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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too." Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture.
"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of Black performance, in this moment when Black performers are coming...
364) Zora Neale Hurston
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Juniors
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
A biography of the African-American writer, well-known for her novels and collections of folklore.
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description
"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew,"...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring-and until now, untold-story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work.
370) James Baldwin
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
Discusses the life of James Baldwin, his activism in civil rights, and the importance of his writings.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
In the early eighties, the peaceful, reclusive life of poet and writer Alice Walker was interrupted by the appearance of three extraordinary gifts: a widely praised best-selling novel (The Color Purple), the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Steven Spielberg to make her novel into a film that would become a major international event. This last gift, which Walker identifies as "the knock at the door," led her into the labyrinth of a never-before-experienced...
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