Reviews

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Mabee, Carlton, with Susan Mabee Newhouse, Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (Kimberly Rae Connor): [30] 294-297

MacCann, Donnarae, and Gloria Woodard, The Black American in Books for Children: Readings in Racism (Frances Smith Foster): [21] 199-204

Mackey, Nathaniel, Djbot Baghostus's Run (Karla F. C. Holloway): [29] 698-700
--, Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (Heather Hathaway): [30] 133-135
--, School of Udhra (Mark Scroggins): [30] 324-327
--, Whatsaid Serif (Mark Scroggins): [34] 555-558

Madgett, Naomi Long, Exits and Entrances (Ray Fleming): [14] 85-88
--, Remembrances of Spring: Collected Early Poems (Pinkie Gordon Lane): [30] 143-145

Madhubuti, Haki R., GroundWork: New and Selected Poems of Don L. Lee/Haki R. Madhubuti from 1966-1996 (Keith Gilyard): [33] 176-179

Maguire, Roberta S., ed., Conversations with Albert Murray (Warren J. Carson): [34] 547-548

Mahone, Sydney, ed., Moon Marked and Touched by Sun: Plays by African-American Women (A. Yemisi Jimoh): [30] 488-490
--, ed., Moon Marked and Touched by the Sun: Plays by African American Women (Marta Effinger): [31] 738-740

Major, Clarence, All-Night Visitors (Ronald Fair): [13] 73; (Ishmael Reed): [13] 73
--, One Flesh (Robert Butler): [39] 251-252

Manzano, Juan Francisco, The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave, ed. Edward J. Mullen (Richard Jackson): [18] 40

Mapp, Edward, Directory of Blacks in the Performing Arts (Horace Coleman): [13] 75-76

Margolick, David, Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights (Douglas Henry Daniels): [37] 154-155

Margolies, Edward, and David Bakish, Afro-American Fiction, 1853-1976: A Guide to Information Sources (Joe Weixlmann): [14] 44-46

Margolies Edward, and Michael Fabre, The Several Lives of Chester Himes (Mark A. Sanders): [33] 368-369

Martin, Herbert Woodward, The Log of the Vigilante (George Elliott Clarke): [36] 350-351
--, and Ronald Primeau, eds., In His Own Voice: The Dramatic and Other Uncollected Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.): [37] 456-457

Martin, Jonathan D., Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South (Patricia E. Clark): [39] 465-466

Martin, Reginald, Ishmael Reed and the New Black Aesthetic Critics (Maryemma Graham): [24] 590-593

Marvin X (Marvin E. Jackmon) [El Muhajir], Somethin' Proper: The Life and Times of a North American African Poet (Julius E. Thompson): [35] 158-159

Massood, Paula J., Black City Cinema: African American Urban Experiences in Film (Lovalerie King): [37] 445-447

Matus, Jill, Toni Morrison (Tracy Curtis): [34] 359-360

Maxwell, William J., New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars (James A. Miller): [35] 142-143

Maynard, Robert C., with Dori J. Maynard, Letters to My Children (Gerald B. Jordan): [31] 545-548

McBride, Dwight A., Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony (Sandra Burr): [37] 150-151

McCall, Nathan, Makes Me Wanna Holler (Arnold L. King): [30 ] 486-488

McCarthy, Sheryl, Why Are the Heroes Always White? (Gerald B. Jordan): [31] 545-548

McClane, Kenneth A., Take Five (Alvin Aubert): [23] 608-614

McClendon, Jacquelyn Y., The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen (Jennifer De Vere Brody): [31] 528-529

McCluskey, John, Jr., ed., The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher (Julie Brown): [26] 524

McDonald, Roderick A., The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana (Robert L. Harris, Jr.): [29] 510-512

McDowell, Deborah E., “The Changing Same”: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory (Thomas Fahy): [33] 534-536
--, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin (Ethel Morgan Smith): [33] 716-717

McElrath, Joseph R., Jr., ed., Critical Essays on Charles W. Chesnutt (Robert E. Fleming): [35] 154-155

McEvoy, Seth, Samuel R. Delany (Mary Kay Bray): [19] 171-172

McFeely, William S., Frederick Douglass (John Sekora): [28] 473-477

McKay, Claude, Complete Poems (Gary E. Holcomb): [40] 383-385

McKay, Nellie Y., Jean Toomer, Artist: A Study of His Literary Life and Work, 1894-1936 (Maryemma Graham): [19] 91-93

McKnight, Reginald, He Sleeps (Warren J. Carson): [37] 172-173

McPherson, Dolly A., Order Out of Chaos: The Autobiographical Works of Maya Angelou (Mary Jane Lupton): [24] 809-814

McWilliams, Jim, ed., Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson (Marc C. Conner): [39] 481-483

Mensh, Elaine and Harry, Black, White & Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream (Shelley Fisher Fishkin): [35] 153-154

Meriwether, Louise, Fragments of the Ark (Rita B. Dandridge): [30] 494-497

Miller, D. Quentin, ed., Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen (Gary Storhoff): [35] 671-673

Miller, E. Ethelbert, Seasons of Hunger/Cry of Rain (Lateifa Ramona L. Hyman): [17] 182
--, ed., In Search of Color Everywhere (Lorenzo Thomas): [31] 357-359
--, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (Jerry W. Ward, Jr.): [36] 507-508
--, How We Sleep on The Nights We Don't Make Love (Priscilla R. Ramsey): [40] 379-381

Miller, Marc H., ed., Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy (Krin Gabbard): [30] 306-308

Miller, R. Baxter, Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks: A Reference Guide (William H. Hansell): [13] 74-75
--, ed., Black American Literature and Humanism (Joe Weixlmann): [15] 118-119

