
Journeys and Journals: Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora
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Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black...

The Hindered Hand
Sutton E. Griggs, John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger
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Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister...

Blake; or, the Huts of America: A Corrected Edition
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Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American--and indeed...
Octavia E. Butler
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I began writing about power because I had so little, Octavia E. Butler once said. Butler's life as...

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Kindred
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The first science fiction written by a black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of black...
Slavery Time Travel Race
Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
Rosemarie Freeney Harding and Rachel Elizabeth Harding
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An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality...

White Like She
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* After 15 years, Bob Fingerman's race and gender-swapping, pseudo-science-fiction social satire is...

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
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A sensual, dazzling introduction to the work of Kathleen Collins, a pioneering African-American...