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Gabbard, Krin, Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (Toru Kiuchi): [40] 183-185
--, ed., Jazz Among the Discourses (Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.): [31] 348-350
--, ed., Representing Jazz (Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.): [31] 348-350

Gabbin, Joanne V., Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition (Leonard Green): [20] 327-334
--, ed., The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry (Lorenzo Thomas): [35] 148-150
--, Judith McCray, and Elizabeth Howarth (producers), and John Hodges, ed., Furious Flower II: The Black Poetic Tradition (Laurie Britt-Smith): [40] 603-605

Gabler-Hover, Janet, Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History (Michael A. Chaney): [35] 311-312

Gadsby, Meredith M., Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival (Daryl Cumber Dance): [41] 580-582

Gaines, Ernest J., A Lesson Before Dying (David E. Vancil): [28] 489-491

Gallego, Mar, Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance: Identity Politics and Textual Strategies (Yupei Zhou): [38] 720-723

Gardner, Jared, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of American Literature (Leonard Cassuto): [35] 135-136

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed., The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (Elizabeth Ammons): [22] 811-827
--, Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self (Robert Elliot Fox): [22] 841-848
--, and K. A. Appiah, eds., Richard Wright: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Yoshinobu Hakutani): [29] 683-687
--, and Hollis Robbins, eds., In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (Lauren Hauptman): [40] 389-391

Gayle, Addison, Richard Wright: Ordeal of a Native Son (Richard Yarborough): [15] 31-33

Gerzina, Gretchen, Black London: Life Before Emancipation (Anthony G. Barthelemy): [31] 508-09

Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar, Shadow and Light: An Autobiography (Willard B. Gatewood): [31] 365-367

Gibson, Donald B., The Politics of Literary Expression: A Study of Major Black Writers (C. Lynn Munro): [16] 80

Giles, Llewellyn Ivory, Songs from My Father's Pockets (Adam David Miller): [17] 179-180

Gilroy, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Peter Erickson): [31] 506-508

Giovanni, Nikki, The Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (Ethel Morgan Smith): [38] 173-174

Glaude, Eddie S., Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America (Kimberly Rae Connor): [35] 657-658
--, ed., Is It Nation Time? (Robert Washington): [36] 693-695

Goggin, Jacqueline, Carter G. Woodson: A Life in Black History (Arvah E. Strickland): [29] 507-509

Golden, Marita, Long Distance Life (Nagueyalti Warren): [24] 803-808
--, ed., Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues (Lynda M. Hill): [29] 691-693

Goldstein, Laurence and Robert Chrisman, eds., Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry (Fritz Oehlsclaeger): [37] 166-167

Gomez-Jefferson, Annetta B., The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1959 (Robert F. Fleissner): [37] 455-456

Gooding-Williams, Robert, ed., W. E. B. Du Bois: Of Cultural and Racial Identity (Jack B. Moore): [31] 145-147

Goodykoontz, William, Prejudice: The Invisible Wall (Vicki Harris): [3] 140

Gordon, Edythe Mae, Selected Works of Edythe Mae Gordon (Lovalerie King): [32] 360-362

Gottschild, Brenda Dixon, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance, Dance and Other Contexts (James V. Hatch): [31] 539-540

Gould, Philip, Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (David Raybin): [38] 718-720

Gould, William B., IV, Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor (Susan L. Blake): [37] 453-454

Graham, Herman, III, The Brothers' Vietnam War: Black Power, Manhood, and the Black Military Experience (Willie J. Harrell, Jr.): [38] 345-348

Graham, Maryemma, Sharon Pineault-Burke, and Marianna White Davis, eds., Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice (Pancho Savery): [34] 525-527
--, and Amritjit Singh, eds., Conversations with Ralph Ellison (Bill Lyne): [31] 531-533

Grasso, Linda M., The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in American (1820-1860) (Nina Baym): [36] 682-683

Gray, Christine Rauchfuss, Willis Richardson, Forgotten Pioneer of African American Drama (N. Graham Nesmith): [35] 331-333

Green, Jaki Shelton, Conjure Blues (E. Ethelbert Miller): [34] 559-560

Greene, J. Lee, Time's Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer's Life and Poetry (Houston A. Baker, Jr.): [12] 74-75
--, Blacks in Eden: The African American Novel's First Century (Bernard W. Bell): [34] 528-531

Grewal, Gurleen, Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison (Cynthia Dobbs): [34] 362-363

Gruesser, John Cullen, White on Black: Contemporary Literature About Africa (Oyekan Owomoyela): [29] 137-140
--, ed., The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Cassandra Jackson): [33] 537-538
--, Black on Black: Twentieth Century African American Writing About Africa (Tony Martin): [36] 147-150

Griffin, Farah Jasmine, "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative (Charles Scruggs): [32] 161-164

