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.
If you have never written for us before, a copy of your CV.
For all Poetry books (including criticism) email:Gregory Pardlo at : pardlo@gwu.edu
For all Music and Culture books, email: Emily Lordi at: ejl2005@columbia.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.
Please read our review guidelines if you are interested in making a submission.
Tables are organized by genre, then alphabetically by author's/editors last name.
Titles Highlighted in YELLOW are Currently Being Reviewed or Waiting for Publication
NEW!!Titles are Highlighterd in BLUE are New Arrivals!
Titles Highlighted in RED are Being Published in the Most Current Volumes, So Be Sure to Look For Them in
Summer 32.3 & Upcoming Fall 32.4
FICTION * NON-FICTION * POETRY * SCHOLARSHIP
FICTION
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
| Allen, Jeffery Renard | Holding Pattern | Graywolf Press | 2008 |
| Allen-Agostini, Lisa & Jeanne Mason | Trinidad Noir | Akashic Books | 2008 |
| Anonymous, Edited by Lyndon J. Dominique | The Woman of Colour: A Tale | Broadview | 2008 |
| Baldwin, Edward M. | Learnt | Jazlo & Lossi Publishing | 2008 |
| Boehmer, Elleke | Nile Baby | Ayebia Clark Publishing | 2008 |
| Bontemps, Arna & Langston Hughes | Boy of the Border | Sweet Earth Flying Press | 2009 |
| Brand, Dionne | What We All Long For (Advance, Uncorrected Proof) | Thomas Dunne Books | 2008 |
| Carew, Jan | Black Midas | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Carew, Jan | The Wild Coast | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Chavez, Andrew | Shanidar Cave: A three-act verse play building on the discovery of the Neanderthal burial site at that Location | Authorhouse | 2008 |
| Cliff, Michelle | Everything Is Now: New and Collected Stories | University of Minnesota | 2009 |
| Coleman, Wanda | Jazz and Twelve O'Clock Tales | David R. Godine | 2008 |
| D | Cake: A Novel | The Armory c/o Akashic Books | 2008 |
| Dabydeen, David | Molly and the Muslim Stick | MacMillan Caribbean | 2008 |
| Dawes, Kwame | Hope's Hospice | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Dominique, Jan J. | Memoir of an Amnesiac | Carribean Studies Press | 2008 |
| Duplechan, Larry | Got 'Til It's Gone | Arsenal Pulp Press | 2008 |
| Glave, Thomas | Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles | Duke University Press |
2008 |
| Goodman, Matthew Aaron | Hold Love Strong: A Novel (Advance Uncorrected) | Simon & Schuster | 2009 |
| Goodman, Matthew Aaron | Hold Love Strong: A Novel | Simon & Schuster | 2009 |
| Gappah, Petina | An Elegy for Easterly: Stories | Faber & Faber | 2009 |
| Garvey, W.B. | Panama Fever: Digging Down Gold Mountain (Advanced Reader Copy) | Jonkro Books | 2009 |
| Gwamna, Olabisi | Dancing with Shadows and Other Stories | Hamilton Books | 2008 |
| Hallaran, Vivian Nun | Exhibiting Slavery: The Caribbeean Postmodern Novel as Museum | University of Virginia Press | 2009 |
| Harris, Wilson | Heartland | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Jackson, Angela | Where I Must Go (Uncorrected Proof) | Northwestern University Press | 2009 |
| Lavalle, Victor | Big Machine | Spiegel & Grau | 2009 |
| Maistros, Louis | The Sound of Building Coffins: A Novel Of Catastrophe And Rebirth In New Orleans At The Dawn Of The Jazz Age (Uncorrected) | The Toby Press | 2009 |
| Makuchi | The Sacred Door and other stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba | Ohio University Press | 2008 |
| Mgqolozana, Thando | A Man Who is Not a Man | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2009 |
| Miller, Kei | The Same Earth | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 2008 |
| Mittelholzer, Edgar | Corentyne Thunder | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Mpe, Phaswane | Brooding Clouds | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2008 |
| Newland, Courttia and Monique Roffey (eds) | The Global Village: Tell Tales Volume 4 | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Newton, Huey | To Die for The People | City Lights Publishers | 2009 |
| Nimblett, Anton | Sections of an Orange | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Ntshingila, Futhi | Shameless | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2008 |
| Otis, Johnny | Listening to the Lambs | University of Minnesota Press | 2009 |
| Philp, Geoffrey | Who's Your Daddy?: and other stories | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Powell, Patricia | The Fullness of Everything | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Rhone, Trevor | Bellas Gate Boy | MacMillan Caribbean | 2008 |
| Salkey, Andrew | Escape to Autumn Pavement | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Shawl, Nisi | Filter House | Aqueduct Press |
2008 |
| Tabor, Alton | From Whence I Came | Authorhouse | 2009 |
| Thompson, Christina | Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story | Bloomsbury | 2008 |
| Upstone, Sara | Spatial Politics in the Postcolonial Novel | Ashgate | 2009 |
| Wimberley, Darryl | A Rock and a Hard Place | The Toby Press | 2008 |
| Wimberley, Darryl | Dead Man's Body | The Toby Press | 2008 |
| Wimberley, Darryl | Kaleidoscope (Advance and Uncorrected Copy) | The Toby Press | 2008 |
| Wimberley, Darryl | Pepperfish Keys | The Toby Press | 2008 |
| Wimberley, Darryl | Strawman's Hammock | The Toby Press |
2008 |
| Winkler, Anthony | The Duppy | Akashic Books | 2008 |
FICTION OUT FOR REVIEW
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year of Pub. |
| Betts, Reginald Dwayne | Shahid Reads His Own Palm ( Proof ) | Alice James Books | 2010 |
| Bontemps, Arna | Drums at Dusk | Louisiana State University | 2009 |
| Chauvet, Marie Vieux (translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur) | Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy | Random House | 2009 |
| Childress, Alice | A Short Walk | Feminist Press Press at the City University of New York | 2009 |
| Everett, Percival | I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel | Graywolf | 2009 |
| Glave, Thomas | The Torturer's Wife (Advance, uncorrected proof) | City Lights Publishers | 2008 |
| Shenoda, Matthew | Seasons of Lotus Seasons of Bone | BOA Editions | 2009 |
| Wideman, John Edgar | Fanon: A Novel | Houghton Mifflin | 2008 |
NON-FICTION
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
| Andrews, William L. and Regina E. Mason (Editors) | Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | The Essays | Oklahoma University Press | 2009 |
| Armes, Roy | Dictionary of African Filmmakers | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
| Bakh, Mano, Kelli McIntyre, Jacqueline Le Beau | Escaping Islam: The Evil Might Not Be Realized Until It Is Too Late | authorHouse | 2009 |
| Bissonette, Jamie with Ralph Hamm, Robert Dellelo and Edward Rodman | When the Prisoners Ran Walpole: A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition | South End Press | 2008 |
| Bourne, Richard | Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far | University of California Press | 2008 |
| Bush, A.E. & P.L. Dorman | History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials | University of Arksans Press | 2008 |
| Carter, Marva Griffin | Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Cliff, Michelle | If I Could Write This in Fire | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
| Cunningham, Roger D. | The Black Citizen-Soldiers of Kansas, 1864-1901 | University of Missouri Press | 2008 |
| Curtis, Susan | Colored Memories: A Biographer's Quest for the Elusive Lester A. Walton | University of Missouri Press | 2008 |
| Cusic, Don | The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point | McFarland & Co. | 2009 |
| Denard, Carolyn C. | Toni Morrison: Conversations | University Press of Mississippi | 2008 |
| Evans, Joe with Christopher Brooks | Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
| Freedman, Carl (ed.) | Conversations with Samuel R. Delaney | University of Mississippi Press | 2009 |
| Gillespie, Dizzy and Al Fraser | To Be, or Not…to Bop | University of Minnesota | 2009 |
| Hirsch, James S. | Riot and Remembrance: America's Worst Race Riot and Its Legacy | Houghton Mifflin Co. | 2008 |
| Jackson, Shirley Gordon | A Place to Be Someone: Growing Up With Charles Gordone | Texas Tech University | 2009 |
| Kennedy, Fred W. | Daddy Sharpe: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave Written by Himself, 1832 | Ian Randle Publishers | 2008 |
