Southern Road


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Black American Short Stories


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A collection of short stories by African-American authors.




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Sterling A. Brown


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Looking Through Philosophy in Black


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The book explores Africana existentialism in relation to issues of race, identity, liberation, freedom, alienation, responsibility and bad faith and includes key essays from More's corpus alongside his philosophical memoir.




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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880


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The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America 1860–1880 has justly been called a classic.




Sterling A. Brown


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Black World/Negro Digest


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Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.




The Southern Hospitality Myth


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Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear. Szczesiul looks at how and why hospitality has been so generalized as to make it a cultural trait of an entire region of the country.