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- "After Mecca" : women poets and the Black Arts Movement
- "De Lawd" : Richard B. Harrison and The green pastures
- "Doers of the word" : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)
- "High-topped shoes" and other signifiers of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in selected fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
- "Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995)
- "The changing same" : black women's literature, criticism, and theory
- "Who set you flowin'?" : the African-American migration narrative
- 'Re/visioning' the self away from home : autobiographical and cross-cultural dimensions in the works of Paule Marshall
- (Dis)forming the American canon : African-Arabic slave narratives and the vernacular
- A DuBose Heyward reader
- A Melvin Dixon critical reader
- A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927
- A cena em sombras
- A companion to African American literature
- A freedom bought with blood : African American war literature from the Civil War to World War II
- A historical guide to James Baldwin
- A historical guide to Ralph Ellison
- A history of Afro-American literature
- A history of the African American novel
- A history of the Harlem Renaissance
- A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama
- A human necklace : the African diaspora and Paule Marshall's fiction
- A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912
- A son's return : selected essays of Sterling A. Brown
- A sourcebook of African-American performance : plays, people, movements
- A spirit of dialogue : incarnations of Ọgbañje, the born-to-die, in African American literature
- A spy in the enemy's country : the emergence of modern Black literature
- A world of difference : an inter-cultural study of Toni Morrison's novels
- African American atheists and political liberation : a study of the sociocultural dynamics of faith
- African American autobiography and the quest for freedom
- African American literary criticism, 1773 to 2000
- African American literature of the twenty-first century and the Black Arts : the case of John Edgar Wideman
- African American mystery writers : a historical and thematic study
- African American nationalist literature of the 1960s : pens of fire
- African American satire : the sacredly profane novel
- African American servitude and historical imaginings : retrospective fiction and representation
- African American theatre : an historical and critical analysis
- African American women writers' historical fiction
- African and African American images in Newbery Award winning titles : progress in portrayals
- African heartbeat : transatlantic literary and cultural dynamics
- African spiritual traditions in the novels of Toni Morrison
- African-American literature : overview and bibliography
- African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader
- African-American poets : Phillis Wheatley through Melvin B. Tolson
- African-American voices in young adult literature : tradition, transition, transformation
- Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels
- Afro-American literary study in the 1990s
- Afro-American literature in the twentieth century : the achievement of intimacy
- Afro-American poetics : revisions of Harlem and the Black aesthetic
- Afro-blue : improvisations in African American poetry and culture
- Afro-realisms and the romances of race : rethinking Blackness in the African American novel
- After the pain : critical essays on Gayl Jones
- Against a sharp white background : infrastructures of African American print
- Alice Childress
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston : the common bond
- All stories are true : history, myth, and trauma in the work of John Edgar Wideman
- Amalgamation! : race, sex, and rhetoric in the nineteenth-century American novel
- America and the black body : identity politics in print and visual culture
- American Lazarus : religion and the rise of African-American and Native American literatures
- American body politics : race, gender, and Black literary renaissance
- American racist : the life and films of Thomas Dixon
- American slavery and the American novel, 1852-1977
- American trickster : trauma, tradition and Brer Rabbit
- Amiri Baraka : the politics and art of a Black intellectual
- An American crusade : the life of Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- An in-depth study of the major plays of African American playwright August Wilson : vernacularizing the blues on stage
- Analysis and assessment, 1940-1979
- Ann Petry
- Another man gone : the Black runner in contemporary Afro-American literature
- Apocalyptic sentimentalism : love and fear in U.S. antebellum literature
- Approaches to teaching the plays of August Wilson
- Archetypes, imprecators, and victims of fate : origins and developments of satire in Black drama
- Archives of flesh : African America, Spain, and post-humanist critique
- Around the corner
- At home in diaspora : Black international writing
- August Wilson
- August Wilson : a casebook
- August Wilson : a literary companion
- August Wilson : a research and production sourcebook
- August Wilson and Black aesthetics
- August Wilson and the African-American odyssey
- August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone
- Authentic Blackness : the folk in the new negro renaissance
- Authentic Blackness/"real" Blackness : essays on the meaning of Blackness in literature and culture
- Autobiography in black and brown : ethnic identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez
- Backgrounds to Blackamerican literature
- Balancing the books : Faulkner, Morrison, and the economies of slavery
- Bearing witness to African American literature : validating and valorizing its authority, authenticity, and agency
- Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer"
- Beginning ethnic American literatures
- Being & race : Black writing since 1970
- Beyond the Chinese connection : contemporary Afro-Asian cultural production
