A Students' Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present is designed to assist college students (and others) who are relative novices to the study

Fifty-one essays by writers such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as critics and academics such as Henry Louis

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, a

Scholarly studies about the use of books by and about African-American children and young adults in classrooms across the United States.

After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding its first appearance in the 1960s, Neo-Slave Narratives explores the complex relationship between