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A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (Multicultural Literature)
Black internationalist feminism
The Negro's God
Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel
The several lives of Chester Himes
Private Lives, Proper Relations
Ten is the age of darkness
Contemporary African American theater
Unchained Voices
Coming up down home
More power in the pulpit
Entrance Place of Wonders
Autobiografía Malcolm X
Burnin' Down the House
From a Child's Heart
Double-take
Contemporary Black biography
Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature
The Black Arts Movement
Speculative Blackness
A song flung up to heaven
Into and out of dislocation
Confirmation
Mother imagery in the novels of Afro-Caribbean women
New Black feminist criticism, 1985-2000
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" Speech
Words of Fire
The black imagination, science fiction, futurism and the speculative
American Negro poetry
James Baldwin
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