| Kenney, David Ngaruri and Philip G. Schrag | Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America | University of California Press | 2008 |
| Lemons, Gary L | Womanist Forefathers: Fredrick Douglass and W.E. B. Du Bois | SUNY Press | 2009 |
| Levy, Alan H. | Floyd Patterson: A Boxer and A Gentleman | McFarland | 2008 |
| Long, Robert Emmet | Writing: Working in the Theatre | Continuum | 2008 |
| Mandela,Nelson Foundation, Umlando Wezithombe | Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book | W.W. Norton & Company | 2009 |
| McClane, Kenneth A. | Color: essays on race, ramily, and history | University of Notre Dame Press | 2009 |
| Mengert, Christina and Joshua Marie Wilkinson (eds) | 12 x 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics | University of Iowa Press | 2009 |
| Monroe, Gary | The Highwaymen Murals: Al Black's Concrete Dreams | The University Press of Florida | 2009 |
| Morris, Dashaun "Jiwe" | War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldiers March Toward Redemption | Scribner | 2008 |
| Newkirk, Pamela | Letters from Black America | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2009 |
| Niemeyer, Lucian | Darfur (Picture Book) | University of New Mexico | 2009 |
| Perkins, Kathy A. | African Women Playwrights | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
| Petry, Elisabeth | At Home Inside: A Daughter's Tribute to Ann Petry | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 |
| Pironti, Tullio | Books & Rough Business: a memoir | Red Hen Press | 2008 |
| Potter, Eliza | A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life | University of North Carolina Press | 2009 |
| Ramcharitar, Raymond | The Island Quintet A Sequence | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| 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 |
| Sirmans, Franklin | NeoHooDoo: Art For a Forgotten Faith | The Menil Collection | 2008 |
| 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 |
| Tygiel, Jules | Baseball's Great Experiement: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Walker, Lee and Carol Bast & S.T. Karnick (eds.) | Booker T. Washington: A Re-Examination | The Heartlands Institute | 2008 |
| Wood, Peggy and Parker Brown | Something Must Be Done | Syracuse University Press | 2008 |
| Wylie, Diana | Art+Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
NON-FICTION OUT FOR REVIEW
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year of Pub. |
| Abdi Roble and Rutledge, Doug | The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
| Bernier, Celeste-Marie | African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present | University of North Carolina Press |
2008 |
| Broadnax, Samuel L. | Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation | University of Nebraska Press | 2008 |
| Brown, Jayna | Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Johnson, E. Patrick | Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, An Oral History | The University of North Carolina Press | 2008 |
| Kolin, Philip C. | Contemporary African American Women Playrights: A Casebook | Routledge |
2008 |
| Lemons, Gary L. | Black Male Outsider, A Memoir: Teaching as a Pro-Feminist Man | State University of New York Press | 2008 |
| McVeigh, Rory | The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics | University of Minnesota | 2009 |
| Morrison-Reed, Mark | In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby | Skinner House | 2009 |
POETRY
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
| Adisa, Opal Palmer | I Name Me Name: Poetry and Prose | Peepal Tree Press | 2008 |
| Alexander, Will | The Sri Lankan Loxodrome | New Directions | 2009 |
| Bashir, Samiya | Gospel | RedBone Press | 2009 |
| Bethel, Marion | Guanahani My Love | House of Neheshi Publishers | 2009 |
| Bryant, Philip S. | Stomping at the Grand Terrace: A Jazz Memoir in Verse (Advanced Reader Copy) | Blueroad Press | 2009 |
| Burton, Edson | Seasoned | City Chameleon | 2009 |
| Busia, Abena P.A. | Traces of Life: A Collection of Elegies and Praise Poems | Ayebia Clark Publishing | 2008 |
| Butts, Anthony | The Golden Underground | Wayne State University Press | 2009 |
| 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 |
| Chavez, Andrew | A Modern Romantic Odyssey: An epic poem presented in a straightforward and plainspoken manner | Authorhouse | 2008 |
| Cherry, James E. | Honoring the Ancestors | Third World Press | 2008 |
| Chipasula, Frank M. | Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry | South Illinois University Press | 2009 |
| Cortez, Jayne | On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems | Hanging Loose Press | 2009 |
| Dawes, Kwame | The Fullness of Everything | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Ede, Amatoristesero | globetrotter & hitler's children | Black Goat | 2009 |
| Edmunds, Susan | Grotesque Relations: Modern Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
| Everett, Percival | Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems | Black Goat | 2008 |
| Farés, Nabile (translated by Peter Thompson) | Hearing Your Story: Song of History and Life for Sand Roses | University of New Orleans Press | 2008 |
| Floyd-Miller, Cherryl | Exquisite Heats | Salt Publishing | 2008 |
| Fortuny, Kim | American Writers in Istanbul (AdvanceD Unproofed Copy) | Syracuse University Press | 2009 |
| Foust, Rebecca | Mom's Canoe | Texas Review Press | 2008 |
| Graham, Millicent A.A. | The Damp in Things | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Grant, Cy | Rivers of Time: Collected Poems of Cy Grant | Naked Light | 2008 |
| Hardy, Myronn | The Headless Saints | Island Seas Poetry | 2008 |
| Howe, Marie | The Kingdom of Ordinary Time | W.W. Norton, Inc. | 2008 |
| Jauregui, Gabriela | Controlled Decay | Black Goat | 2008 |
| Kaplan, Harold | Redemptive Memory: The Collected Poems of Harold Kaplan | Xlibris | 2009 |
| Kuwabong, Dannabang | Caribbean Blues & Love's Genealogy: Poems | TSAR Publications | 2008 |
| Lamming, George | Sovereignty of the Imagination | House of Nehesi Press | 2009 |
| Lansana, Quraysh Ali | bloodsoil (sooner red) | Voices form the American Land | 2009 |
| Madhubuti, Haki R. | Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 | Third World Press | 2009 |
| Malouf, Michael | Transatlantic Solidarities: Irish Nationalism and Caribbean Poetics | University of Virginia Press | 2009 |
| McDonough, Jill | Habeas Corpus | Salt Publishing | 2009 |
| McKay, Claude | Completed Poems | University of Illinois Press |
2008 |
| Montero, Kristiina (ed.) and Syracuse City School District Students | Soul Talk: Urban Youth Poetry | Syracuse University Press | 2008 |
| Musser, Judith (ed) | "Tell It to Us Easy and Other Stories" A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in Opportunity Magazine (1923-1948) | McFarland & Company, Inc, Publishers | 2009 |
| Nyezwa, Mxolisi | New Country | University of KwaZulu-Natal | 2008 |
| Pavlic, Ed | Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
| Persaud, Sasenarine | In a Boston Night: Poems | TSAR Publications | 2008 |
| Phillips, Esther | The Stone Gatherer | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Queen, Khadijah | Conduit | Black Goat | 2008 |
| Rahm, Jennifer | Approaching Sabbaths | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Ramazani, Jahan | A Transnational Poetics | The University of Chicago Press | 2009 |
| Sanchez, Sonia | morning haiku (uncorrected page proof) | Beacon Press | 2009 |
| Sanders, Leslie C (Ed) | Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand | Wilfrid Laurier University Press | 2009 |
| Shirley, Tanya | She Who Sleeps With Bones | Peepal Tree | 2009 |
| Spires, Elizabeth | The Wave-Maker: Poems | W.W. Norton & Co. | 2008 |
| Walker, Frank X. | When Winter Come: The Ascension of York | The University Press of Kentucky | 2008 |
| Williams, Charles and Jelani Harper | 90 Degrees: A Collaborative Compendium of Poetry | Higher Nature | 2008 |
| Williams, Crystal | Troubled Tongues | Lotus Press | 2009 |
| Wilson, Ivy G. (ed) | At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allison Whitman | University Press of New England | 2009 |
| Wilson, Ronaldo V. | Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2008 |
| Xaba, Makhosazana | Tounges of Their Mothers | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2008 |
POETRY OUT FOR REVIEW
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Year of Pub. |
| Brown, Jericho | Please (Advanced Copy) | New Issues Poetry & Prose | 2008 |