Grimshaw, Anna, ed., Special Delivery: The Letters of C. L. R. James to Constance Webb (Nicole R. King): [31] 535-537

Gross, Seymour L., and John Edward Hardy, eds., Images of the Negro in American Literature (Blyden Jackson): [1] 8

Gunning, Sandra, Race, Rape, and Lynching: The Red Record of American Literature, 1890-1912 (Judith L. Stephens): [34] 347-348

Guterl, Matthew Pratt, The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Cynthia Young): [37] 438-440

Guthrie, Patricia, Catching Sense: African American Communities on a South Carolina Sea Island (John Stewart): [32] 343-345

Hahn, Steven, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (Dolen Perkins-Valdez): [39] 611-613

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, ed., Critical Essays on Richard Wright (Eugene E. Miller): [16] 122-123
--, Richard Wright and Racial Discourse (Alessandro Portelli): [33] 539-540

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, and Robert Butler, eds, The City in African-American Literature (Charles Scruggs): [32] 340-342

Hall, James C., ed., Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.): [34] 728-729

Hall, Kim F., Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Dorothy Stephens): [32] 337-340

Hamalian, Leo, and James V. Hatch, eds., The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 (Thomas D. Pawley): [25] 201-204

Harding, Wendy, and Jacky Martin, A World of Difference: An Inter-Cultural Study of Toni Morrison's Novels (Denise Heinze): [30] 483-484

Hardy, Myronn, Approaching the Center (Afaa M. Weaver): [36] 512-513

Harlan, Louis R., et al., The Booker T. Washington Papers, VI (1901-1902) (George A. Levesque): [12] 114-115
--, The Booker T. Washington Papers, VII (1903-1904) (George A. Levesque): [12] 115-116

Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan, Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes (Donald B. Gibson): [31] 529-531

Harper, Michael S., ed., The Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown: The National Poetry Series (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.): [15] 39-42

Harper, Michael S., Honorable Amendments (Calvin Forbes): [32] 508-510
--, Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Selected Poems (Keith D. Leonard): [36] 342-343

Harper, Michael S., and Robert B. Stepto, eds., Chant of Saints: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art, and Scholarship (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.): [14] 126-128

Harper, Phillip Brian, Framing the Margins: The Social Logic of Postmodern Culture (Charles Scruggs): [31] 130-132

Harrington, Ollie W., Why I Left America and Other Essays (Michel Fabre): [30] 305-306

Harris, Duriel E., Drag (Michael A. Antonucci): [39] 602-604

Harris, Joseph E., African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia, 1936-1941 (Charles W. McClellan): [30] 468-469

Harris, Leonard, ed., The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond (Clarence E. Walker): [26] 675-678

Harris, Leslie M., In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (Allan M. Winkler): [39] 613-615

Harris, Peter J., Hand Me My Griot Clothes: The Autobiography of Junior Baby (Shirley Lumpkin): [30] 139-142

Harris, Trudier, From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature (Wilfred D. Samuels): [18] 133-134
--, Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals (Hammet Worthington-Smith): [19] 95
--, Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin (Ketu H. Katrak): [20] 449-458
--, Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison (Barbara J. Wilcots): [26] 691-694

Harrison, Paul Carter, ed., Totem Voices: Plays from the Black World Repertory (Lynda M. Hill): [25] 205-208
--, and Gus Edwards, eds., Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company (James V. Hatch): [31] 356-357
--, Victor Leo Walker II, and Gus Edwards, eds., Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora (Teresa N. Washington): [38] 157-159

Hartman, Charles O., Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song (Barry Wallenstein): [27] 665-671

Hartman, Saidiya V., Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Anita Patterson): [33] 683-686

Hatch, James V., Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One: The Life of Owen Dodson (Barbara Lewis): [29] 687-690
--, and Omanii Abdullah, Black Playwrights, 1823-1977: An Annotated Bibliography of Plays (Joe Weixlmann): [12] 40
--, and Leo Hamalian, eds., Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 (Cary D. Wintz): [33] 361-362
--, and Ted Shine, eds., Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans (Kathryn M. Ervin): [31] 735-737

Hatcher, John, From the Auroral Darkness: The Life and Poetry of Robert Hayden (Marcellus Blount): [19] 169-171

Hathaway, Heather, Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall (Vera M. Kutzinski): [35] 327-328

Hauke, Kathleen A., Ted Poston: Pioneer American Journalist (Gerald B. Jordan): [34] 538-540

Hay, Samuel A., African American Theatre: A Historical and Critical Analysis (Rena Fraden ): [30] 473-476
--, Ed Bullins: A Literary Biography (Nathan Grant): [33] 369-371

Hayes, Terrance, Muscular Music (Tyrone Williams): [34] 558-559
--, Hip Logic (Ed Pavlić): [40] 605-610

Haymes, Stephen Nathan, Race, Culture, and the City: A Pedagogy for Black Urban Struggle (Houston A. Baker, Jr.): [31] 125-128

Heglar, Charles J., Rethinking the Slave Narrative: Slave Marriage and the Narratives of Henry Bibb and Ellen Craft (Frances Smith Foster): [36] 499-501

Helbling, Mark, The Harlem Renaissance: The One and the Many (Charles Scruggs): [35] 317-319

Hemenway, Robert E., Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography (Virginia M. Burke): [12] 73-74

Henderson, Errol Anthony, Afrocentrism and World Politics (Molefi Kete Asante): [31] 505-506

Henderson, Mae, ed., Borders, Boundaries, and Frames (Cheryl A. Wall): [31] 509-511

Hendrickson, Paul, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (Ama Mazama): [37] 662-664

Hernton, Calvin C., The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature and Real Life (Frances Smith Foster): [24] 151-160

Herrington, Joan, "I Ain't Sorry for Nothin' I Done": August Wilson's Process of Playwriting (Marilyn Elkins): [34] 550-551

Hickey, Dennis, and Kenneth C. Wylie, An Enchanting Darkness: The American Vision of Africa in the Twentieth Century (Oyekan Owomoyela): [29] 137-140

Hickey, Georgina, Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 (Molefi Kete Asante): [37] 440-441

Higham, John, ed., Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations since World War II (Allen J. Matusow): [34] 153-154

Hill, Errol, Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors (James V. Hatch): [19] 94
--, ed., Black Heroes: Seven Plays (Joel Berkowitz): [25] 209-211
--, and James V. Hatch, A History of African American Theatre (Henry Miller): [38] 335-337

Hill, Lynda Marion, Social Rituals and the Verbal Art of Zora Neale Hurston (Australia Tarver): [33] 362-365

Hill, Shirley A., Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships (Shawnrece Miller): [41] 180-181

Himes, Chester, My Life of Absurdity: The Later Years (Gwendoline L. Roget): [26] 521-523
--, The Quality of Hurt: The Early Years (Gwendoline L. Roget): [26] 521-523
--, Plan B, ed. Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner (John A. Williams): [30] 492-494

Hinks, Peter, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance (Wilson J. Moses): [33] 524-526

Hogan, William Ranson, and Edwin Adams Davis, eds., William Johnson's Natchez: The Ante-Bellum Diary of a Free Negro (Nick Salvatore): [29] 676-678

Holton, Sylvia Wallace, Down Home and Uptown: The Representation of Black Speech in American Fiction (Walter Edwards): [23] 615-620

hooks, bell, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Sandra Adell): [29] 529-530
--, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood (Evelyn E. Shockley): [31] 552-554

Horton, James O., Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community (Gary B. Nash): [30] 285-286
--, and Lois E. Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 (Peter H. Wood): [33] 523-524
--, and Lois E. Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: The Story of African America (Joe W. Trotter): [37] 429-430

Hogue, W. Lawrence, The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History (Miguel A. Segovia): [38] 737-740

Houston, Helen Ruth, The Afro-American Novel 1965-1975: A Descriptive Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Material (Joe Weixlmann): [12] 39

Hubbard, Dolan, The Sermon and the African American Literary Imagination (Yvonne Chireau): [30] 462-464
--, ed., Recovered Writers/ Recovered Texts: Race, Class, and Gender in Black Women's Literature (Malin Pereira): [33] 536-537

Hughes, Langston, The Return of Simple, ed. Akiba Sullivan Harper (Faith Berry): [30] 499-500
--, Autobiography: I Wonder as I Wander. Vol. 14. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes (Fred L. Standley): [38] 529-530

Hull, Gloria T., ed., Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Felicity Nussbaum): [19] 167-169

Humez, Jean, Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Story (Pero G. Dagbovie): [38] 526-528

Hurmence, Belinda, ed., We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard (Linda Lovell): [31] 142-144

Hutchinson, George, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (Claudia Tate): [31] 517-518
--, In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line (Robert Butler): [41] 578-580

Hyde, Samuel C., Jr., ed., Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000 (Kenneth J. Bindas): [37] 654-656

Hyland, Paul, The Black Heart: A Voyage into Central Africa (John C. Gruesser): [26] 361-363

Illouz, Eva, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture (David Krasner): [38] 539-541

Inge, M. Thomas, ed., Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of Oliver W. Harrington (Michel Fabre): [30] 305-306

Inge, M. Thomas, Maurice Duke, and Jackson R. Bryer, eds., Black American Writers: Bibliographical Essays (R. Baxter Miller): [13] 119-120

Iton, Richard, Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left (William J. Maxwell): [36] 687-689

Iverem, Esther, The Time: Portrait of a Journey Home (Lorenzo Thomas): [29] 700-702

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