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The Malevolent Volume
Subverting celebrated classics of poetry and mythology and examining horrors from contemporary film and cultural fact, National Book Award winner Justin Phillip Reed engages darkness as an aesthetic to conjure the revenant animus that lurks beneath the exploited civilities of...
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Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems
Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics―racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy―showing us that altering our reading strategies frames our experiences. Ultimately, she finds that words matter, savoring the small ones: articles, pronouns,...
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Slave Play
“The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — Wesley Morris, New York Times The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation—in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in the crack of the whip....
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Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty
From martyr to insult, how “Uncle Tom” has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their...
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Daylight: Poems
Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Award for Lesbian PoetrydayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of sexuality and race.Growing up,...
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Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can't Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri, exploring the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history,...
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Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole
One of the most popular and memorable American musicians of the 20th century, Nat King Cole (1919-65) is remembered today as both a pianist and a singer, a feat rarely accomplished in the world of popular music. Now, in this...
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The Age of Phillis
Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis WheatleyIn 1773, a young, African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry that challenged Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Based on fifteen years of archival research,...
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Seeing the Body: Poems
Nominee for the 2021 NAACP Image Award in PoetryAn elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes...
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Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy
In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city’s famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a...
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Here Is the Sweet Hand: Poems
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRYThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique, and myth, of female...
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Sometimes I Never Suffered: Poems
Spanning religious, historical, and political themes, a new collection from the award-winning poetI think now more than halfOf life is death but I can’t dieEnough for all the life I seeIn Sometimes I Never Suffered, his seventh collection of poems, Shane...
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AKBAR PAPERS IN AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY
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