| Dove, Rita | Sonata Mulattica | W.W. Norton & Company | 2009 |
| Dungy, Camille T. (ed) | Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (Advanced Reader's Copy) | The University of Georgia Press | 2009 |
Komunyakaa, Yusef |
Warhorses |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
2009 |
| Philip, M. NourbeSe | Zong! | University Press of New England |
2008 |
| Oliver, Akilah | A Toast in the House of Friends | Coffee House Press | 2009 |
| Shenoda, Matthew | Seasons of Lotus Seasons of Bone | BOA Editions | 2009 |
| Smith, Patricia | Blood Dazzler: Poems | Coffee House Press | 2009 |
| Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae | Open Interval | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2009 |
| Weatherford, Carole Boston | Becoming Billie Holiday (*This work is aimed at younger readers) | Wordsong | 2008 |
| Young, Kevin | Dear Darkness | Alfred A. Knopf | 2008 |
SCHOLARSHIP
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Year of Pub. |
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| Abu-Jamal, Mumia | Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. The U.S.A. | City Lights | 2009 |
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| Adams, Katherine | Owning Up: Privacy, Property, & Belonging in U.S. Women's Life Writing | Oxford University Press | 2009 | |||
| Afolabi, Niyi | Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy | University of Rochester | 2009 |
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| Aiken, Charles S. | William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape | University of Georgia Press | 2009 | |||
| Alexander, Leslie M. | African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Alexander, Shawn Leigh (ed) | T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1938 | University Press of Florida | 2008 |
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| Allen, Frederick | A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes | University of Oklahoma Press | 2009 | |||
| Allen, Peggy Vonsherie | The Pecan Orchard: Journey of a Sharecroppers Daughter | University of Alabama Press | 2009 | |||
| Allured, Janet & Judith Gentry (eds.) | Louisiana Women:Their Lives and Times | The University of Georgia Press | 2009 | |||
| Alvarez, Luis | The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II | University of California Press | 2008 |
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| Apel, Dora and Shawn Michelle Smith | Defining Moments in American Photography, Vol. 2: Lynching Photographs | University of California Press | 2008 |
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| Ara, Konomi | Ralph Ellison and Individuality | Nan'un-do | 2008 |
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| Armstrong, Julie Buckner and Amy Schmidt (eds) | The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation | University of Georgia Press | 2009 |
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| Arondekar, Anjali | For the Record: On sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Asaah, Augustine H. & Tobe Levin | Empathy and Rage: Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature | Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited | 2009 | |||
| Atwater, Deborah F. | African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor | Lexington Books | 2009 | |||
| Awkward, Michael | Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat | Minnesota University Press | 2009 | |||
| Bailey, Frankie Y | African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study | McFarland | 2008 |
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| Bales, Kevin | Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy | University of California Press | 2008 |
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| Bandele, Ramla M. | Black Star: African American Activism in the International Political Economy | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Baraka, Amiri | Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music | University of California Press | 2009 | |||
| Barcia, Manuel | Seeds of Insurrection: Domination and Resistance on Western Cuba Plantations, 1808-1848 | LSU Press | 2008 |
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| Barrios, Olga | The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa | Biblioteca Javier Coy D'Estudis Nord-Americans Universistat de Valencia | 2009 | |||
| Barrios, Olga & Frances Smith Foster (eds.) | Family in Africa and the African Diaspora: A Multidisciplinary Approach | Ediciones Almar/ Ambos Mundos | 2009 | |||
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| Bass, Jack & W. Scott Poole | The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina | South Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| Bauer, Ralph & Jose Antonio Mazzotti (eds.) | Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities | The University of North Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| Bay, Mia | To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells | Hill and Wang | 2009 |
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| Bean, Jonathan (ed.) | Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader | The Independent Institute | 2009 | |||
| Bell, Christopher C. Jr. | The Black Clergy's Misguided Worship Leadership - Advanced Copy | Trafford Publishing | 2009 |
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| Bell, David & Jacobs, J.U. (eds) | Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda | University of KwaZulu-Natal Press | 2009 | |||
| Benson, Melanie R. | Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912 - 2002 | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| Bernstein, Matthew H. | Screening a Lunching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television | University of Georgia Press | 2009 |
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| Berry, Jason & Jonathan Foose & Tad Jones | Up From the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II | The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press | 2009 | |||
| Besteman, Catherine | Transforming Cape Town | University of California Press |
2008 |
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| Bey, Maissa | Above All, Don't Look Back | University of Virginia Press | 2009 | |||
| Birth, Kevin K. | Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad | Duke University Press | 2008 |
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| Boehm, Lisa Krissoff | Making a Way out of No Way: African American Women and the Second Great Migration | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Bolden, Tony | The Funk Era and Beyond: New Perspectives on Black Popular Culture | Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 |
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| Bovilsky, Lara | Barbarous Play: Race on the English Renaissance Stage | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
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| Boyd, Michelle R. | Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconsructing Race in Bronzeville | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
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| Bradley, Stefan M. | Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960's | The University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Brady, Owen E. & Derek C. Maus | Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assesment of Walter Mosley's Fiction | University Press of Mississippi | 2008 |
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| Braziel, Jana Evans | Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
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| Braziel, Jana Evans | Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds | State University of New York Press | 2009 |
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| Braziel, Jana Evans | Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds | State University of New York Press | 2009 | |||
| Brill de Ramirez, Susan Berry and Lucero, Evelina Zuni (Editors) | Simon J Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance | University of New Mexico Press | 2009 | |||
| Brivic, Shelly | Tears of Rage: The Racial Interface of Modern American Fiction - Faulkner, Wright, Pynchon, Morrison | LSU Press | 2008 |
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| Brody, Jennifer DeVere | Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play | Duke University Press | 2008 |