- Black American literature : a critical history with a 1,520-title bibliography of works written by and about Black Americans
- Black American literature : notes on the problem of definition
- Black American poets between worlds, 1940-1960
- Black American women fiction writers
- Black American women poets and dramatists
- Black American writing from the nadir : the evolution of a literary tradition, 1877-1915
- Black Atlantic speculative fictions : Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson
- Black Dionysus : Greek tragedy and African American theatre
- Black Frankenstein : the making of an American metaphor
- Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
- Black aesthetics and the interior life
- Black and white strangers : race and American literary realism
- Black bourgeois : class and sex in the flesh
- Black chant : languages of African-American postmodernism
- Black children's literature got de blues : the creativity of Black writers and illustrators
- Black comedy : nine plays : a critical anthology with interviews and essays
- Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance
- Black drama : the story of the American Negro in the theatre
- Black drama of the Federal theatre era : beyond the formal horizons
- Black expression : essays by and about black Americans in the creative arts
- Black family (dys)function in novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, & Fannie Hurst
- Black feminism in contemporary drama
- Black feminist criticism : perspectives on Black women writers
- Black fiction : new studies in the Afro-American novel since 1945
- Black folklore and the politics of racial representation
- Black girlhood in the nineteenth century
- Black heart : the moral life of recent African American letters
- Black imagination and the middle passage
- Black literate lives : historical and contemporary perspectives
- Black literature and literary theory
- Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years
- Black love, Black hate : intimate antagonisms in African American literature
- Black men worshipping : intersecting anxieties of race, gender, and Christian embodiment
- Black metafiction : self-consciousness in African American literature
- Black mothers to sons : juxtaposing African American literature with social practice
- Black novelist as white racist : the myth of Black inferiority in the novels of Oscar Micheaux
- Black on earth : African American ecoliterary traditions
- Black on white : a critical survey of writing by American Negroes
- Black poets of the United States : from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes
- Black professional women in recent American fiction
- Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
- Black theatre in the 1960s and 1970s : a historical-critical analysis of the movement
- Black women playwrights : visions on the American stage
- Black women poets of Harlem Renaissance
- Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative : femininity unfettered
- Black women writers at work
- Black women's activism : reading African American women's historical romances
- Black women, writing, and identity : migrations of the subject
- Black writers interpret the Harlem Renaissance
- Black writers of the thirties
- Black writers, white publishers : marketplace politics in twentieth-century African American literature
- Black, white, and Huckleberry Finn : re-imagining the American dream
- Black, white, and in color : essays on American literature and culture
- Blackness and modernism : the literary career of John Edgar Wideman
- Blackness and the adventure of Western culture
- Blackness and value : seeing double
- Blacks and Jews in literary conversation
- Blacks in Eden : the African-American novel's first century
- Blinded by the whites : why race still matters in 21st-century America
- Blood talk : American race melodrama and the culture of the occult
- Blue notes : essays, interviews, and commentaries
- Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature : a vernacular theory
- Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture
- Breaking broken English : Black-Arab literary solidarities and the politics of language
- Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the "Cornfield Journalist" : the tale of Joel Chandler Harris
- Bridging the Americas : the literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
- British travellers' versions of American Negro slavery
- Broken silences : interviews with Black and White women writers
- Brown gold : milestones of African-American children's picture books, 1845-2002
- Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
- Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
- Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature
- Buying whiteness : race, culture, and identity from Columbus to Hip Hop
- Cambridge companion to the African American novel
- Cambridge companion to the African American novel
- Canaan bound : the African-American great migration novel
- Cane : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
- Cane : authoritative text, contexts, criticism
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a critical assessment
- Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance : a portrait in black and white
- Cavalcade : Negro American writing from 1760 to the present
- Changing the subject : writing women across the African diaspora
- Chaotic justice : rethinking African American literary history
- Charles Chesnutt reappraised : essays on the first major African American fiction writer
- Charles Johnson : the novelist as philosopher
- Charles Johnson in context
- Charles Johnson's fiction
- Charles Johnson's novels : writing the American palimpsest
- Charles Johnson's spiritual imagination
- Charles W. Chesnutt : a study of the short fiction
- Charles W. Chesnutt : essays and speeches
- Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race
- Chesnutt and realism : a study of the novels
- Chester Himes
- Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance
- Circles of sorrow, lines of struggle : the novels of Toni Morrison
- Claiming Exodus : a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903
- Claiming the heritage : African-American women novelists and history
- Clarity as concept : a poet's perspective : a collection of essays
- Claude McKay : a black poet's struggle for identity
- Claude McKay : the literary identity from Jamaica to Harlem and beyond
- Close kin and distant relatives : the paradox of respectability in Black women's literature
- Codes of conduct : race, ethics, and the color of our character
- Color & culture : Black writers and the making of the modern intellectual
- Color, sex & poetry : three women writers of the Harlem Renaissance
- Commitment as a theme in African American literature : a study of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison
- Confluences : postcolonialism, African American literary studies, and the Black Atlantic
- Conjuring the folk : forms of modernity in African America
- Conscientious sorcerers : the Black postmodernist fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany
- Contemporary African American fiction : new critical essays
- Contemporary African American fiction : the open journey
- Contemporary African American literature : the living canon
- Contemporary African American theater : Afrocentricity in the works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller
- Contemporary Black men's fiction and drama
- Contemporary Negro arts
- Contending forces : a romance illustrative of Negro life North and South
- Conversations with August Wilson
- Conversations with Chester Himes
- Conversations with Clarence Major
- Conversations with Ernest Gaines
- Conversations with Gloria Naylor
- Conversations with Margaret Walker
- Conversations with Nikki Giovanni
- Conversations with Sonia Sanchez
- Conversations with Walter Mosley
- Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
- Countee Cullen
- Critical essays on Charles W. Chesnutt
- Critical essays on James Baldwin
- Critical essays on James Weldon Johnson
- Critical essays on John Edgar Wideman
- Critical essays on Richard Wright
- Critical essays on Toni Morrison
- Critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston
- Critical reflections on the fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
- Criticism and the color line : desegregating American literary studies
- Crossing borders through folklore : African American women's fiction and art
- Crossing color : transcultural space and place in Rita Dove's poetry, fiction, and drama
- Crossing the line : racial passing in twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture
- Dancing on the color line : African American tricksters in nineteenth-century American literature
- Dangerous desire : sexual freedom and sexual violence since the sixties
- Dangerous freedom : fusion and fragmentation in Toni Morrison's novels
- Dark ancestor : the literature of the Black man in the Caribbean
- Deans and truants : race and realism in African American literature
- Decolonizing the text : Glissantian readings in Caribbean and African-American literatures
- Deep sightings and rescue missions : fiction, essays, and conversations
- Deep talk : reading African-American literary names
- Democratic discourses : the radical abolition movement and antebellum American literature
- Demonic vision : racial fantasy and southern fiction
- Designs of Blackness : mappings in the literature and culture of Afro-America
- Discarded legacy : politics and poetics in the life of Frances E.W. Harper, 1825-1911
- Discourse and the other : the production of the Afro-American text
- Dislocating the color line : identity, hybridity, and singularity in African-American narrative
- Dividing lines : class anxiety and postbellum Black fiction
- Double-consciousness/double bind : theoretical issues in twentieth-century Black literature
- Down from the mountaintop : Black women's novels in the wake of the civil rights movement, 1966-1989
- Down home and uptown : the representation of Black speech in American fiction
- Dramatic encounters : the Jewish presence in twentieth-century American drama, poetry, and humor and the Black-Jewish literary relationship
- Dreams for dead bodies : blackness, labor, and the corpus of American detective fiction
- Drumvoices : the mission of Afro-American poetry : a critical history
- DuBose Heyward
- Dynamite voices
- Eating the Black body : miscegenation as sexual consumption in African American literature and culture
- Ed Bullins : a literary biography
- Einführung in die schwarzamerikanische Literatur
- Embracing, evaluating, and examining African American children's and young adult literature
- Enter the new Negroes : images of race in American culture
- Ernest J. Gaines : a critical companion
- Ethnic modernisms : Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the aesthetics of dislocation
- Every tub must sit on its own bottom : the philosophy and politics of Zora Neale Hurston
- Everybody's America : Thomas Pynchon, race, and the cultures of postmodernism
- Experimenters, rebels, and disparate voices : the theatre of the 1920s celebrates American diversity
- Extraordinary measures : Afrocentric modernism and twentieth-century American poetry
- Facing Black and Jew : literature as public space in twentieth-century America
- Faithful vision : treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction
- Faulkner : the house divided
- Faulkner : the return of the repressed
- Faulkner : three studies
- Faulkner and Black-White relations : a psychoanalytic approach
- Faulkner on the color line : the later novels
- Fettered genius : the African American bardic poet from slavery to civil rights
- Fiction and folklore : the novels of Toni Morrison
- Fictions of labor : William Faulkner and the South's long revolution
- Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature
- Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker
- Figures in Black : words, signs, and the "racial" self
