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Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon
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Contemporary African American Literature: The Living CanonIn this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join writers and younger scholars to explore the work of Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones, Trey Ellis, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, Kyle Baker, Danzy Senna, Nikki Turner, and many others.
 
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African Business Review - September 2016
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African Business Review - September 2016

African Business Review is a leading digital media source of news and content for C-level executives focused on business and industry-specific news throughout the African continent.
 
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African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
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African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices

African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women’s strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Africa today. The anthology brings together personal narratives, testimony, interviews, short stories, poetry, performance scripts, folktales, and lyrics. Thematically organized, it presents women’s writing on such issues as intertribal and interethnic conflicts, the degradation of the environment, polygamy, domestic abuse, the controversial traditional practice of female genital cutting, Sharia law, intergenerational tensions, and emigration and exile.
 
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Encyclopedia of African American Business: v. 1 & 2
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Encyclopedia of African American Business: v. 1 & 2

African Americans historically have played a role in shaping the economic development of their race and of the country, though only recently have they received attention in this regard. Current representation of African Americans in some of corporate America's top positions and as owners of technology companies reflect current trends in society and is a step toward closing the racial gap.
 
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House
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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House

THE INVISIBLES: Slavery Inside The White House and How It Helped Shape America is the first book to tell the story of the executive mansion’s most unexpected residents, the African American slaves who lived with the U.S. presidents who owned them. Interest in African Americans and the White House are at an all-time high due to the historic presidency of Barack Obama, and the soon-to-be-opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History.
 
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