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| Buss, Fran Leeper (ed.) | Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights & Textile Union Activist | The University of Michigan Press | 2009 | |||
| Callahan, Richard J., Jr. | New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase | University of Missouri Press | 2008 |
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| Calt, Stephen | Barrelhouse Words: A blues dialect dictionary | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Carriero, John | Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's "Meditations" | Princeton University Press | 2009 |
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| Carter, Tomeiko Ashford | Powers Divine: Spiritual Autobiography and Black Women's Writing | University Press of America | 2009 |
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| Chance, Dominique | Ecritures du chaos (French) | Presses Universitaires de Vincennes | 2009 | |||
| Chambers, Jason | Madison Avenue and the Color Line: African Americans in the Advertising Industry | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2008 |
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| Charters, Samuel | A Language of Song: Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Clabough, Casey | Gayle Jones: The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings | McFarland | 2008 |
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| Clark, Blue | Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide | University of Oklahoma Norman | 2009 | |||
| Coggswell, Gladys Caines | Stories from the Heart: Missouri's African American Heritage | University of Missouri | 2009 | |||
| Coovadia, Imraan | Authority and Authorship in V.S. Naipaul | Palgrave Macmillan | 2009 | |||
| Crawford, Margo Natalie | Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus | The Ohio State University Press | 2008 |
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| Crichlow, Michaeline A. | Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Cruse, Harold | Rebellion or Revolution? | University of Minnesota | 2009 | |||
| Curtis, Susan | Dancing to a Black Man's Tune: A Life of Scott Joplin | University of Missouri Press | 2009 | |||
| Curry, Dawn Y., Eric D. Duke and Marshanda A. Smith | Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Davidson, Maria del Guadalupe & George Yancy | Critical Pespectives on Bell Hooks | Routledge | 2009 | |||
| Davis, Cyntia and Verner D. Mitchell (edited) | Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman | University of Oklahoma Press | 2008 |
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| De Meyer, Bernard & Neil ten Kortenaar (eds.) | The Changing Face of African Literature | Rodopi | 2009 | |||
| de Schweinitz, Rebecca | if we could change the world: Young People and America's Long Struggle of Racial Equality | The University of North Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| Deena, Seodial Frank H. | Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Post-Colonial Studies | Peter Lang Publishing | 2009 |
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| Derby, Lauren | The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Dickerson, Vanessa D. | Dark Victorians | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Djata, Sundiata | Black at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, Volume Two | Syracuse University Press | 2008 |
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| Djedje, Jacqueline Cogdell | Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit if Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
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| Douglas, Christopher | A Genealogy of Litereary Multiculturalism | Cornell University Press | 2009 | |||
| Dowling, David | Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market | University of Iowa | 2009 |
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| Dreher, Kwakiutl L. | Dancing on the White Stage: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography | State University of New York Press | 2008 |
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| Dunn, Stephane | "Baad Bitches" and Sassy Supermamas: Place Power Action Films | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Dusinberre, William | Strategies For Survival: Recollections of Bondage in Antebellum Virginia | University of Virginia Press | 2009 | |||
| Eckstein, Lars with Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker & Christoph Reinfandt | Multi-Ethnic Britain 2000+: New Perspectives in Literature, Film and the Arts | Rodopi | 2008 |
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| Ellwood, Robert | Myth: Key Concepts in Religion | Continuum | 2009 | |||
| Evans, Stephanie Y., Taylor, Colette M. Dunlap, Michelle R., & Miller, DeMond S., (eds) | African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education | Suny Press | 2009 | |||
| Elster, Jon | Alexis De Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist | Cambridge University Press | 2009 | |||
| Felak, James Ramon | After Hitler, Before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2009 | |||
| Field, Douglas (ed.) | A Historical Guide to James Baldwin | Oxford University Press | 2009 | |||
| Fisher, Andrew B. & Matthew D. O'hara (eds.) | Imperial Subjects: Race and Identity in Colonial Latin America | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Finseth, Ian Frederick | Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860 | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| Foreman, P. Gabrielle | Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century | University of New Mexico Press | 2009 | |||
| Foster, Frances Smith | Love and Marriage in Early African America | Northeastern University Press | 2008 |
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| Fox, Jon Hartley | King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Friend, Craig Thompson | Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction | University of Georgia Press | 2008 | |||
| Fremon, Celeste | G-Dog and the Homeboys: Updated and Expanded Edition | University of New Mexico | 2008 |
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| Friend, Craig Thompson | Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction | University of Georgia Press | 2009 | |||
| Frost, Linda | Conjoined Twins in Black and White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton | University of Wisconsin | 2009 | |||
| Fumagalli, Maria Christina | Caribbean Perspectives in Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze | University of Virginia Press | 2009 | |||
| Gabbin, Joanne Veal | Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Gardner, Eric | Unexcpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| F, Henry Louis, Jr. | Lincoln on Race & Slavery | Princeton University Press | 2009 |
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| Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.( ed) | Lincoln on Race & Slavery | Princeton University Press | 2009 | |||
| Gates, Henry Louis Jr. & Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham | Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography | Oxford University Press | 2009 |
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| Geggus, David Patrick & Norman Fiering | The World of the Haitian Revolution | Indiana University Press | 2009 | |||
| Gellman, David N. | Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827 | LSU Press | 2008 |
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| Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth | Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights 1919-1950 | W.W. Norton | 2008 |
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| Giltner, Scott E. | Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure After the Civil War | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2008 |
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| Gordon-Reed, Annette | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | W.W. Norton | 2008 |
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| Grassian, Daniel | Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip Hop Generation | University of South Carolina | 2009 |
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| Greene, J. Lee | The Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
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| Green, Tara T. | A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspecitves of African American Men | University of Missouri Press | 2009 |
