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African American Life Series

45 primary works • 45 total works
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.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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4.34 · 3895 Ratings · 376 Reviews · published 1969 · 40 editions
This book is both a satire of the civil rights pro…

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    Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
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    3.77     · 79 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1991 · 3 editions
    A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gi…

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    The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1990 · 5 editions
    While many historically significant or interesting…

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    Three Plays: The Broken Calabash / Parables for a Season / The Reign of Wazobia
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    3.25     · 4 Ratings · published 1993 · 4 editions
    This anthology of plays by Tess Onwueme, one of th…

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    Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918–1967
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    4.44     · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1993 · 3 editions
    Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes offers an authentic an…

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    Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper 1825-1911
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · published 1994 · 3 editions
    Book by Boyd, Melba Joyce

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    Let's Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning
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    3.83     · 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1996 · 7 editions
    Building on themes presented in Voices of the Self…

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    Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 4 editions
    This compilation of sixteen plays written during t…

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    A History of the African American People: The History, Traditions, and Culture of African Americans
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    4.43     · 7 Ratings · published 1995 · 6 editions
    In their long history, African Americans have crea…

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    Tell it to Women
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    3.33     · 6 Ratings · published 1997 · 4 editions
    Using the magic of movement, dance, and drama, and…

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    Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora: An Analysis of Modern Afrocentric Political Movements
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    4.75     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1993 · 2 editions
    This groundbreaking volume analyzes important case…

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    Walkin' over Medicine
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    4.00     · 8 Ratings · published 1998 · 5 editions
    Representing more than twenty years of anthropolog…

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    Negroes with Guns
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    4.52     · 1181 Ratings · 169 Reviews · published 1962 · 44 editions
    First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the …

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    Ideology and Change: The Transformation of the Caribbean Left
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    3.00     · 3 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1998 · 4 editions
    Ideology and Change provides the first comprehensi…

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    "Winds Can Wake Up the Dead": An Eric Walrond Reader
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · published 1998 · 2 editions
    Eric Walrond (1898-1966), a significant figure in …

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    Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 1999 · 3 editions
    Race and Ideology reveals how various strands of r…

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    The Politics of Black Empowerment: The Transformation of Black Activism in Urban America
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    0.00     · published 1992 · 3 editions
    In analyzing Black politics since the late 1960s, …

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    The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Institutional racism has had a major impact on the…

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    What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three: Four Plays by Ron Milner
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    4.50     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 3 editions
    A collection of four plays by contemporary playwri…

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    Looking Within/Mirar Adentro: Selected Poems/Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000
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    4.06     · 33 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 5 editions
    A bilingual edition of poetry from an important Cu…

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    Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens
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    0.00     · published 2003 · 2 editions
    No serious history of the development of the Afric…

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    What Mama Said
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    3.52     · 23 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 3 editions
    Renowned playwright Osonye Tess Onwueme's powerful…

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    White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy and the Black Community
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    4.21     · 14 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 3 editions
    The rise of the Conservative movement in the Unite…

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    Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson
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    4.17     · 12 Ratings · published 2003 · 2 editions
    From a poet whose vision and vistas embrace Detroi…

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    Churches and Urban Government in Detroit and New York, 1895-1994
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2004 · 3 editions
    Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement…

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    Caribbean Labor and Politics: Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 3 editions
    Having more in common than their deaths on the sam…

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    Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture
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    3.38     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
    Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical int…

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    The Quotations of Mayor Coleman A. Young
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    4.27     · 15 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1991 · 5 editions
    This little red book brings together many of the l…

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    "Gettin' Our Groove On": Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation
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    4.00     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 2 editions
    Because of the increasing influence of hip hop mus…

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    Manipulating the Sacred: Yorùbá Art, Ritual, and Resistance in Brazilian Candomblé
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2002 · 3 editions
    At a time when the art of the African diaspora has…

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    "Look for Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · published 2005 · 3 editions
    Interdisciplinary in scope, this anthology redress…

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    Just for a Thrill: Poems
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    0.00     · published 2005 · 4 editions
    "Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet …

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    Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
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    4.07     · 61 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2007 · 7 editions
    In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disp…

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    Dear Chester, Dear John: Letters Between Chester Himes and John A. Williams (African American Life)
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    4.75     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
    Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as…

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    When the Church Becomes Your Party: Contemporary Gospel Music
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    3.33     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
    In When the Church Becomes Your Party, author Debo…

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    Race and Remembrance: A Memoir
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    4.10     · 10 Ratings · published 2008 · 5 editions
    Race and Remembrance tells the remarkable life sto…

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    The Golden Underground
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
    The Golden Underground takes its title from a sect…

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    Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings
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    4.53     · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
    Dudley Randall was one of the foremost voices in A…

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    Keepin' It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · published 2011 · 3 editions
    In Keepin' It Hushed, Vorris L. Nunley investigate…

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    Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook: A James Boggs Reader
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    4.50     · 30 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 2 editions
    Born in the rural American south, James Boggs live…

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    From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
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    4.00     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2011 · 4 editions
    In From Bourgeois to Black Middle-Class Performanc…

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    If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls
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    4.70     · 10 Ratings · published 2011 · 6 editions
    In If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Sm…

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    Bearing Witness to African American Literature: Validating and Valorizing Its Authority, Authenticity, and Agency
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    0.00     · published 2012 · 4 editions
    Bearing Witness to African American Literature col…

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    "Black People Are My Business": Toni Cade Bambara's Practices of Liberation
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · 4 editions
    "Black People Are My Business" studies the works o…

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    The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
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    4.40     · 53 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2004 · 4 editions
    "If W.E.B Du Bois, the antecedent of today's black…

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