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The blues line : a collection of blues lyrics /
Published 1975
Subjects: “...Blues (Music) -- Texts....”
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Against the blues : poems /
by Aubert, Alvin.
Published 1972
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The blues detective : a study of African American detective fiction /
by Soitos, Stephen F., 1947-
Published 1996
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Blues poems /
Published 2003
Table of Contents: “...STANDARDS (Blues poems before World War II)....”
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Afro-blue : improvisations in African American poetry and culture /
by Bolden, Tony.
Published 2004
Table of Contents: “...Elaborations: a blues theory of African American poetics --...”
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Black women's blues : a literary anthology, 1934-1988 /
Published 1992
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Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature : a vernacular theory /
by Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-
Published 1984
Table of Contents: “... of expressive culture. -- 3.A Dream of American form: fictive discourse, Black (w)holes, and a Blues book most...”
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Seems like murder here southern violence and the blues tradition /
by Gussow, Adam.
Published 2002
Table of Contents: “..."I'm tore down" -- Lynching and the birth of a blues tradition -- "Make my getaway" -- Southern...”
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Hot music, ragmentation, and the bluing of American literature /
by Tracy, Steven C. 1954-
Published 2015
Subjects: “...Blues (Music) in literature....”
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Black female playwrights : an anthology of plays before 1950 /
Published 1989
Table of Contents: “...Blue blood ;...”
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I'm Black when I'm singing, I'm blue when I ain't and other plays /
by Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “... us? (1974) -- I'm Black when I'm singing, I'm blue when I ain't (1982) -- 2 x 2 (2009)....”
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I'm Black when I'm singing, I'm blue when I ain't and other plays /
by Sanchez, Sonia, 1934-
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “...I'm Black when I'm singing, I'm blue when I ain't...”
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Going to meet the man /
by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Published 1965
Table of Contents: “...Sonny's blues --...”
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Black short story anthology /
Published 1972
Table of Contents: “...Sonny's not blue /...”
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Black metafiction : self-consciousness in African American literature /
by Jablon, Madelyn, 1956-
Published 1997
Table of Contents: “...The Künstlerroman and the blues hero:...”
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Shadow and act.
by Ellison, Ralph.
Published 1964
Table of Contents: “...Richard Wright's blues --...”
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Women of the Harlem renaissance /
by Wall, Cheryl A.
Published 1995
Table of Contents: “...Zora Neale Hurston's traveling blues. --...”
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Cultural sites of critical insight : philosophy, aesthetics, and African American and Native American women's writings /
Published 2007
Table of Contents: “..."Any woman's blues" : Sherley Anne WIlliams and the blues aesthetic /...”
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Black out loud : an anthology of modern poems by Black Americans /
Published 1970
Table of Contents: “...Blues /...”
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The best short stories by Negro writers : an anthology from 1899 to the present /
Published 1967
Table of Contents: “...The blues begins /...”
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Breaking ice : an anthology of contemporary African-American fiction /
Published 1990
Table of Contents: “...De Mojo blues /...”
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Shaker, why don't you sing? /
by Angelou, Maya
Published 1983
Table of Contents: “...My life has turned to blue....”
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The Negro caravan : writings by American Negroes /
Published 1941
Table of Contents: “...The Flyer / Cecil Blue --...”
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The Norton anthology of African American literature /
Published 1996
Table of Contents: “...Yellow dog blues ;...”
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In the African-American grain : the pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction /
by Callahan, John F., 1940-
Published 1988
Table of Contents: “...A moveable form: the loose end blues of The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman --...”
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Memory of kin : stories about family by black writers /
Published 1991
Table of Contents: “...Sonny's blues /...”
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Double-take : a revisionist Harlem Renaissance anthology /
Published 2001
Table of Contents: “...The weary blues ;...”
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Spirit & flame : an anthology of contemporary African American poetry /
Published 1997
Table of Contents: “...Tougaloo blues /...”
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Children of the night : the best short stories by Black writers, 1967 to the present /
Published 1995
Table of Contents: “...Blues for Little Prez /...”
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Anthology of American Negro literature /
Published 1944
Table of Contents: “...St. Louis Blues and Solvent Bank /...”
