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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature ... draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration...
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"With forty million copies sold, To Kill a Mockingbird's poignant but clear-eyed examination of human nature has cemented its status as a global classic. Tom Santopietro's new book ... takes a 360-degree look at the Mockingbird phenomenon both on page and screen. Santopietro traces the writing of To Kill a Mockingbird, the impact of the Pulitzer Prize, and investigates both the claims that Lee's book is actually racist and the worldwide controversy...
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"Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin's 1962 novel, Another Country, is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality. In her volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her appreciation of this seminal novel, demonstrating how its myriad themes-- including relations between men and women (gay...
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Graywolf Press
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2019.
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English
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"White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties "white flight"--The movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns--to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping...
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Oxford University Press
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[2017]
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English
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Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of the places that racism hides -- and thus perhaps the best place to oppose it -- is books for young people. Philip Nel presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's...
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University Press of Mississippi
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[1997]
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English
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This study of America's attitudes toward jazz focuses on a momentous period in postwar history - from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Black Power Movement. Exploring the diverse representations of jazz and jazz musicians in literature and popular culture, it connects this uneven reception and skewed use of jazz with the era's debates about race and racial difference.
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The Ohio State University Press
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[2017]
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English
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"Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of essays devoted to studying the intersection of race/ethnicity and narrative theories. Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory and critical race theory as applied to ethnic American literature, exploring the interpretive possibilities of this critical intersection. Taken as a whole,...
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Lumen
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2018.
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Español
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"¿Qué es la raza y por qué es importante? ¿Qué motiva la tendencia humana a construir Otros? ¿Por qué la presencia de esos Otros nos asusta tanto? Basándose en sus Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison aborda estas y otras cuestiones que dominan cada vez más la política mundial: la raza, el miedo, las fronteras, los movimientos de masas, el deseo de pertenencia... En su búsqueda de respuestas, la novelista revisa cuidadosamente sus propios recuerdos,...
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University of Minnesota Press
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[2016]
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English
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In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction--including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures--to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination. Carrington's argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has been both marginalized and celebrated offers a...
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Fence Books
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[2015]
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English
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"To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial--a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one. "It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as a historical, as a generative place where race doesn't and shouldn't enter, a place of bodies that transcend the legislative, the economic--in other words, transcend the stuff that doesn't lend...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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2023.
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English
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"This introduction to Asian American theater charts ten of the most pivotal moments in the history of the Asian diaspora in the USA and how those moments have been reflected in theater. Designed for weekly use on Asian American theater courses, ten chosen milestones move chronologically from the earliest contact between Japan and the West through the impact of the Vietnam War and the resurgent 'yellow peril' hysteria of Covid 19. Each chapter emphasizes...
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Oxford University Press
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2000.
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English
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"In Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination, Adam Lively offers an exploration of how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature, and how changing notions of racial identity helped to shape modern consciousness." "Lively traces ideas of racial difference to their earliest expression in European culture, at the time of the Europeans' first encounters with African and American peoples, and follows these ideas to their...
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