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Jackson, Bruce, The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Charles Blaney): [3] 99

Jacobs, Harriet A., Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, ed. Jean Fagan Yellin (Barbara A. McCaskill): [21] 453-462; (William L. Andrews): [21] 463-465
--, Peripecias en la vida de una joven esclava escritas por ella misma. Junto con "Un relato verdadero de esclavitud" de John S. Jacobs [Trans. Carme Manuel] (Baltasar Fra Molinero and Sue Houchins): [40] 835-837

James, Kelvin Christopher, Jumping Ship and Other Stories (Heather Hathaway): [29] 695-698

Janken, Kenneth Robert, Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual (Sterling Stuckey): [30] 125-127
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Jeffers, Lance, O Africa, Where I Baked My Bread! (James A. Emanuel): [13] 76
--, Grandsire (Ray Fleming): [14] 85-88

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Johnson, Abby Arthur, and Ronald Mayberry Johnson, Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century (Stewart Rodnon): [14] 128-130

Johnson, Barbara, The Feminist Difference: Literature, Psychoanalysis, Race, and Gender (Claudia Tate): [34] 159-162

Johnson, Charles, Soulcatcher and Other Stories (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy): [36] 338-340

Johnson, Dianne, Telling Tales: The Pedagogy and the Promise of African American Literature for Youth (Vera R. Edwards): [28] 153-154
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Johnson, James Weldon, The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Volumes I-II, ed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Robert E. Fleming): [31] 351-352

Johnson, Michael K., Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature (John M. Reilly): [37] 647-649

Jones, Edward P., All Aunt Hagar's Children (Maryemma Graham): [40] 596-598

Jones, Gayl, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature (Gay Wilentz): [28] 141-144
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--, The Healing (Candice M. Jenkins): [34] 365-366
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Jones, LeRoi, Tales (Nick Aaron Ford): [1] 18-19

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Jones, Sharon L., Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West (Martha J. Cutter): [37] 656-657

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Joyce, Joyce Ann, Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism (Madhu Dubey): [30] 464-467

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Keizer, Arlene R., Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Susan Blake): [40] 587-588

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Kinnamon, Keneth, and Michel Fabre, eds., Conversations with Richard Wright (Robert J. Butler): [29] 131-134

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--, ed., The Diaries of Willard Motley (Robert E. Fleming): [14] 84-85

Klotman, Phyllis Rauch, Another Man Gone: The Black Runner in Contemporary Afro-American Literature (Robert Hemenway): [11] 158
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Knight, Etheridge, Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems (Patricia Liggins Hill): [15] 77-79

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Komunyakaa, Yusef, Neon Vernacular (Alvin Aubert): [28] 671-673
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Lively, Adam, Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy): [36] 327-328

Locke, Alain LeRoy, Race Contacts and Interracial Relations (Richard A. Long): [29] 152-153

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Lott, Eric, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Tom Quirk): [29] 512-515

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--, ed., Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach (JoSann Lien): [41] 582-583