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Shaping memories reflections of African American women writers /
Published 2009
Table of Contents: “...Parting the blue miasma /...”
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Afro-American literature : the reconstruction of instruction /
Published 1979
Table of Contents: “...The blues roots of contemporary Afro-American poetry /...”
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance reader /
Published 1995
Table of Contents: “...weary blues ;...”
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Ebony rising : short fiction of the greater Harlem Renaissance era /
Published 2004
Table of Contents: “...Blue aloes ;...”
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Temples for tomorrow : looking back at the Harlem Renaissance /
Published 2001
Table of Contents: “...Langston Hughes's blues /...”
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Copper sun /
by Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
Published 1927
Table of Contents: “...Colored blues singer --...”
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Conjuring : Black women, fiction, and literary tradition /
Published 1985
Table of Contents: “...Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence in The bluest eye /...”
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Harlem's glory : Black women writing, 1900-1950 /
Published 1996
Table of Contents: “...Little Cornish, the "blue boy" /...”
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The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 /
Published 1970
Table of Contents: “...The Blue Meridian /...”
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Wild women in the whirlwind : Afra-American culture and the contemporary literary renaissance /
Published 1990
Table of Contents: “..."Up the country ..." and still singing the blues : Sippie Wallace /...”
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Black imagination and the Middle Passage /
Published 1999
Table of Contents: “..."The Middle Passage blues" /...”
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From the ashes : voices of Watts /
Published 1967
Table of Contents: “...A deep blue feeling /...”
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Jump bad : a new Chicago anthology.
Published 1971
Table of Contents: “...Leg-acy of a blue Capricorn ;...”
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The new Negro : readings on race, representation, and African American culture, 1892-1938 /
Published 2007
Table of Contents: “...Same old blues /...”
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The dream keeper and other poems /
by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Published 1994
Table of Contents: “... -- Parisian beggar woman -- Mexican market woman -- Sea calm -- Dressed up: Note on blues -- Dressed up...”
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Liberating voices : oral tradition in African American literature /
by Jones, Gayl.
Published 1991
Table of Contents: “...From dialect to blues and spirituals : Paul L. Dunbar and Langston Hughes -- Folk speech...”
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The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage /
by Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-
Published 2011
Table of Contents: “...'s Tambourines to Glory -- 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister...”
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The African American theatrical body reception, performance, and the stage /
by Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-
Published 2011
Table of Contents: “... and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory; 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James...”
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Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition /
by Wall, Cheryl A.
Published 2005
Table of Contents: “... in mind : blues and history in Corregidora -- Writing beyond the blues : The color purple -- Extending...”
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The coupling convention : sex, text, and tradition in Black women's fiction /
by DuCille, Ann.
Published 1993
Table of Contents: “..., and marriage in the ideal estate -- Blues notes on Black sexuality: sex and the texts of the Twenties...”
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More to remember ; poems of four decades.
by Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000.
Published 1971
Table of Contents: “... -- Nocturne -- Incredible Harvests -- Our Name for You -- Separation -- Rx -- The Line-Up -- Jailhouse Blues...”
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Contemporary Black drama; from "A raisin in the sun" to "No place to be somebody."
by Oliver, Clinton F.
Published 1971
Table of Contents: “.... Kennedy.--Dutchman, by LeR. Jones.--Blues for Mister Charlie, by J. Baldwin.--Happy ending, and Day...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community.
Published 2014
Table of Contents: “... Texas blues guitarist -- Shemekia Copeland : Powerhouse blues vocalist -- Curley Culp : Hall of Fame...”
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Wines in the wilderness : plays by African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to the present /
Published 1990
Table of Contents: “...The pot maker / Marita Bonner -- Blue blood. Safe. Blue-eyed Black boy / Georgia Douglas Johnson...”
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The best short stories by Black writers : the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967 /
Published 1967
Table of Contents: “... soon / James Baldwin -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- The blues begins / Sylvester Leaks...”
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James Baldwin : a biography /
by Leeming, David Adams, 1937-
Published 1994
Table of Contents: “... -- The call of the stage -- Sermons and blues -- In search of a role -- Nobody knows my name -- Another...”