- Finding a way home : a critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction
- Fingering the jagged grain : tradition and form in recent Black fiction
- Five Black writers ; : essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Le Roi Jones
- Flashback through the heart : the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa
- Folklore in New World Black fiction : writing and the oral traditional aesthetics
- Forgotten readers : recovering the lost history of African-American literary societies
- Freud upside down : African American literature and psychoanalytic culture
- From DuBois to Van Vechten : the early new Negro literature, 1903-1926
- From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative
- From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help : Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life
- From apology to protest : the Black American novel
- From behind the veil : a study of Afro-American narrative
- From behind the veil : a study of Afro-American narrative
- From folklore to fiction : a study of folk heroes and rituals in the Black American novel
- From mammies to militants : domestics in Black American literature
- From slave cabins to the White House : homemade citizenship in African American culture
- From the dark tower ; : Afro-American writers (1900 to 1960)
- From the plantation to the prison : African-American confinement literature
- Fugitive vision : slave image and Black identity in antebellum narrative
- Gettin' our groove on : rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip hop generation
- Gloria Naylor : strategy and technique, magic and myth
- Gloria Naylor's early novels
- Gothic America : narrative, history, and nation
- Granny midwives and Black women writers : double-dutched readings
- Growing up ethnic : nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American fiction
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poetry & the heroic voice
- Hansberry's drama : commitment amid complexity
- Haunted property : slavery and the gothic
- Haunting and displacement in African American literature and culture
- Heart of a woman, mind of a writer, and soul of a poet : a critical analysis of the writings of Maya Angelou
- Heroism and the black intellectual : Ralph Ellison, politics, and Afro-American intellectual life
- Heroism in the new Black poetry : introductions & interviews
- Hip figures : a literary history of the Democratic Party
- Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick : race and gender in the work of Zora Neale Hurston
- Homenaje a Langston Hughes : ensayos sobre la negritud
- How to read African American literature : post-Civil Rights fiction and the task of interpretation
- Howling for justice : new perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
- Huckleberry Finn as idol and target : the functions of criticism in our time
- Hunger overcome? : food and resistance in twentieth-century African American literature
- I ain't sorry for nothin' I done : August Wilson's process of playwriting
- I call myself an artist : writings by and about Charles Johnson
- I know what the red clay looks like : the voice and vision of Black women writers
- Identifying fictions of Toni Morrison : modernist authenticity and postmodern blackness
- Identity, family, and folklore in African American literature
- Image of the Black in children's fiction
- Images of Black men in Black women writers, 1950-1990
- Images of Black modernism : verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
- Images of the Negro in American literature
- Images of the preacher in Afro-American literature
- Imagining blackness in Germany and Austria
- Imagining each other : Blacks and Jews in contemporary American literature
- Imagining the African American West
- In search of a model for African-American drama : a study of selected plays by Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange
- In the African-American grain : the pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction
- In the light of likeness--transformed : the literary art of Leon Forrest
- In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature
- In the shadow of the Black beast : African American masculinity in the Harlem and Southern renaissances
- In the shadow of the gallows : race, crime, and American civic identity
- Iniciación a la poesÃa afro-americana
- Integral music : languages of African American innovation
- Interracial encounters : reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937
- Intersecting boundaries : the theatre of Adrienne Kennedy
- Inventing black women : African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000
- Inventing the new Negro : narrative, culture, and ethnography
- Invisible ball of dreams : literary representations of baseball behind the color line
- Invisible darkness : Jean Toomer & Nella Larsen
- Invisible poets : Afro-Americans of the nineteenth century
- Invisible poets : Afro-Americans of the nineteenth century
- Ishmael Reed and the ends of race
- JD
- Jacqueline Woodson : "the real thing"
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin : America and beyond
- James Baldwin : challenging authors
- James Baldwin ; : a critical study
- James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays
- James Baldwin now
- James Baldwin, a critical evaluation
- James Weldon Johnson
- Jazz poetry : from the 1920s to the present
- Jean Toomer : selected essays and literary criticism
- Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance
- Jean Toomer and the terrors of American history
- John A. Williams
- John Edgar Wideman : a study of the short fiction
- John Edgar Wideman : reclaiming the African personality
- Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture
- Jump at the sun : Zora Neale Hurston's cosmic comedy
- Just us girls : the contemporary African American young adult novel
- Keepin' it hushed : the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric
- Keys to controversies : stereotypes in modern American novels
- Kinds of blue : the jazz aesthetic in African American narrative
- Labor pains : New Deal fictions of race, work, and sex in the South
- Langston Hughes : a study of the short fiction
- Langston Hughes : antologia mayor
- Langston Hughes : critical perspectives past and present
- Langston Hughes : folk dramatist in the protest tradition, 1921-1943
- Langston Hughes : the contemporary reviews
- Langston Hughes : the poet and his critics
- Langston Hughes and American lynching culture
- Langston Hughes in the Hispanic world and Haiti
- Language and literature in the African American imagination
- Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery
- Left of the color line : race, radicalism, and twentieth-century literature of the United States
- Leon Forrest : introductions and interpretations
- Lester Walton : Black theatre critic
- Let's flip the script : an African American discourse on language, literature, and learning
- Letter to Jimmy : on the twentieth anniversary of your death
- Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature
- Liberation memories : the rhetoric and poetics of John Oliver Killens
- Lillian Hellman and August Wilson : dramatizing a new American identity
- Literary ambition and the African American novel
- Literary influence and African-American writers : collected essays
- Living Jim Crow : the segregated town in mid-century Southern fiction
- Living with lynching : African American lynching plays, performance, and citizenship, 1890-1930
- Long black song ; : essays in Black American literature and culture
- Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature
- Loose canons : notes on the culture wars
- Low road : the life and legacy of Donald Goines
- Mammies no more : the changing image of Black women on stage and screen
- Margaret Walker's "For my people" : a tribute
- Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity
- Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the politics of representative identity
- Masks : blackness, race, and the imagination
- Master plots : race and the founding of an American literature, 1787-1845
- Masterplots II, African American literature series
- Masters of the drum : Black lit/oratures across the continuum
- May all your fences have gates : essays on the drama of August Wilson
- Measuring the Harlem Renaissance : the U.S. Census, African American identity, and literary form
- Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem gallery : a literary analysis
- Modern Black poets ; : a collection of critical essays
- Modernism and the Harlem renaissance
- Montage of a dream : the art and life of Langston Hughes
- Mr. Baldwin, I presume : James Baldwin--Chinua Achebe, a meeting of the minds
- Mulattoes and race mixture : American attitudes and images, 1865-1918
- Multiculturalism : roots and realities
- Mythic Black fiction : the transformation of history
- Narrative conventions and race in the novels of Toni Morrison
- Nat Turner before the bar of judgment : fictional treatments of the Southampton slave insurrection
- Nationalism and the color line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
- Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars : a new Pandora's box
- Native sons ; : a critical study of twentieth-century Negro American authors
- Negotiating difference : race, gender, and the politics of positionality
- Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959
- Negro poetry in America
- Negro voices in American fiction
- Nella Larsen, novelist of the Harlem Renaissance : a woman's life unveiled
- Neo-segregation narratives : Jim Crow in post-civil rights American literature
- Neo-slave narratives : studies in the social logic of a literary form
- New Negro, old Left : African-American writing and Communism between the wars
- New essays on Song of Solomon
- New essays on Uncle Tom's cabin
- New voices on the Harlem Renaissance : essays on race, gender, and literary discourse
- Nikki Giovanni
- No crystal stair : visions of race and gender in Black women's fiction
- Not just race, not just gender : Black feminist readings
- Not so simple : the "Simple" stories by Langston Hughes
- Novel bondage : slavery, marriage, and freedom in nineteenth-century America
- Ntozake Shange : a critical study of the plays
- O Negro na literatura brasileira
- Of dreams deferred, dead or alive : African perspectives on African-American writers
- On Gwendolyn Brooks : reliant contemplation
- One more river to cross : the therapeutic rhetoric of race in the post-civil rights era
- Out of the woodpile : black characters in crime and detective fiction
- Outsider citizens : the remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin
- Pan-African American literature : signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century
- Passing and the fictions of identity
- Passing and the rise of the African American novel
- Passing novels in the Harlem Renaissance : identity politics and textual strategies
- Passing the three gates : interviews with Charles Johnson
- Pauline E. Hopkins : a literary biography
- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins : Black daughter of the Revolution
- Peculiar passages : black women playwrights, 1875 to 2000
- Performing blackness : enactments of African-American modernism
- Performing the word : African American poetry as vernacular culture
- Pimping fictions : African American crime literature and the untold story of Black pulp publishing
- Places of silence, journeys of freedom : the fiction of Paule Marshall
- Playing in the dark : whiteness and the literary imagination
- Playing the changes : from Afro-modernism to the jazz impulse
- Playing with expectations : postmodern narrative choices and the African American novel
- Popular fronts : Chicago and African-American cultural politics, 1935-46
- Post-Soul Satire : Black Identity After Civil Rights
- Praisesong of survival : lectures and essays, 1957-89
- Preaching the blues : black feminist performance in lynching plays
- Prefiguring postblackness : cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s