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  • Writing Black Panther

    Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles

    by Professor Howard Rambsy ...
    Series series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
    A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious 50-issue run of the Marvel comic coincided with ongoing and multifaceted debates ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • An OutKast Reader

    Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South

    by Fredara Hadley, Michelle Hite, Langston C. Wilkins, Melissa Brown, Kaila Story, Birgitta J. Johnson, Charlie Braxton, James E. Ford III, Associate Professor Reynaldo Anderson, Susana M. Morris, Stacey Robinson, Ruth Nicole Brown, Jessica L. Robinson, Tiffany E. Barber, Howard Rambsy, Kenton Rambsy, Joycelyn Wilson, Akil Houston, Timothy Anne Burnside, Rashawn Ray, Wendy Marie (SunAh) Laybourn, Clinton R. Fluker Ph.D. ...
    Series Book 4 - Music of the American South
    OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, André “André 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post–civil rights southern identity that ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Bad Men

    Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

    by Howard Rambsy II ...
    How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Convergence

    When Collegiate Black Men Meet African American Literary Studies

    by Howard Rambsy II ...
    Draws on twenty years of firsthand teaching experience, student stories, and campus data to show how culturally grounded reading and discussion can support intellectual growth and improve college success for African American men.The Convergence tells the inside story of a first-semester literature course for Black men at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, taught every fall since 2004. ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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    Writing Black Panther

    Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles

    by Howard Rambsy II ...
    Narrated by Greg Lockett ...
    Series series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    Bloomsbury presents Writing Black Panther by Howard Rambsy II, read by Greg LockettA timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates’s presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Blackshed: The Journey Home

    by Howard Rambsy, Sr. ...
    This is a story based on the factual journey taken by Betts Blackshed to America from Trinidad to find the family that his father left during the War of 1812. Betts father had fought on the side of the British as a Marine during the war. After the death of his father and with the Civil War in America being over Betts began a journey to find his long lost family in America. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • One Black Writer at a Time

    How Literary Coverage Shapes Reception

    by Professor Howard Rambsy, Professor Kenton Rambsy ...
    Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized.Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began raising concerns that white media outlets consistently elevated only one Black writer at a time, thus limiting the broader success of multiple Black ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • Middlemen

    Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction

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  • Was the Cat in the Hat Black?

    The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

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