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Afro-American literature in the twentieth century : the achievement of intimacy /
by Cooke, Michael G.
Published 1984
Table of Contents: “...Introduction : Building on "signifying" and the blues -- Self-veiling : James Weldon Johnson...”
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The new Negro renaissance : an anthology /
Published 1975
Table of Contents: “... ; The Weary Blues / Langston Hughes ; Young Prostitute / Langston Hughes ; Harlem Shadows / Claude McKay...”
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Bulldaggers, pansies, and chocolate babies : performance, race, and sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance /
by Wilson, James F.
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “... and Ethel Waters -- "In my well of loneliness": Gladys Bentley's Bulldykin' blues -- Conclusion: "you've...”
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Exodus politics : civil rights and leadership in African American literature and culture /
by Patterson, Robert J., 1980-
Published 2013
Table of Contents: “... -- The important thing is making generations: reconsidering reproduction and blues performances as forms of civil...”
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On our way : poems of pride and love /
Published 1974
Table of Contents: “... are. Jackson, M.S. Old Lang Hughes. Harper, M.S. Martin's blues.--Feelings: Kyei, K.G. African in Louisiana...”
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The best short stories by Black writers : the classic anthology from 1899 to 1967 /
Published 1967
Table of Contents: “... soon / James Baldwin -- See how they run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- The blues begins / Sylvester Leaks...”
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Golden slippers : an anthology of Negro poetry for young readers /
Published 1941
Table of Contents: “...Waking up -- Playtime -- Clothes lines water pails -- Hard work -- Chariot wheels -- Feeling blue...”
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Animating black and brown liberation : a theory of American literatures /
by Datcher, Michael, 1967-
Published 2019
Table of Contents: “...'s Poetry for the People -- Chapter 4. Wanda Coleman and Kamau Daáood Sing the Blues for the Black Body...”
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The plays to 1942 Mulatto to the sun do move /
by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Published 2002
Table of Contents: “... want to be free? A poetry play from slavery through the blues to now - and then some! With singing...”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives /
by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-
Published 2013
Table of Contents: “...-echo blues -- Conclusion....”
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From within the frame storytelling in African-American fiction /
by Ashe, Bertram D., 1959-
Published 2002
Table of Contents: “... of the storytelling aesthetic in Their eyes were watching God -- Listening to the blues : Ralph Ellison's Trueblood...”
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James Baldwin : artist on fire : a portrait /
by Weatherby, William J.
Published 1989
Table of Contents: “...Blues for mister Baldwin -- "Frog Eyes" -- Baptism of fire -- Exile from Paris -- Getting Mountain...”
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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature /
by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-
Published 2013
Table of Contents: “...Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues...”
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Brothers and sisters : modern stories by Black Americans.
Published 1970
Table of Contents: “...Sonny's blues, by J. Baldwin.--Maud Martha and New York, by G. Brooks.--The boy who painted Christ...”
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The Norton anthology of African American literature /
Published 2004
Table of Contents: “.... Spirituals ; Gospel ; Secular rhymes and songs, ballads, work songs and songs of social change ; The blues...”
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Anger, and beyond : the Negro writer in the United States.
Published 1966
Table of Contents: “... society / Harvey Swados -- The other side of the blues / Nat Hentoff -- Ralph Ellison and the uses...”
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The Afro-American novel since 1960 /
Published 1982
Table of Contents: “... : Ernest Gaines' The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) / Albert Wertheim -- The novel as blues...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community.
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “..., perennially popular "doo-hop" vocal group -- Big Bill Broonzy, Delta blues legend -- Gordon Bush, former mayor...”
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Timber and prayer : the Indian Pond poems /
by Weaver, Afaa M. 1951-
Published 1995
Table of Contents: “...Christmas, 1941 -- The Blue Ford, 1958 -- Otis's Leather Jacket -- Elsie's Pearl Necklace...”
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The heritage series of Black poetry, 1962-1975 : a research compendium /
Published 2008
Table of Contents: “... / Waring Cuney -- About Maurice; To Maurice; A Dun; Pedagogy; Blues, Blues; Married Woman; Compensation...”
