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In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing ...

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people...

An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people...

The Image of the European in African Art

A long-forgotten Black abolitionist who liberated captive workers by the wagonload, brilliantly s...

Renowned scholar and New York Times bestselling author Gates delivers a stirring and authoritativ...

The man Time magazine hailed as one of America's finest preachers presents a collection of forty ...

Selections from the Prose Writings - Ed. with notes and an introd. by Lewis E. Gates is an unchan...

A record of the Blakes of Somersetshire: - Especially in the line of William Blake, of Dorchester...

Ravished Armenia tells the tragic and horrific story of Aurora Mardiganian, a young Armenian woma...

Six Women's Slave narratives contains stories that embody most of the predominant themes and narr...

'This is a book of stories,' writes Henry Louis Gates, 'and all might be described as 'narratives...

William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore w...

These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced...

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A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath Firs...

'Three scholars of Soyinka and Nigerian literature have compiled this preliminary bibliography of...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may conta...

The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has ...

Ravished Armenia tells the tragic and horrific story of Aurora Mardiganian, a young Armenian woma...

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, ...

Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the 'talented tenth,' an Afri...

This book, first published in 1984, is divided into two sections, thus clarifying the nature of b...

With a New Introduction and Notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Richard J. EllisA fascinating fus...

Originally published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane remains an innovative literary work-part drama, ...

The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists...

The Impact of Africa looks at changes in Western perspectives on African art and representations ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the Afr...

When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experien...

In a highly original and historic celebration of black Americans and their contributions to cultu...

Finding Oprah's Roots will not only endow readers with a new appreciation for the key contributio...

Prominent African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., traced Oprah's roots and shares the le...

Who are we, and where do we come from? The fundamental drive to answer these questions is at the ...

'Any serious effort to understand how the Black civil rights generation found role models, vision...

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The New Annotated African American Folktales revolutionises the canon like no other volume. Henry...

Afrique Book Two

The distinguished scholar examines the origins and history of African-American ancestry as he pro...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people...

Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johns...

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This edition also includes: The illustrations printed in the original book; Contemporary sources ...

African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy Africa...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people...

In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people...