This essential one-volume collection brings together some of the most influential and significant works by African-American writers of the nineteenth and twenti

Essential reading for students of African-American history includes autobiographies of former slaves Washington and Douglass, plus Du Bois' landmark essays, whi

"This collection of writings is crucially important, in part, because it reminds us the theoretical paradigms of these and other African American scholars are e

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of