African American Life Series

An explosive, award-winning novel in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black miltancy.

An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.

An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.

Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.

Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.

New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.

A look at the innovations of contemporary performers of modern gospel music and their roots in the African American Christian church.

An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.

This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance.