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    The Man Who Cried I Am

    John A. Williams

    Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists, with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre…

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    Ishmael Reed: The Plays

    Ishmael Reed

    The award-winning plays of one of the most celebrated and innovative American writers of our time.

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    Conversations with Ishmael Reed

    In this collection of candid interviews, Ishmael Reed discusses how critics, especially from the northeastern establishment have consistently marginalized African American writers. As he does in his writing, Reed uses…

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    The Reed Reader

    Ishmael Reed

    African-American writer Ishmael Reed has been described as cavorting like a black bull in the china shop of Western culture . These excerpts from his celebrated novels, poems, plays, and…

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    From Totems to Hip-Hop

    In this broad survey of American poetry since 1900, the editor shows that American literature, from the very beginning, has been as miscegnated as this hemisphere, influenced by a mixture…

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    Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers

    Ishmael Reed

    Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Previously unpublished…

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    The Complete Muhammad Ali

    Ishmael Reed

    Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Ali is more than just a biography - it…

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    Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico

    Ishmael Reed

    Ishmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. With Why No Confederate Statues…

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    The Terrible Fours

    Ishmael Reed

    Part science fiction, part Washington Novel and part Christmas Novel, The Terrible Fours follows The Terrible Twos (1982) and The Terrible Threes (1989). Some characters have been dropped and some…

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    Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers

    Ishmael Reed

    Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Barack Obama confronts the racial tensions that have dogged the president during his campaign and first year in office. Previously unpublished…

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    Going Too Far: Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown

    Ishmael Reed

    Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence-including Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn-it argues…

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    Conjugating Hindi

    Ishmael Reed

    In Ishmael Reed’s Conjugating Hindi, stories, histories and myths of different cultures are mixed and sampled. Modern issues like gentrification addressed. It is the closest that a fiction writer has…

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    Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race War

    Ishmael Reed

    An irreverent, brilliant, politically charged barrage of essays aimed with Reed’s famous vitriol and wit at the perpetrators of America’s war on blacks

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    Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues

    Ishmael Reed,Ishmael Reed

    The poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. When asked to describe the poems here, Ishmael Reed wrote: ‘ The poems are based on events that occurred…

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    Reckless Eyeballing

    Ishmael Reed

    It’s the 1980s and the politics of the New York theater scene have taken yet another turn.

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    Life Among The Aryans

    Ishmael Reed

    America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset.

    The controversial new play from Ishmael Reed, Life Among the Aryans follows John Shaw and Michael…

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    The Slave Who Loved Caviar

    Ishmael Reed

    The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught relationship between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol. The relationship between Andy Warhol…

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    The Haunting Of Lin-manuel Miranda

    Ishmael Reed

    A powerful play the New York Times described as ‘a cross between A Christmas Carol and a trial at The Hague’s International Criminal Court.

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    Juice!

    Ishmael Reed

    A new novel from the most outspoken African-American writer of our time.

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    Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections

    Ishmael Reed

    A new collection from one of our most admired-and feared-literary provocateurs

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    Black Hollywood Unchained

    In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intellectuals, and artist to examine and respond to the contemporary portrayals of Blacks in films. Using the…

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    Mumbo Jumbo

    Ishmael Reed

    This novel examines the African-American culture and its deflation.

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    Flight to Canada

    Ishmael Reed

    Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twin , (SATURDAY REVIEW), this slave’s-eye view of the Civil War exposes America’s racial…

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    The Critical Response to Ishmael Reed

    Bruce Allen Dick,Pavel Zemliansky

    A look at how Reed’s fiction defies popular academic conceptions of what American writers, particularly black American writers, ought to be.

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    New and Collected Poems 1964-2007

    Ishmael Reed

    First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service…

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    Flight to Canada

    Ishmael Reed

    Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twin , (SATURDAY REVIEW), this slave’s-eye view of the Civil War exposes America’s racial…

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    Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

    Calvin C Hernton, Ishmael Reed

    "This volume gathers Hernton's poetic work from 1954 through to 1999-including uncollected poems and the complete text of Hernton's debut chapbook along with poems from Hernton's personal papers. The volume…

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    Sam Gilliam

    Ishmael Reed, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Andria Hickey

    The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam one of the great innovators in post-war American painting

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    A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed’s Chatanooga

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    A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed’s Chatanooga , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

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    Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade

    Charles Freger

    A new series of extraordinary photographic portraits by Charles Freger of the descendants of African slaves in the Americas.

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    Bigotry on Broadway

    In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited a diverse group of informed and accomplished writers, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on…

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    The Collected Novels of Charles Wright: The Messenger, the Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed about

    Charles Wright

    By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three classic American novels create a memorable portrait of a young working-class intellectual from the South and his misadventures with hair straightening…

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    Jitney

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    The eighth play of Wilson’s Century Cycle, set in 1977.

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    Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

    Ishmael Reed

    Ishmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.

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    A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed’s Beware: Do Not Read This Poem

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    A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed’s Beware: Do Not Read This Poem, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…

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    Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight

    Luminous and tranquil, Saar's newest installation uses natural objects and materials to take the viewer on a spiritual journey

    This volume features the Huntington Library and Museum's commissioned site-specific installation…

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    The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology

    Ishmael Reed,Kathryn Trueblood

    This anthology includes 30 selections from a decade of award-winning fiction.

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    African American Humor, Irony and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking

    African American Humor, Irony, and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking includes select proceedings from the annual Heart’s Day Conference, sponsored by the Department of English at Howard University. Among the…

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    The Minister Primarily: A Novel

    John Oliver Killens

    A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black…

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    Surviving Financially in a Rigged System

    Cathy Jackson-Gent

    Cathy Jackson-Gent provides instruction about how to avoid such financial mishaps. She represents a kind of public intellectual, a field that is top heavy with those aim is to change…

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    The Minister Primarily: A Novel

    John Oliver Killens

    A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black…

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    Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo

    Jeffrey Ebbesen

    Explores the work of three traditionally postmodern authors, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker and Don Delillo to highlight some significant flaws in the way postmodernism is categorized. This work contends that…

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    Postmodernism and its Others: The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo

    Jeffrey Ebbesen

    First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel

    John A. Williams

    Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists

    With a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre…

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    An Analysis of Acclimatization in Ishmael Scott Reed’s The Terrible Twos and The Terrible Threes

    Dr C Swathi

    This book expounds on the Art of Acclimatization in the characters of The Terrible Twos and The Terrible Threes by the most notable twentieth-century writer Ishmael Scott Reed. Adaptation has…

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    Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodernist Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany

    Robert E. Fox

    Fox offers a clear and important, if brief, consideration of the fiction of Baraka, Reed, and Delany. Readers will find this volume useful as a starting point for the investigation…

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    Black Fire This Time

    An anthology on the legacy of the Black Arts Movement featuring over 100 poets and writers spanning several decades.

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    Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

    Calvin C Hernton, Ishmael Reed

    "This volume gathers Hernton's poetic work from 1954 through to 1999-including uncollected poems and the complete text of Hernton's debut chapbook along with poems from Hernton's personal papers. The volume…

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