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| Greenspan, Ezra | William Wells Brown: A Reader | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| Guadeloupe, Francio | Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean | University of California | 2009 |
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| Gyssels, Kathleen & Benedicte Ledent (eds.) | The Caribbean Writer as Warrior of the Imaginary | Rodopi | 2009 | |||
| Hale, Lindsay | Hearing the Mermaid's Song: The Umbanda Religion in Rio De Janeiro | University of New Mexico Press | 2009 | |||
| Hall, Stephen G. | A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteeth-Century America | University of North Carolina Press | 2009 |
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| Hanson, Sandra L | Swimming Against the Tide: African American Girls and Science Education | Temple University | 2009 |
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| Hardy III, Clarence E. | James Baldwin's God: sex hope, and crisis in Black holiness culture | University of Tennesee Press | 2003 | |||
| Harold, Christine | OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture | University of Minnesota | 2009 | |||
| Hawkins Jr., Alfonso W. | The Jazz Trope: A Theory of African American Literary and Vernacular Culture | The Scarecrow Press | 2008 |
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| Hearne, Betsy & Roberta Seelinger Trites (eds.) | A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women's Lives | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Hearn, Adrian H. | Cuba: Religion, Social Capital and Development | Duke University Press | 2008 |
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| Henderson, Carol E. (ed) | America and the Black Body: Identity Politics in Print and Visual Culture | Rosemont Publishing Co. | 2009 | |||
| Hernandez, Deborah Pacini & Wayne Marshall & Raquel Z. Rivera | Reggaeton | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Hilliard, David | The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs | University of New Mexico Press | 2008 |
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| Hine, Darlene Clark, Tricia Danielle Keaton, & Stephen Small | Black Europe and the African Diaspora | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Ho, Fred and Bill V. Mullen | Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans | Duke University Press | 2008 |
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| Hodges, Hugh | Soon Come: Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics | University of Virginia Press |
2008 |
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| Hornsby, Alton Jr. | Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta | University Press of Florida | 2009 | |||
| Hornsby-Gutting, Angela | Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina 1900-1930 | University Press of Florida | 2009 | |||
| Houck, Davis W. and David E. Dixon (eds) | Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 |
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| Howland, John | Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz | The University of Michigan Press | 2009 | |||
| Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandria | White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity | Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 |
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| Jackson, David H. Jr. | A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi | Florida University Press |
2008 |
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| Jacques, Geoffrey | A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary | University of Massachusetts Press Amherst | 2009 | |||
| Jansen, Jonathan D. | Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past: Knowledge in the Blood | Stanford University Press | 2009 | |||
| Jennings, La Vinia Delois | At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness in Literature and Performance | The University of Tennessee Press | 2009 | |||
| Johnson, Sherita L. | Black Women in New South Literature and Culture | Routledge Taylor and Francis Group | 2009 | |||
| Jones, Bernie D. | Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South | University of Georgia Press | 2009 | |||
| Kane, Daniel | We Saw the Light: Conversations Between the New American Cinema and Poetry | Univesity of Iowa | 2009 | |||
| Kaussen, Valerie | Migrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism | Lexington Books | 2008 |
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| Kahn, Jonathon S. | Divine Discontent: The Religious Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois | Oxford University Press | 2009 | |||
| Keith, LeeAnna | The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, & The Death of Reconstruction | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
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| Klein, Robert Tobias & Ulrike Auga & Viola Pruschenk | Texts, Tasks, and Theories: Versions and Subversions in African Literatures 3 | Rodopi | 2009 | |||
| King-Dorset, Rodreguez | Black Dance in London, 1730-1850: Innovation, Tradition and Resistance | McFarland | 2008 |
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| Kiberd, Declan | Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece | W.W. Norton and Company | 2009 | |||
| Koritz, Amy | Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s | University of Illinois Press | 2009 |
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| Konadu, Kwasi B. | A View from The East: Black Cultural Nationalism and Education in New York City (Second Edition) | Syracuse University Press | 2009 | |||
| Kraut, Anthea | Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
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| LaGrone, Kheven (ed) | Alice Walker's The Color Purple | Rodopi B.V. | 2009 | |||
| Lessing, Doris | Alfred & Emily | Harper Collins Publishers | 2008 | |||
| Leticee, Marie | Education, Assimilation and Identity: The Literary Journey | Caribbean Studies Press | 2009 | |||
| Lewis, David Levering | God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 | W.W. Norton & Company | 2008 |
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| Lewis, Linden and Glyne Griffith with Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler | Color, Hair, and Bone: Race in the Twenty-first Century | Bucknell University Press | 2008 |
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| Lamming, George | Sovereignty of the Imagination: Conversations III | Random House | 2009 | |||
| Levecq, Christine | Slavery and Sentiment: The Politics of Feeling in Black Atlantic Antislavery Writing, 1770-1850 | University Press of New England | 2009 |
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| Lincoln, C. Eric and Lawrence H. Mamiya | The Black Church in the African American Experience | Duke University Press |
2008 |
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| Lock, Graham and David Murray (eds) | The Hearing Eye: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Visual Art | Oxford University Press | 2009 |
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| Logan, William | The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin | Columbia University Press | 2009 | |||
| Loichot, Valerie | Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
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| Loizeaux, Elizabeth Bergmann | Twentieth-Century Poetry and the Visual Arts | Cambridge University Press | 2008 |
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| Loreto, Paola | The Crowning of a Poet's Quest: Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound | Rodopi | 2009 | |||
| M'baye, Babacar | The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African in Early Black Diasporan Narratives | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Madhubuti, Haki R. | Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 | Third World Press | 2009 | |||
| Majid, Anouar | We Are All Moors: Ending Centuries of Crusades against Muslims and Other Minorities | University of Minnesota | 2009 | |||
| Malnig, Julie | Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Martin, Robert K. & Eric Savoy (eds.) | American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative | University of Iowa Press | 2009 | |||
| Martin Jr, S.R. | On the Move: A Black Family's Western Saga | Texas A&M University | 2009 | |||