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The grey album : on the blackness of blackness /
by Young, Kevin, 1970-
Published 2012
Table of Contents: “... : the blues mask of modernism -- "If you can't read, run anyhow!" : Langston Hughes and the poetics of refusal...”
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A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama /
by Stepto, Robert B.
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “..., and the search for race : school house blues -- Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, and difference -- A greyhound kind...”
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A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama /
by Stepto, Robert B.
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “..., and the search for race : school house blues -- Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, and difference -- A greyhound kind...”
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James Baldwin : the price of the ticket.
Published 2014
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community.
Published 2017
Table of Contents: “... -- Ruth B -- Afeni Shakur -- Will Smith -- Valaida Snow -- Songhoy Blues -- Jabo Starks -- Michael Strahan...”
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Writing between the lines : race and intertextuality /
by Nielsen, Aldon Lynn.
Published 1994
Table of Contents: “.... Whose Blues? -- 8. Amiri Baraka: LeRoi Jones as Intertext -- 9. Of Slave Girls and Women: Two Epilogues....”
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The sermon and the African American literary imagination /
by Hubbard, Dolan, 1949-
Published 1994
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Black American literature ; a critical history /
by Whitlow, Roger.
Published 1973
Table of Contents: “... of Exaggeration, Blues and Spirituals, Work Songs, Legendary-Men Tales, Slave Stories, Animal Tales, Minstrel...”
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The cross of redemption : uncollected writings /
by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Published 2010
Table of Contents: “... for integrity ; We can change the country ; Why I stopped hating Shakespeare ; The uses of the blues ; What...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community /
Published 2017
Table of Contents: “...Tunde Adebimpe -- Vernel Bagneris -- Mookie Betts -- Selwyn Birchwood -- Blue Magic -- Mike Carey...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community.
Published 2015
Table of Contents: “... -- Barbara Lynn -- Bob Mann -- Pedro Martinez -- The Marvelettes -- Migos -- Blue Mitchell -- Babatunde...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community.
Published 2017
Table of Contents: “.... Narcisse -- Fayard and Harold Nicholas -- Alfred Nzo -- Oklahoma City Blue Devils -- Harry Pace -- Margaret...”
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Collected essays /
by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Published 1998
Table of Contents: “... -- Sermons and Blues -- On Catfish Row -- They Can't Turn Back -- The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community.
Published 2015
Table of Contents: “... -- Atlantic Starr -- William A. Bell Sr. -- Delois N. Blakely -- Kurtis Blow -- Vida Blue -- Glenn Burke...”
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Silence to the drums : a survey of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance /
by Perry, Margaret, 1933-
Published 1976
Table of Contents: “... Schuyler.. Arna Bentemps -- The short story: Rudolph Fisher ... John Matheus ... Cecil Blue ... Zora Neale...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community /
Published 2012
Table of Contents: “... known for friendship with Oprah Winfrey -- Eddie Kirkland, energetic blues guitarist -- Donald Lawrence...”
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Black poets of the United States ; from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes /
by Wagner, Jean, 1919-
Published 1973
Table of Contents: “... to the origins ; Beyond rage: "blue meridian" -- Countee Cullen : Cullen's life : A mysterious childhood...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community /
Published 2013
Table of Contents: “... : leader of 21-year rebellion against Sudanese government -- Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes : influential...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community /
Published 2012
Table of Contents: “... group that created a new sound blending gospel and blues -- Chris Paul, league-leading point guard...”
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Contemporary Black biography. profiles from the international Black community /
Published 2013
Table of Contents: “... of inciting 1921 race riot in Oklahoma -- Hubert Sumlin : blues guitarist and accompanist to Howlin' Wolf...”
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African American literary theory : a reader /
Published 2000
Table of Contents: “... of womanist theory / S.A. Williams -- Belief, theory and Blues / H.A. Baker, Jr. -- Woman's era: rethinking...”
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"Tell it to us easy" and other stories : a complete short fiction anthology of African American women writers in Opportunity magazine, (1923-1948) /
Published 2008
Table of Contents: “.... Barnes -- Big Joe: A short short story / Stella Kamp -- Tell it to us easy / Eleanor Simms -- One blue...”
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Beastgirl & other origin myths /
by Acevedo, Elizabeth
Published 2016
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