Reviews

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Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank, Black African Cinema (Suzanne H. MacRae): [31] 132-134

Van Deburg, William L., Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture (Hammet Worthington-Smith): [18] 181-182

Vest, Hilda, Sorrow's End (Fahamisha Patricia Brown): [30] 147-148

Vlach, John Michael, The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (Henry John Drewal): [31] 303- 306

Vogel, Ray, The Other City (William Rosenfeld): [4] 71-72; [6] 95-96

Vogel, Todd, ed., The Black Press: New Literary and Historical Essays (Gerald B. Jordan): [36] 501-503

Von Frank, Albert J., The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston (John Carlos Rowe): [34] 164-165

Wade-Gayles, Gloria, No Crystal Stair: Visions of Race and Sex in Black Women's Fiction (Frances Smith Foster): [19] 93-94
--, ed., My Soul is a Witness: African American Women's Spirituality (Carla L. Peterson): [31] 355-356

Wald, Elijah, Josh White: Society Blues (Emmett G. Price, III): [36] 167-169

Waldron, Edward E., Walter White and the Harlem Renaissance (Nathan Irvin Huggins): [13] 154-155

Walker, Alice, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (C. Lynn Munro): [18] 161
--, Anything We Love Can Be Saved (Joyce Pettis): [33] 715-716
--, By the Light of My Father's Smile (Rudolph P. Byrd): [33] 719-722

Walker, Alice, and Pratibha Parmar, Warrior Marks (Lovalerie King): [31] 542-545

Walker, Ethel Pitts, ed., New Lost Plays by Ed Bullins: An Anthology (James V. Hatch): [29] 524-525

Wall, Cheryl A., Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Farah Jasmine Griffin): [31] 330-332
--, ed., Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook (Daylanne K. English): [35] 669-671

Wallace, Michelle, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Hortense Spillers): [29] 124-125
--, Invisibility Blues--From Pop to Theory (Hortense Spillers): [ 29] 125-126
--, and Gina Dent, eds., Black Popular Culture (Hortense Spillers): [29] 123-124

Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, ed., Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (William Gleason): [39] 245-247

Walvin, James, An African's Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745-1799 (John Saillant): [35] 666-667

Waniek, Marilyn Nelson, Magnificat (Michael S. Weaver): [30] 504-506

Wardi, Anissa Janine, Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature (Michael F. Lynch): [40] 373-376

Warren, Nagueyalti, Lodestar and Other Lights (Ann Folwell Stanford): [28] 676-677

Washington, Jerome, Iron House: Stories from the Yard (Philip Lewis): [30] 497-499

Washington, Mary Helen, ed., Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers (Deborah E. McDowell): [16] 77-79

Waters, Harold A., Théâtre Noir Encyclopédie des pièces écrites en français par des auteurs noirs (Townsend Brewster): [24] 601-604

Watkins, Mel, Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir (Christopher C. DeSantis): [34] 561-562

Watson, Steven, The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 (John McCluskey, Jr.): [31] 329-330

Weatherford, Carole Boston, Juneteenth Jamboree (Heather Ross Miller): [32] 169-171
--, The Tan Chanteuse (Heather Ross Miller): [32] 169-171

Weaver, Afaa Michael, Multitudes: Poems Selected & New (George Elliott Clarke): [35] 494-497

Weaver, Michael S., My Father's Geography (Lenard D. Moore): [28] 314-315

Webb, Constance, Richard Wright: A Biography (Donald B. Gibson): [2] 32

Weems, Mary E., Public Education and Imagination-Intellect: I Speak from the Wound in My Mouth (Meiko Negishi & Anastasia Elder): [39] 473-475

Weinstein, Philip, What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison (William R. Nash): [33] 355-357

Weisenburger, Steven, Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South (Edward Eden): [34] 361-362

Werner, Craig, Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse (John Lowe): [30] 678-68
--, A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America (Robert Cochran): [34] 713-714; (Kofi Natambu): [34] 715-716

Whalan, Mark, ed., The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924 (Kathleen Pfeiffer): [41] 576-578

White, Shane, Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Lauren Hauptman): [37] 430-432