| Mask, Mia | Divas On Screen | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Materson, Lisa G. | For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 | University of North Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| May, Cedrick | Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835 | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| McCloskey, Patrick J. | The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem | University of California Press | 2008 |
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| McCluskey, Audrey Thomas | The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa | University of Illinois Press | 2009 |
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| McFarland, Pancho | Chicano Rap: Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio | University of Texas Press | 2008 |
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| McIntosh, Janet | The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast | Duke University | 2009 | |||
| McNaughton, Patrick R. | A Bird Dance Near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
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| Menson-Furr, Ladrica | August Wilson's Fences | Continuum | 2008 |
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| Miller, Christopher L. | The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade | Duke University Press | 2008 |
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| Miller, Ivor L. | Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 |
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| Miller, Monica L. | Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Millichap, Joseph R. | A Backward Glance: The Southern Renascence, The Autobiographical Epic, and the Classical Legacy | University of Tennessee Press | 2009 | |||
| Mizruchi, Susan L. | The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 | University of North Carolina | 2008 |
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| Moyo, Dambisa | Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is A Better Way For Africa | Farrar, Straus & Giroux | 2009 |
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| Murove, Munyaradzi Felix ( ed) | African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparitive and Applied Ethics | University of KwaZula-Natal Press | 2009 | |||
| Munro, Martin and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw | Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804-2004 | University of the West Indies Press | 2009 | |||
| Mwangi, Evan Maina | Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality | Suny Press | 2009 | |||
| Nakamura, Lisa | Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
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| Neff, Ali Colleen | Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Newman, Richard S. | Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers | New York University Press | 2008 |
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| Niblett, Michael & Oloff, Kerstin (eds) | Perspectives on the 'Other America' Compartive Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture | Rodopi | 2009 | |||
| Nichols, Patricia Causey | Voices of Our Ancestors: language Contact in Early South Carolina | University of South Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| Norment Jr., Nathaniel (Ed.) | The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Norrell, Robert J. | Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington | Harvard University Press | 2009 |
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| Ntarangwi, Mwenda | East African Hip Hop: Youth, Culture and Globalization | The University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Nunes, Zita | Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
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| Nurse, Donna Bailey | Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing | McClelland & Stewart | 2009 | |||
| Nyong'O, Tavia | The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory | University of Minnesota Press | 2009 | |||
| Okpewho, Isidore & Nkiru Nzegwu (ed.) | The New African Diaspora | Indiana University Press | 2009 | |||
| Oliver, Jose R. | Caciques and Cemi Idols: The Web Spun by Taino Rulers between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico | University of Alabama Press | 2009 | |||
| Oliver, M. Cynthia | Queen of the Virgins: Pageantry and Black Womanhood In the Caribbean | The University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Oltman, Adele | Sacred Mission, Worldly Ambition: Black Christian Nationalism in the Age of Jim Crow | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| Omry, Keren | Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature | Continuum | 2008 |
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| Opie, Frederick Douglass | Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 1882-1923 | University Press Florida | 2009 | |||
| Orr, Leonard | Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism | Syracuse University Press | 2008 |
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| Parker, Jason | Brother's Keeper: The United States, Race and Empire in the British Carribbean, 1937-1962 | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
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| Parks, Gregory S. with Julianne Malveaux and Marc H. Morial | Black Greek-Letter Organizations In the 21st Century: Our Fight has Just Begun | The University Press of Kentucky | 2008 |
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| Peffer, John | Art and the End of Art Apartheid | University of Minnesota Press | 2009 |
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| Perkins, Edward J. & Connie Cronley | Mr. Ambassador: Warrior for Peace | Universtiy of Oklahoma Press | 2009 | |||
| Prince, Bryan | A Shadow on the Household: One Enslaved Family's Incredible Struggle for Freedom | McClelland & Stewart | 2009 | |||
| Price, Melanye T. | Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion | New York University Press | 2009 | |||
| Prestholdt, Jeremy | Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization | University of California Press | 2008 |
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| Radhakrishnan, R. | History, the Human, and the World Between | Duke University Press | 2008 |
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| Raeburn, Bruce Boyd | New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History | The University of Michigan Press | 2009 | |||
| Ramsey, Sonya | Reading, Writing and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Rathke, Annemarie with Doris Lessing and Yvonne Vera | Comparative Views of Zimbabwe | Universitatsverlag WINTER | 2008 |
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| Ravage, John W | Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier (2nd Edition) | University of Utah | 2008 |
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| Rehling, Nicola | Extra-Ordinary Men: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Cinema | Lexington Books | 2009 | |||
| Richardson, Joe M. & Maxine D. Jones | Education for Liberation: The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement | The University of Alabama Press | 2009 | |||
| Rivers, Larry Eugene | Slavery In Florida: Territorial Days To Emancipation | University Press of Florida | 2009 | |||
| Roberts-Miller, Patricia | Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus | University of Alabama Press | 2009 |
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| Rosen, Hannah | Terror In The Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Post-Emancipation South | North Carolina Press | 2009 |
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| Rountree, Wendy | Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel | Peter Lang | 2008 |
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| Rozen, Minna (ed.) | Homelands and Diasporas: Greeks, Jews, and Their Migrations | Palgrave Macmillan | 2009 | |||
| Rugemer, Edward Bartlett | The Problem with Emancipation: The Carribbean Roots of the American Civil War | LSU Press |
2008 |
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| Ryan, Tim A. | Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind | LSU Press | 2008 |
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| Savran, David | Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class | The University of Michigan Press | 2009 | |||
