Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog | 2006 |
Sundquist, Eric J. |
Empire and Slavery in American Literature |
University of Mississippi Press |
2006 |
| Sweeney, James R. | Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954-1959 | The University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
| Tally, Justine | The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison | Camberidge University Press | 2007 |
| Tarver, Australia and Paula C. Barnes | New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | 2006 |
| Tatum, Beverly Daniel | Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation | Beacon Press | 2007 |
| Temple, Christel N. | Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature | Carolina Academic Press | 2007 |
| Thomas, Nigel | Why We Write: Conversations with African Canadian Poets and Novelists | TSAR Press | 2006 |
| Thompson, Carlyle | Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African Literature and Culture | Peter Lang Publishing | 2006 |
| Thompson, Krista A. | An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque | Duke University Press | 2006 |
| Thomas, Lorenzo | Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition | University of Michigan Press | 2008 |
| Thompson, Mark Christian | Black Fascisms: African American Literature & Culture between the Wars | University of Virginia Press | 2007 |
| Tidwell, John Edgar and Mark A. Sanders | Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South | Oxford University Press | 2007 |
| Townsend, Peter | Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s | University Press of Mississippi | 2007 |
| Treka, Jane, Oparah Julia and Shin, Sun | Outisders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption | South End Press | 2006 |
| TuSmith, Bonnie & Byerman, Keith E. | Critical Essays on John Edgar Wideman | The University of Tennessee Press | 2006 |
| Valentine, David | Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a category | Duke University Press Durham and London | 2007 |
Van Rijn, Guido |
The Truman and Eisenhower Blues |
Continuum Trade and Academic Catalog |
2006 |
| Walker-Hill, Helen | From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and their Music | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Weisenfeld, Judith | Hollywood be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 | University of California Press | 2007 |
| Whalan, Mark | Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America: The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer | The University of Tennessee Press | 2007 |
| Wilson, Francille Rusan | The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1900 | The University Press of Virginia | 2006 |
| Winkler, Elizabeth Grace | Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics | Continuum | 2007 |
| Winter, Molly Crumpton | American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism | Louisiana State Unviersity Press | 2007 |
| Wirtz, Kristina | Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuba Santeria: Speaking a Sacred World | University Press of Florida | 2007 |
| Whalan, Mark | The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro | Florida University Press | 2008 |
| Wolf, Eva S. | Race and Liberty in the New Nation | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
| Wolfenstein, Eugene Victor | A Gift of the Spirit: Reading the Souls of Black Folk | Cornell University Press | 2007 |
| Wright, Michelle Diane | Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Social Thought (with CD) | Three Sistahs Press | 2007 |
Wright, W. D. |
Crisis of the Black Intellectual |
Third World Press |
2007 |
Young, Hershini Bhana |
Haunting Capital: Memory, Text, and the Black Diasporic Body |
University Press of New England |
2006 |
Young, Joseph and Jana Evans Braziel |
Race and the Foundations of Knowledge |
University of Illinois Press |
2006 |
| Zabus, Chantal | Between Rites & Rights | Stanford University Press | 2007 |
| Zaki, Hoda M. | Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute: The Legacy of Alonzo G. Moron | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
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| Blum, Edward J. | Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism 1865-1898 | Louisiana State University Press | 2007 |
| Chaney, Michael A. | Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
| Christian, Barbara | New Black Feminist Criticism 1985-2000 | University of Illinois Press | 2007 |
| Clarke, Kamari Maxine & Thomas, Deborah A. | Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness | Duke University Press | 2006 |
| Coleman, James W. | Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction | Louisiana State University Press | 2006 |
Collins, Lisa Gail and Crawford, Margo Natalie |
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement |
Rutgers University Press |
2006 |
| Fisch, Audrey | The Cambridge Companion to The African American Slave Narrative | Camberidge University Press | 2007 |
| Gadsby, Meredith | Sucking Salt | University of Missouri Press | 2006 |
| Garrigus, John D. | Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-domingue (The Americas in the Early Modern Atlantic World) | Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 |
| Gates, Henry Louis Jr., Gene Andrew Jarrett | The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 | Princeton University Press | 2007 |
Goldstone, Dwonna |
Integrating the 40 Acres: The 50 Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas |
University of Georgia Press |
2006 |
| Green, Adam | Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 | The University of Chicago Press | 2007 |
| Hess, Mickey | Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture (Vol.1) | Greenwood Press | 2007 |
| Hess, Mickey | Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture (Vol.2) | Greenwood Press | 2007 |
| Holcomb, Gary Edward | Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance | University Press of Florida | 2007 |
| Hutchinson, George | In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | 2006 |
Isfahani-hammond, Alexandria |
The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries |