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Series Editor: Melba Joyce Boyd, Wayne State University
The African American Life Series publishes scholarship representative of the historical, social, cultural, and economic experiences of African Americans. Because Wayne State University Press is located in Detroit, the series has a particular interest in topics related to urban life and culture.
Richmond Public Library
Lively illustrations depict the close bond between grandfather and grandson during a child’s summer visit to the South.
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 explosive, award-winning novel, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 50-year-young classic that provides commentary on the racial inequities in the US in the late 1960s - and today.
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.
Exploration of Bambara’s practices of liberation that encourage resistance to oppression and solidarity.
An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.
Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.
Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.
Collects nearly four decades’ worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.
Examines the barbershop as a rhetorical site in African American culture across genres, including fiction, film, poetry, and theater.
Collects significant poetry, short stories, and essays by celebrated African American poet and publisher Dudley Randall.
New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.
Memoir of respected Detroit civic and civil rights leader Arthur L. Johnson.
A look at the innovations of contemporary performers of modern gospel music and their roots in the African American Christian church.
A revealing collection of correspondence between Chester Himes and John A. Williams, two prominent twentieth-century African American novelists.
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
A breakthrough collection of poetry from a distinctive new urban voice.
This anthology is the first to fully integrate the political and literary writings of Anglophone Caribbean authors in the Harlem Renaissance.
The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals.
A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.