Minton, John, "Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid": An Afro-American Folk Tale (Anand Prahlad): [30] 309-311

Mishkin, Tracy, The Harlem and Irish Renaissances: Language, Identity, and Representation (James Smethurst): [34] 523-535

Mishkin, Tracy, ed., Literary Influence and African American Writers (George Hutchinson): [31] 523-525

Mitchell, Loften, Black Drama (William Rosenfeld): [4] 143-144

Mitchell, Verner D., This Waiting For Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Lesley Wheeler): [36] 340-342

Montelaro, Janet J., Producing a Womanist Text: The Maternal as Signifier in Alice Walker's The Color Purple (Mary Margaret Richards): [32] 503-504

Moore, Lenard D., The Open Eye (Jerry W. Ward, Jr.): [19] 133-134
--, Poetry Reading (Matthew C. Brennan): [28] 681-682
--, Forever Home (Matthew C. Brennan): [30] 145-147

Morejón, Nancy, Looking Within: Selected Poems, 1954-2000 / Mirar Adentro: Poemas Escogidos, 1954-2000 (Carol Maier): [39] 252-254

Morgan, Stacy I., Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953 ('BioDun J. Ogundayo): [39] 475-477

Morrison, Toni, Beloved (Karla F. C. Holloway): [23] 179-182
--, Playing in the Dark (Hisham M. Amin and Donald Klein): [28] 659-663
--, Paradise (Evelyn E. Shockley): [33] 718-719

Moses, Greg, Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence (Hans A. Baer): [32] 358-359

Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Nell Irvin Painter): [35] 133-135

Mostern, Kenneth, Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth Century America (Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo): [35] 309-310

Moten, Fred, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Candice M. Jenkins): [38] 344-345

Mowoe, Isaac James, and Richard Bjornson, eds., Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire (Christopher L. Miller): [21] 217-224

Mullen, Bill V., Popular Fronts: Chicago and American Cultural Politics, 1935-46 (Barbara Foley): [35] 140-141

Mullen, Bill, and Sherry Linkon, eds., Radical Revisions (James Smethurst): [31] 518-520

Mullen, Edward J., Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti (Richard K. Barksdale): [13] 32

Mullen, Harryette, Sleeping with the Dictionary (Lorenzo Thomas): [36] 697-699

Murray, Albert, The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement (Carolyn M. Jones): [33] 168-170

Nadel, Alan, ed., May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson (Leslie Catherine Sanders): [31] 151-154

Natambu, Kofi, ed., Nostalgia for the Present: An Anthology of Writings (from Detroit) (Barbara Harlow): [20] 317-326

Naylor, Gloria, The Men of Brewster Place (Maxine Lavon Montgomery): [34] 176-178

Neal, Mark Anthony, What Said: Black Popular Music and Black Popular Culture (Edward Pavlić): [34] 348-352
--, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (William L. Van Deburg): [36] 691-693
--, Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (Heather Duerre Humann): [39] 255

Nelson, Dana D., The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867 (Gary Ashwill): [30] 286-289

Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed., African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook (Alice A. Deck): [37] 149

Nelson, Marilyn, The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems (Miller Williams): [33] 179-181
--, Carver: A Life in Poems (Herbert Woodward Martin): [36] 345-349

Nelson, Raymond, ed., "Harlem Gallery" and Other Poems, by Melvin B. Tolson (Edward Brunner): [35] 156-157

Newman, Richard, Black Access: A Bibliography of Afro-American Bibliographies (Joe Weixlmann): [18] 182

Nichols, Charles H., ed., Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967 (R. Baxter Miller): [15] 113-116

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, Writing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality (William Doreski): [30] 677-678
--, C. L. R. James: A Critical Introduction (Paul Buhle): [33] 707-708
--, Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Lorenzo Thomas): [34] 157-159
--, Reading Race in American Poetry: "An Area of Act" (Michael Antonucci): [36] 146-147
--, and Lauri Ramey, eds., Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetries by African American Artists (Howard Rambsy II): [40] 187-190

North, Michael, The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and Twentieth-Century Literature (Susan M. Marren): [32] 333-335

Nuñez, Elizabeth, Beyond the Limbo Silence (Heather Hathaway): [34] 552-553
--, Bruised Hibiscus (Sandra Adell): [35] 681-683

Nurse, Donna Bailey, What's a Black Critic to Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers (Eric Gardner): [38] 737-737

O'Daniel, Therman B., ed., James Baldwin: A Critical Evaluation (Keneth Kinnamon): [13] 33
--, ed., Jean Toomer: A Critical Evaluation (Onita Estes-Hicks): [24] 165-176

Ojo-Ade, Femi, ed., Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (Adebayo Williams): [33] 530-533

Okantah, Mwatabu S., Reconnecting Memories: Dreams No Longer Deferred (Idris Kabir Syed): [39] 600-602

Olaniyan, Tejumola, Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance (George Woodyard): [31] 323- 325; (William W. Cook): [31] 729-732

O'Meally, Robert G., The Craft of Ralph Ellison (Chester J. Fontenot): [15] 79-80

Onweume, Osonye Tess, What Mama Said: An Epic Drama (N. Graham Nesmith): [39] 256-257

O'Reilly, Andrea, Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart (Aoi Mori): [40] 177-180

Orleck, Annelise, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Vivyan Adair with Paulette Brown, Jamie L. Clark, and Rosie Cotrich Perez): [40] 180-182

Osagie, Iyunolu Folayan, The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone (Diedre L. Badejo): [37] 435-438

Ostrom, Hans, A Langston Hughes Encyclopedia (Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper): [37] 162-165
--, Langston Hughes: A Study of the Short Fiction (R. Baxter Miller): [38] 723-727

Owomoyela, Oyekan, ed., A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures (Bernard Nganga): [30] 136-138

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