Reviews

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Sacks, Marcy S., Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I (David Krasner): [41] 575-576

Sale, Maggie Montesinos, The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity (Angela K. Albright): [33] 686-688

Salem, James M., The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll (Emmett G. Price, III): [35] 322-323

Sallis, James, ed., Ash of Stars: On the Writings of Samuel Delany (Sinda Gregory): [33] 172-173

Sanchez, Sonia, Wounded in the House of a Friend (Joyce Ann Joyce): [31] 376-378
--, Like the Singingi Coming Off the Drums (Yoshinobu Hakutani): [34] 180-181

Sanders, Leslie Catherine, The Development of Black Theater in America: From Shadows to Selves (Eugene Kraft): [23] 175-178

Sanders, Lori, Her Own Place (Lenard D. Moore): [29] 166-167

Sanders, Lynn Moss, Howard W. Odum's Folklore Odyssey: Transformation to Tolerance through African American Folk Studies (Sharon Masingale Bell): [39] 608-10

Sandiford, Keith A., Measuring the Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Afro-English Writing (Paul Edwards): [23] 792-798

Sarsen-Bucky, Frida, Snoopycat: The Adventures of Marian Anderson's Kitten "Snoopy" (Arthenia J. Bates): [1] 19-20

Sartwell, Crispin, Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity (James Olney): [33] 696-697

Saxton, Alexander, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Kiyohiko Murayama): [38] 339-341

Schafer, Judith Kelleher, Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana (Gwendolyn Midlo Hall): [31] 311-312

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The, ed., Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture (Toru Kiuchi): [37] 649-651

Schultz, Bud and Ruth, The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America (Dick Bennett): [36] 684-686

Schuyler, George S., Black Empire (John C. Gruesser): [27] 679-686
--, Ethiopian Stories (Lillie Jones): [31] 182-183

Scott, Lynn Orilla, James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to Journey (D. Quentin Miller): [36] 689-691
--, James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey (Douglas Field): [38] 166-167

Scott, Nathan A., Jr., Visions of Presence in Modern American Poetry (David Perkins): [30] 313-315

Scruggs, Charles, The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (John Edgar Tidwell): [20] 341-344

Sekora, John, and Darwin T. Turner, eds., The Art of the Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.): [17] 131-135

Seraile, William, Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce (John C. Gruesser): [37] 457-460

Settle, Elizabeth A, and Thomas A. Settle, Ishmael Reed: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (Joe Weixlmann): [16] 81-83

Shafer, Yvonne, August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Sandra G. Shannon): [33] 714-715

shange, ntozake, Ridin' the Moon in Texas (Pinkie Gordon Lane): [24] 578-580

Shannon, Sandra, The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson (Barbara Lewis): [33] 712-714

Shapiro, Milton J., Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers (Claramae B. Long): [2] 34-35

Sharpe, Jenny, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives (Robert Fox): [40] 838-839

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean, Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French (Bridget Harris Tsemo): [35] 314-315
--, Negritude Women (Aoi Mori): [37] 658-660

Shaw, Harry B., Gwendolyn Brooks (R. Baxter Miller): [15] 116-118

Shawki, Ahmed, Black Liberation and Socialism (Kenneth J. Bindas): [41] 183-184

Shepherd, Reginald, Wrong (Shara McCallum): [35] 498-499

Sherman, Joan, ed., The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry (Quandra Prettyman): [33] 701-702

Shields, John C., ed., The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley (Raymond Dolle): [23] 601-607

Shockley, Ann Allen, ed., Afro-American Women Writers, 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide (Frances Smith Foster): [24] 151-160

Shucard, Alan R., Countée Cullen (Robert E. Fleming): [19] 129-130

Shuffelton, Frank, ed., A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America (Raymond F. Dolle): [29] 149-152

Shulman, Robert, The Power of Political Art: The 1930s Left Reconsidered (James Smethurst): [35] 660-662

Simawe, Saadi A., ed., Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison (A. Yemisi Jimoh): [37] 168-170

Sims, Rudine, Shadow and Substance: Afro-American Experience in Contemporary Children's Fiction (Charlotte K. Brooks): [17] 136-137

Singh, Amritjit, The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933 (Daniel Walden): [11] 118-119
---, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., and Robert E. Hogan, eds., Memory, Narrative, and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures (Anita Haya Patterson): [30] 470-473

Singh, Nikhil Pal, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Virginia Whatley Smith): [41] 586-588

Singleton, William Henry, Recollections of My Slavery Days (Willard B. Gatewood): [35] 664-666

Slade, John Eaves, But I Am Too a Black Cartoonist! . . . Really! (Gerald B. Jordan): [31] 545-548

Smethurst, James Edward, The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African-American Poetry, 1930-1946 (William J. Maxwell): [35] 143-145

Smith, Anna Deavere, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Elizabeth Brown-Guillory): [31] 372-373

Smith, Barbara, ed., Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (C. Lynn Munro): [18] 175-177

Smith, Jeanne Rosier, Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Alice Hall Petry): [33] 359-360

Smith, Mona Z., Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee (Amina Gautier): [40] 387-389

Smith, Roger, A Huey P. Newton Story (Victor Leo Walker, II): [31] 727-728

Smith, Valerie, ed., New Essays on Song of Solomon (Denise Heinze): [31] 159-161

Smith, Virginia Whatley, ed., Richard Wright's Travel Writings: New Reflections (John M. Reilly): [36] 503-505

