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Afro-American authors

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Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature

Houston A. Baker

1984

American Negro poetry

Arna Bontemps

1963

Lift every voice

Philip Sheldon Foner, Robert J. Branham

1998

Double Stitch

Patricia Bell-Scott

1991

Black comedy

Safiya Karimah

1997

Reconstructing womanhood

Hazel V. Carby

1987

Wounds of passion

bell hooks

1997

Reading black, reading feminist

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

1990

Conjuring

Marjorie Pryse, Hortense J. Spillers

1985

Talking at the gates

James Campbell

1991

Go the Way Your Blood Beats

Shawn Stewart Ruff

1996

Index to Black Poetry

Dorothy Hilton Chapman

1974

Performing the word

Fahamisha Patricia Brown

1999

Black women writers at work

Claudia Tate

1985

Loose Canons

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

1992

Claiming the heritage

Missy Dehn Kubitschek

1991

Violence in the Black imagination

Ronald Takaki

1972

The Melancholy of Race

Anne Anlin Cheng

2001

Harlem renaissance and beyond

Lorraine Elena Roses, Ruth Elizabeth Randolph

1990

Books by African-American authors and illustrators for children and young adults

Helen E. Williams

1991

Black women writers (1950-1980)

Mari Evans

1984

Erotique noire = Black Erorica

Roseann P. Bell, Miriam Decosta-Willis, Reginald Martin

1992

Black authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults

Barbara Thrash Murphy, Deborah Murphy

1999

Within the Circle

Angelyn Mitchell

1994

Four Black revolutionary plays

Amiri Baraka

1969

Black women as cultural readers

Jacqueline Bobo

1995

Black women, writing, and identity

Carole Boyce Davies

1994

The Black feminist reader

Joy James, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

2000

Race, gender, and desire

Elliott Butler-Evans

1989

Black women novelists

Barbara T. Christian, Barbara Christian

1980