Category: Novels

  • Neither Black nor White: The Saga of an American Family The New World Africa Press 2006-03-03 252 pages 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ISBN-10: 0976876124; ISBN-13: 978-0976876120 Joseph E. Holloway, Professor of Pan African Studies California State University, Northridge Historical novel, which traces the history of the Hadnot family from Gloucester, England in 1585…

  • The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Volume 1) Oxford University Press 1988 480 pages 4-5/8 x 6-1/2 Hardback ISBN13: 978-0-19-505250-3; ISBN10: 0-19-505250-1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Edited by Gloria Hull Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women…

  • Iola Leroy or Shadows Uplifted 1893 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Project Gutenberg EBook 2004-05-14 #12352 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Read the entire book here.

  • Oreo Northeastern University Press (now University Press of New England) 2000 (Originially published in 1974.) 224 pages 6 x 9″ Fran Ross Forward by Harryette Mullen This uproariously funny satire about relations between African Americans and Jews is as fresh and outrageous today as when it was first published in 1974. Born to a Jewish…

  • A masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance and a canonical work in both the American and the African American literary traditions, “Cane” is now available in a revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition.

  • Imitation of Life Duke University Press 2004 (Originially published in 1933) 352 pages 6 b&w photos, 1 line drawing Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-3324-1 Fannie Hurst (1889–1968) Edited by: Daniel Itzkovitz, Associate Professor of  American Literature and Culture Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts A bestseller in 1933, and subsequently adapted into two beloved and controversial films, Imitation…

  • Where The Long Grass Bends Sarabande Books 2004-01-01 192 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-889330-96-9 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University Debut collection from a lyrical writer of Indian and Irish descent. Fervent. Lyrical. Animistic. Incantatory… Where the Long Grass Bends succumbs to no summary. It is…

  • The Marrow of Tradition: Electronic Edition Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1901 329 pages Electronic Edition University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1997 Text scanned (OCR) by Kathy Graham Text encoded by Teresa Church and Natalia Smith Filesize: ca. 600KB Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) The electronic edition is a…

  • Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about young African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities.

  • “My father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.” When Emma Boudreaux’s older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate—if not always diplomatically—the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound…