Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity
Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics
London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave
A new edition of the extraordinary autobiography of a black woman who escaped slavery in the West Indies
An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century