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

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The Image of the European in African Art

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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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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...

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

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This volume cuts through romantic myth, combining period photographs and illustrations with new d...

An exciting revision of the best-selling anthology for African American literary survey courses.

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

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The only children's book ever written and illustrated by the legendary American artist, this is t...

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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...

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

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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...

Born a slave in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential an...

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Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery....

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

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In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and...