| Schoultz, Lars | That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution | The University of North Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| Schur, Richard L. | Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law | The University of Michigan Press | 2009 | |||
| Schreier, Benjamin | The Power of Negative Thinking | The University of Virginia Press | 2009 | |||
| Schwalm, Leslie A. | Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest | The University of North Carolina Press | 2009 | |||
| Scott, Michelle R. | Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Scully, Randolph Furguson | Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840 | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
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| Seigel, Micol | Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States | Duke University | 2009 |
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| Seniors, Paula Marie | Beyond Life Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplife, Identity, and Politics in Musical Theater | Ohio State Press | 2009 | |||
| Sensibar, Judith L. | Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art | Yale University | 2009 |
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| Shaw, Todd C. | Now is the Time: Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Shuler, Jack | Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Simmons, Kimberly Eison | Reconstructing Racial Identity and the African Past in the Dominican Republic | University Press Florida | 2009 | |||
| Smith, Catherine Parsons | William Grant Still | University of Illinois Press |
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| Smith, Kevin E. and James V. Miller | Speaking With the Ancestors: Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region | University of Alabama | 2009 |
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| Smith, Lindsey Claire | Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature: From Faulkner and Morrisson to Walker and Silko | Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 |
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| Smith, Robert Samuel | Race, Labor and Civil Rights: Griggs Versus Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity | LSU Press | 2008 |
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| Sobel, Mechal | Painting a Hidden Life: The Art of Bill Traylor | LSU Press | 2009 |
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| Somers- Willett, Susan B.A. | The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry: Race, Identity and the Performance of Popular Verse in America | The University of Michigan Press | 2009 | |||
| Spanos, William V. | The Legacy of Edward W. Said | University of Illinois Press | 2009 |
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| Spruill, Marjorie Julian, Valinda W. Littlefield & Joan Marie Johnson (eds.) | South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times Volume 1 | The University of Georgia Press | 2009 | |||
| Stamps, S. David and Miriam Burney Stamps | Salt City and Its Black Community: A Sociological Study of Syracuse, New York | Syracuse University Press | 2008 |
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| Stein, Karen F. | Reading, Learning, Teaching Toni Morrison | Peter Lang Publishing Inc. | 2009 | |||
| Strode, Tim and Tim Wood | The Hip Hop Reader | Pearson Longman | 2008 |
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| Stuckey, Sterling | African Culture and Malville's Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
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| Sumler-Edmond, Janice L. | The Secret Trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault: The Life and Trials of a Free Woman of Color in Antebellum Georgia | University of Arkansas Press | 2008 |
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| Sweeney, James R. | Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954-1959 | The University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| Szmanko, Klara | Invisibility in African American and Asian American Literature: A Comparative Study | McFarland | 2008 |
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| Taubenfeld, Aviva F. | Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America | New York University | 2008 |
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| Thomas, Lorenzo | Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition | University of Michigan Press | 2008 |
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| Thomas, Susan | Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana's Lyric Stage | University of Illinois Press | 2008 |
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| Thompson, Lisa B. | Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Thornton, Robert J. | Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa | University of California Press | 2008 |
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| Tolentino, Cynthia H. | America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology | University of Minnesota Press | 2009 | |||
| Tourgee, Albion W. | Bricks Without Straw | Duke University Press | 2009 | |||
| Tracy, Steven C. | John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play | Oxford University Press | 2008 |
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| Tucker, William H. | The Cattell Controversy: Race, Science, and Ideology | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Turner, Patricia A. (foreword by Kyra E. Hicks) | Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 |
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| Tuhkanen, Mikko | The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory and Richard Wright | SUNY Press | 2009 | |||
| Martin, Robert K. & Eric Savoy (eds.) | American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative | University of Iowa Press | 2009 | |||
| Vernon, Alex | On Tarzan | University of Georgia Press | 2008 |
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| Vials, Chris | Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947 | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 | |||
| Vladislavic, Ivan | Portrait With Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked | W.W. Norton & Company | 2009 | |||
| Vogel, Shane | The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance | The University of Chicago Press | 2009 |
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| Wainstock, Dennis D. | Malcom X, African American Revolutionary | McFarland | 2009 |
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| Walker, Corey D.B. | A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America | University of Illinois | 2008 |
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| Walker, Lee H. | Rediscovering Black Conservatism | The Heartland Institute | 2009 | |||
| Walkowitz, Rebecca L. | Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization | University of Wisconsin Press | 2008 |
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| Ward, Jerry W. Jr. | The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery (Uncorrected Galley) | UNO Press | 2009 |
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| Washington, Margaret | Sojourner Truth's America | University of Illinois Press | 2009 | |||
| Wehrs, Donald R. | Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives: From Ethiopia Unbound to Things Fall Apart, 1911-1958 | Ashgate | 2008 |
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| Wehrs, Donald R. | Islam, Ethics, Revolt: Politics and Piety in Francohopne West African and Maghreb Narrative | Rowman & Littlefield | 2008 |
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| Weir-Soley, Donna Aza | Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistence in Black Women's Writings | University Press of Florida | 2009 | |||
| Wenzel, Jennifer | Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond | University of Chicago Press | 2009 | |||
| Wheeler, Peter | Chains and Freedom or, the Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler | University of Alabama Press | 2009 | |||
| White, Ronald C. | A. Lincoln: A Biography | Random House | 2009 |
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| Wilkison, Kyle G. | Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas 1870-1914 | Texas A&M University Press | 2008 |
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| Wilks, Jennifer M. | Race, Gender, and Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West | LSU Press | 2009 |
