Northeastern Library of Black Literature |
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Alien Land Action-packed and absorbing, a grim but sensitive picture of race and identity in America |
Savoy, Willard |
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Black No More Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Working of Science in the Land of the Free, A.D. 1933-1940 What would happen to the race problem in America if black people could suddenly become white? |
Schuyler, George Samuel; Miller, James, foreword |
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Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line Dispatches from a Black Journalista This lively and thoughtful book explores what it means to be black in an allegedly postracial America |
Kaplan, Erin Aubry and Michael Eric Dyson, fwd. |
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Home To Harlem A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue |
McKay, Claude, Cooper, Wayne F., fwd. |
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Infants Of The Spring A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance. |
Thurman, Wallace; Singh, Amritjit, foreword |
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Love and Marriage in Early African America An eye-opening anthology of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American primary writings on love, courtship, and family |
Foster, Frances Smith, ed. |
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Loving Her Originally published in 1974, Loving Her is the first novel by an African American author to deal explicitly with interracial lesbian love. |
Shockley, Ann Allen; Lane, Alycee, foreword |
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Platitudes A playful, irreverent look at the African-American literary community. |
Ellis, Trey; Ashe, Bertram D., foreword |
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Sarah Phillips "Andrea Lee's authority as a writer comes of an unstinting honesty and a style at once simple and yet luminous." -- New York Times Book Review |
Lee, Andrea; Smith, Valerie, foreword |
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The Seeking Now back in print, the groundbreaking memoir of one of the first black families in Vermont |
Thomas, Will; Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Edited, and with an Introduction and Afterword to the New Edition, by Mark J. Madigan and Dan Gediman |
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Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light A Novel of Some Probability This complex and inventive novel by one of the most significant African American writers of the twentieth century reflects the author's apocalyptic vision of black revolutionary impulses and reactionary white conspiracies in the late 1960s. |
Williams, John A.; Yarborough, Richard, foreword |
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Trumbull Park Frank Browns classic novel of racial strife in a Chicago housing project is once again in print. |
Brown, Frank London |