Sollors, Werner, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture (Anthony Appiah): [20] 209-224

Sollors, Werner, and Maria Diedrich, eds., The Black Columbiad: Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture (Wolfgang Karrer): [30] 682-685

Solomon, Mark, The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 (Alan Wald): [34] 716-718

Somer, John, and Barbara Eck Cooper, American & British Literature, 1945-1975: An Annotated Bibliography (Joe Weixlmann): [14] 168-169

Sonnier, Jr., Austin, A Guide to the Blues: History, Who's Who, Research Sources (Peter R. Aschoff): [30] 490-492

Sotiropoulos, Karen, Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America (David Krasner): [40] 376-378

Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright, African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks (James V. Hatch): [25] 193-195

Southgate, Robert L., Black Plots and Characters: A Handbook for Afro-American Literature (C. Lynn Munro): [14] 167-168

Spears, Alan, ed., Fast Track, Full Volume: An Anthology (Herbert Woodward Martin): [31] 360-362

Spencer, Jon Michael, The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America (Katya Gibel Azoulay): [33] 151-153

St. John, Primus, Communion: Poems, 1976-1998 (Marilyn Nelson): [35] 340-342

Stauffer, John, The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race (Gary B. Nash): [36] 497-498

Steinberg, Stephen, The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy (Joe R. Feagin): [31] 313-314

Stepto, Robert B., From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative (Susan L. Blake): [14] 160-163
--, Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography (John F. Callahan): [34] 173-176

Sterling, Dorothy, Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls (Sister Constance Welch): [3] 31-32
--, Black Foremothers: Three Lives (Claudia C. Tate): [14] 131-132

Stevenson, Brenda E., Life in Black and White (Robert McColley): [31] 512-514

Still, Judith Anne, Michael J. Dabrishus, and Carolyn L. Quin, William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography (B. A. Nugent): [32] 355-358

Storhoff, Gary, Understanding Charles Johnson (Marc Steinberg): [40] 194-196

Stover, Johnnie M., Rhetoric and Resistance in Black Women's Autobiography (Chris Bell): [39]  469-471

Sullivan, Patricia, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (David L. Chappell): [33] 149-151

Sundquist, Eric J., ed., Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays (John Sekora): [28] 477-479
--, Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (John M. Reilly): [31] 342-343

Sutherland, Luke, Venus As A Boy (Louis Chude-Sokei): [39] 604-607

Sylvander, Carolyn Wade, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer (Nellie Y. McKay): [15] 76-77

Syrotinski, Michael, Singular Performances: Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writings (Robert Samuels): [37] 447-449

Talley, Thomas W., The Negro Traditions, ed. Charles K. Wolfe and Laura C. Jamon (Roger Abrahams): [30] 121-123

Tanner, Jo A., The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress (Joyce Meier): [31] 345-348

Tarry, Ellen, The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman (William L. Andrews): [29] 147-149

Tate, Claudia C., Black Women Writers at Work (C. Lynn Munro): [18] 174-175
--, Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century (Sandra Gunning): [29] 126-129
--, Psychoanalysis and Black Novels (Diane Long Hoeveler): [33] 691-692

Taylor, Ula Yvette, The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey (Tony Martin): [37] 460-461

Taylor-Guthrie, Danille, Conversations with Toni Morrison (Carolyn M. Jones): [31] 161-164

Tervalon, Jervey, Understand This (Richard Yarborough): [33] 374-376

Thomas, Hugh, The Slave Trade (Winthrop Jordan): [33] 688-689

Thomas, Laurence M., Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the Holocaust (Howard H. Harriott): [30] 283-285

Thomas, Lorenzo, Dancing on Main Street (Van G. Garrett): [39] 597-598

Thomas, Lundeana Marie, Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre: Transformational Forces in Harlem (James V. Hatch): [34] 352-353

Thomas, Sheree R., ed., Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Candice M. Jenkins): [34] 726-728

Thompson, George A., Jr., A Documentary History of the African Theater (Erroll Hill): [34] 534-536

Thompson, Julius E., Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 (Lorenzo Thomas): [34] 541-543

Thorp, Roderick, Dionysus (A. Robert Lee): [7] 107

Thurman, Wallace, Infants of the Spring (Eleonore van Notten): [27] 693-695

Touré, Askia M., Dawnsong!: The Epic Memory of Askia Touré (James Smethurst): [36] 343-345

Tracy, Steven C., ed, Write Me A Few Of Your Lines: A Blues Reader (Peter R. Aschoff): [35] 150-152
--, ed., A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison (Edward Margolies): [40] 192-194

Troupe, Quincy, Miles and Me (Douglas Henry Daniels): [35] 152-153

Tucker, Jeffery Allen, A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference (Molefi Kete Asante): [40] 196-197

Tuma, Keith, ed., Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry (Howard Rambsy II): [40] 187-190

Turner, Darwin T., ed., Black American Literature: Essays and Black American Literature: Fiction (Robert E. Fleming): [4] 38, 40
--, ed., The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer (Bernard Bell): [14] 163-164

Turner, Darwin T., and Barbara Dodds Stanford, Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Literature by Afro-Americans (Charles H. Rowell): [7] 16-18, 31

Turner, Patricia A., I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture (Trudier Harris): [30] 117-119

TuSmith, Bonnie, ed., Conversations with John Edgar Wideman (Ashraf H. A. Rushdy): [34] 544-546

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