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| Williams, Dana (Ed.) | Contemporary African American Fiction: New Critical Essays | The Ohio State University | 2009 |
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| Williams, Yohuru & Jama Lazerow | Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party | Duke University | 2008 |
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| Wilson, Lucy | In Due Season: Essays on Novels of Development by Caribbean Women Writers | Unviersity Press of America | 2008 |
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| Winkiel, Laura | Modernism, Race and Manifestos | Cambridge University Press | 2008 |
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| Winks, Christopher | Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature | Palgrave Macmillan | 2009 | |||
| Wolters, Raymond | Race and Education: 1954-2007 | University of Missouri | 2008 |
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| Wong, Edlie L. | Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel | New York University Press | 2009 | |||
| Worsley, Shawan M. | Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture | Routledge | 2009 | |||
| Young, Elizabeth | Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor | New York University Press | 2008 |
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| Young, Robert | Signs of Race in Poststructrualism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race | University Press of America | 2009 | |||
| Zauditu-Selassie, K. | African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison | University Press of Florida | 2009 |
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| Accilien, Cecile | Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures | Lexington Books | 2008 |
| Bibler, Michael P. | Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 | University of Virginia | 2009 |
| Blum, Edward J. and Jason R. Young | The Souls of W.E.B. DuBois: New Essays and Reflections | Mercer University Press | 2009 |
| Borland, Isabel Alvarez & Lynette M.F. Bosch | Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities | SUNY Press | 2009 |
| Boulukos, George | The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture | Cambridge Press | 2008 |
| Byrd, Alexander | Captives and Voyagers: Black Migrants Across the Eighth-Century British Atlantic World | LSU Press | 2009 |
| Carpio, Glenda R. | Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery | Oxford Press | 2008 |
| Carter, Julian | The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America | Durham and London | 2007 |
| Caster, Peter | Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film | The Ohio State University Press | 2008 |
| Chaney, Michael A. | Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative | Indiana University Press | 2008 |
| Cudjoe, Selwyn R. | Caribbean Visionary: A.R.F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation | University Press of Mississippi | 2009 |
| Curry, James | Africa Writes Back: The African Writers Series & The Launch of African Literature | Ohio University Press | 2008 |
| D'Almeida, Irene Assiba | A Rain of Words: A Bilingual Anthology of Women's Poetry in Francophone Africa | University of Virginia Press | 2009 |
| Davies, Carol Boyce | Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Dunning, Stefanie K. | Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemproray African American Culture | Indiana University Press | 2009 |
| Doyle, Laura | Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Evans, William McKee | Open Wound: The Long View of Race in America | University of Illinois Press | 2009 |
| Everett, Anna | Digital Diaspora: A Race for Cyberspace | SUNY Press | 2009 |
| Fergus, Devin | Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980 | University of Georgia | 2009 |
| Foreman, P. Gabrielle | Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century | University New Mexico Press | 2009 |
| Frindethie, K. Martial | The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures | McFarland | 2008 |
| Fulton, Dawn | Signs of Dissent: Maryse Conde and Postcolonial Criticism | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
| Green, Tara T. | From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature | Mercer University Press |
2008 |
| Harris, Trudier | The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South | Louisiana State University | 2009 |
| Hoffnung-Garskof, Jesse | A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 | Princeton University | 2008 |
| Iton, Richard | In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics & Popular Culture In the Post-Civil Rights Era | Oxford Press |
2008 |
| La Vinia Delouis Jennings | Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa | Cambridge University Press | 2008 |
| King, Debra Walker | African Americans and the Culture of Pain | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
| Lamothe, Daphne | Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2008 |
| Larkin, Brian | Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Lock, Graham and David Murray (eds) | Thriving on a Riff: Jazz & Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film | Oxford University Press | 2009 |
| Luis-Brown, David | Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico and the United States | Duke University Press |
2008 |
| Mandel, Naomi | Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America | University of Virgina Press | 2008 |
| McVeigh, Rory | The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing and National Politics | University of Minnesota Press | 2009 |
| Michael, John | Identify and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
| Muyumba, Walton | The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation and Philospical Pragmatism | University of Chicago Press | 2009 |
| Nepomynyashchy, Catherine; Svobodny, Nicole; and Trigos, Ludmilla A. | Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness | Northwestern University Press | 2006 |
| Nesbitt, Nick | Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightment | University of Virginia Press | 2008 |
| Newstok, Scott L, & Thompson, Ayanna (Eds) | Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Preformance | Palgrave MacMillian | 2009 |
| Parham, Marisa | Haunting and Displacement if African American Literature and Culture | Routledge | 2009 |
| Perry, Jeffrey B. | Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 | Columbia University Press | 2009 |
Ramey, Lauri & Breman,. Paul |
The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975: A Research Compendium | Ashgate publishing Co. | 2008 |
| Rottenberg, Catherine | Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature | University Press of New England | 2008 |
| Selzer, Linda Furgerson | Charles Johnson: In Context | University of Massachusetts Press | 2009 |
| Sexton, Jared | Algamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
| Shulman, George | American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture | University of Minnesota Press | 2008 |
| Snodgrass, Mary Ellen | Jamaica Kincaid: A Literary Companion | McFarland | 2008 |
| Sundquist , Eric J. | The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction | University of Georgia Pres |
2006 |
| Tally, Justine | Toni Morrison's Beloved: Origins | Routledge | 2009 |
| Tidwell, John Edgar and Steven Tracy | After Winter: The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown | Oxford University Press | 2009 |
| Whalan, Mark | The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro | Florida University Press | 2008 |
| West, Michael O. & William G. Martin & Fanon Che Wilkins | From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution | The University of North Carolina Press | 2009 |
| White, Bob W. | Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobuty's Zaire | Duke University Press | 2008 |
| Wright, W.D. | Crisis of the Black Intellectual | Third World Press | 2007 |
| Woolfork,F Lisa | Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture | University of Illinois Press | 2009 |
| Yu, Timothy | Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 | Stanford University Press | 2009 |
| Zaborowska, Magalena J. | James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile | Duke University Press | 2009 |
| Zamir, Shamoon (ed) | The Cambridge Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois | Cambridge | 2008 |
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