Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
10 best books like Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins): Clotel: or, The President's Daughter, Now, Voyager, Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900, From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, Hobomok Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child, Our Nig, The Mountaintop, The Republic of Poetry: Poems, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader
| Author | William Wells Brown |
| ISBN | 0142437727 |
First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters, Clotel and Althesa. The Virginian who buys Clotel falls...
| Author | Olive Higgins Prouty |
“Don’t let’s ask for the moon! We have the stars!” The film that concludes with Bette Davis’s famous words, reaffirmed Davis’s own stardom and changed the way Americans smoked cigarettes. But few contemporary fans of this story of a woman’s self-realization know its source. Olive...
| Author | Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
| ISBN | 0312116950 |
After reading these accounts from late 19th and early 20th century U.S.A. of lynching by mostly white men with complicity and at times instigation and encouragement from white women, against black men, women and children, I am disgusted and discouraged with humanity. Although I had heard the song...
| Author | Minister Faust |
| ISBN | 0345466373 |
They're Earth's mightiest superteam—and dysfunctional as hell.
OMNIPOTENT MAN — a body with the density of steel, and a brain to match
THE FLYING SQUIRREL — aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night
IRON LASS — mythology's greatest...
| Author | Annelise Orleck |
| ISBN | 0807050318 |
In "Storming Caesars Palace," historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring "We can do it and do it better," these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In...
| Author | Lydia Maria Francis Child |
Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for another man. This novel, originally published in 1824, is a powerful first among antipatriarchal and antiracist novels in American literature....
| Author | Harriet E. Wilson |
| ISBN | 0142437778 |
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household....
| Author | Katori Hall |
| ISBN | 1408147033 |
Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968, on the night before Martin Luther King is assassinated and on the day he delivered a speech in which he foretold his own fate, “I may not get there with...
| Author | Martín Espada |
| ISBN | 0393062562 |
The Republic of Poetry
The Republic of Poetry
by Martín Espada
Hardcover 96 pages
W.W. Norton, October, 2006
One cannot read the title to Martín Espada’s new book, The Republic of Poetry without recalling Plato’s banning of poets from his republic due...
| Author | David Levering Lewis |
| ISBN | 0140170367 |
What is a Renaissance? What makes up a Renaissance and how is it sustained? Is it artists, musicians, inventors, and other gifted people all thinking the same way and moving the same way? Or is it similar ideas expressed in different ways? The common goal that African-American people came together and...
| Author | Virginia Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1416914137 |
"We'll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just because we've never ever gone alone like this!" And the first thing Elizabeth does is give herself and her younger brother, John, new names -- Geeder and Toeboy.
The farm is special too, with its...
| Author | Nellie Y. McKay |
| ISBN | 0393977781 |
Welcomed on publication as "brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from," The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights.
This landmark anthology includes...
| Author | Langston Hughes |
| ISBN | 1400034027 |
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th-century American literature . . . a powerful interpreter of the American experience.” —The Philadelphia...
| Author | Frank J. Webb |
| ISBN | 1426446241 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| ISBN | 0312163746 |
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella
This definitive edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis Life in the Iron Mills together with a broad selection of historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration...
| Author | Ann Petry |
| ISBN | 0618007105 |
When Link Williams, a college-educated twenty-six-year-old African-American man, falls for Camilo Sheffield, a wealthy married white woman, things will never be the same in the sleepy New England town of Monmouth, Connecticut. Set in the 1950s, this unforgettable classic deftly evokes a tragic...
| Author | Frances Ellen Watkins Harper |
| ISBN | 1426460287 |
Being very desirous that one of the race so long distinguished in the cause of freedom for her intellectual worth as Mrs. Harper has had the honor of being should not at this late date in life make a blunder which might detract from her own good name I naturally proposed to await developments before deciding...
| Author | Sutton Elbert Griggs |
| ISBN | 0812971604 |
Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel—a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenation, exploitation, and black empowerment—was a major bestseller in its day. The dramatic story of a conciliatory black man and a mulatto nationalist...
| Author | Mildred D. Taylor |
| ISBN | 0142500755 |
With the depression bearing down on her family and food in short supply, Cassie Logan isn't sure where her next meal will come from. But there is one thing that she knows will always be there-the whispering trees outside her window. Cassie's trees are a steady source of comfort to her, but they also happen...
| Author | Frederick Douglass |
| ISBN | 1604592362 |
The Heroic Slave was Frederick Douglass' only piece of fiction. He wrote it in response to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society's request for a submission to be included in their anthology Autographs for Freedom. The Heroic Slave is a retelling of an actual rebellion led by Madison Washington...
The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty
| Author | Lawrence Otis Graham |
| ISBN | 0060184124 |
This is the true story of America's first black dynasty. The years after the Civil War represented an astonishing moment of opportunity for African-Americans. The rush to build a racially democratic society from the ruins of slavery is never more evident than in the personal history of Blanche Kelso...
| Author | Sheree Thomas |
| ISBN | 0446693774 |
Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which named it a Notable Book of the Year.
Contents
Fiction. Ibo landing / ihsan bracy --
The quality of sand / Cherene Sherrard --
Yahimba's...
