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  • Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory

    Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory

    by Houston A. Baker

    Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr. , offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the America... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1984
  • Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

    Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

    by Houston A. Baker

    "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1987
  • Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy (Black Literature and Culture)

    Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy (Black Literature and Culture)

    by Houston A. Baker

    In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and a... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1993
  • Turning South Again: Re-thinking Modernism/Re-reading Booker T.

    Turning South Again: Re-thinking Modernism/Re-reading Booker T.

    by Houston A. Baker

    In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Inst... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2001
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

    by Houston A. Baker

    Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learn... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1982
  • The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2nd Edition)

    The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2nd Edition)

    by William L. Andrews • Henry Louis Gates • Arnold Rampersad • Frances Smith Foster • Houston A. Baker • Hortense Spillers • Nellie Y. Mckay • Deborah E. Mcdowell • Robert G. O'Meally • Cheryl A. Wall • Nellie Mckay

    This anthology presents selections from African American literature beginning with the spirituals and folktales of the oral tradition and continuing through the writings of contemporary authors such as Jamaica Kincaid and Colson Whitehead. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.c... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2003
  • Devaluation Expectations and the Stock Market: The Case of Mexico in 1994/95

    Devaluation Expectations and the Stock Market: The Case of Mexico in 1994/95

    by R. Gaston Gelos • Torbjörn Becker • Anthony J. Richards

    A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2000
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