Whitt, Margaret Earley, Understanding Gloria Naylor (Maxine Lavon Montgomery): [35] 159-161

Wickham, Dewayne, Woodholme: A Black Man's Story of Growing Up Alone (Roland L. Williams, Jr.): [33] 174-176

Wideman, John Edgar, Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society (Keith Byerman): [30] 292-293
--, The Cattle Killing (Philip Page): [32] 362-365
--, Two Cities (Kimberly Ruffin): [34] 368-369

Wiegman, Robyn, American Anatomies (Michael Bérubé): [31] 317-320

Wiese, Andrew, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (Fred L. Johnson, III): [39] 615-617

Williams, Claudette M., Charcoal and Cinnamon: The Politics of Color in Spanish Caribbean Literature (Blanca Acosta): [35] 484-485.

Williams, Helen E., Books by African-American Authors and Illustrators (Stan Evans): [28] 684

Williams, Mance, Black Theatre in the 1960s and 1970s: A Historical-Critical Analysis of the Movement (Ketu H. Katrak): [21] 205-209

Williams, Patricia J., The Rooster's Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice (Adrien Katherine Wing): [31] 548-549

Williams, Sherley Anne, Dessa Rose (Doris Davenport): [20] 335-340

Willis, Deborah, and Carla Williams, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History (Bridget R. Cooks): [37] 468-469

Willis, Susan, Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (Hazel V. Carby): [23] 381-387

Wilson, Jr., Charles E., Gloria Naylor: A Critical Companion (Margaret Whitt): [36] 337-338
--, Walter Mosley: A Critical Companion (John M. Reilly): [38] 170-171

Wilson, Harriet E., Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Eric Gardner): [38] 715-718

Wilson, William J., When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor (Daryl Michael Scott): [32] 493-495

Winchell, Donna Haisty, Alice Walker (Martha J. Cutter): [28] 665-667

Wintz, Cary, Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance (Lawrence R. Rodgers): [24] 585-589
--, ed., The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940: The Critics and the Harlem Renaissance, Vol. 4 (Angelyn Mitchell): [32] 495-497
--, ed., The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Vol. 5—Remembering the Harlem Renaissance (A. Yemisi Jimoh): [33] 526-528
--, ed., The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Vol. 6—Analysis and Assessment, 1940-1979 (George Hutchison): [33] 529-530
--, ed., The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Vol. 7—Analysis and Assessment, 1980-1994 (George Hutchison): [33] 529-530
--, ed., The Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940. Vol. 3—Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance (Sarah M. Washington-Favors): [33] 697-699

Wolters, Raymond, Du Bois and His Rivals (Verner D. Mitchell): [40] 392-395

Wonham, Henry B., Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction (Ben Slote): [34] 167-169
--, Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism (Kiyohiko Murayama): [41] 190-193
--, ed, Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies (Georgina Dodge): [32] 331-332

Woods, Paula L., ed., Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes (Robert E. Skinner): [31] 336-337

Woodson, Jon, To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance (C. K. Doreski): [35] 324-326

Wright, Donald R., African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (Raymond F. Dolle): [25] 789-792

Wright, Richard, Native Son (Eugene E. Miller): [27] 687-691
--, Rite of Passage (Robert James Butler): [30] 315-320

Wright, Stephen Caldwell, ed., On Gwendolyn Brooks: Reliant Contemplation (Harry B. Shaw): [32] 499-500

Wyatt, Jean, Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism (Robert Samuels): [39] 607-608

Xing, Jun, and Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, eds., Reversing the Lens: Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film (Debra Johanyak): [38] 164

Yancey, George, Who is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide (Amanda Davis): [38] 159-161

Yellin, Jean Fagan, Women and Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture (Todd S. Gernes): [26] 189-192

Young, Elizabeth, Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War (Nina Baym): [35] 312-314

Young, Kevin, To Repel Ghosts: Five Sides in B Minor (Keith Gilyard): [36] 510-512

Zoggyie, Haakayoo N., In Search of the Fathers: The Poetics of Disalienation in the Narrative of Two Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Writers (Mar Gallego): [39] 471-473

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