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Cervantine Blackness

Nicholas R. Jones

“Cervantine Blackness is a homily. Jones forces readers to reckon with the perils of frameworks that flatten Black people into caricatures that appease white imperial and slavocratic sensibilities. The good news is Jones does not leave us despondent. Incorporating the dynamism of critical Black studies into Cervantine studies, Jones offers theories of Blackness that makes room for characters to move in undulating complexity. This book is an edifying sermon for honest, diligent, and creative thinkers.”—Todne Thomas, author of Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

Emilie Davis’s Civil War

The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865

Edited by Judith Giesberg, transcribed and annotated by The Memorable Days Project

“Both an important educational tool and a vivid depiction of everyday life in a country at war to end the greatest injustice it has ever committed.”—Hope Wabuke, The Root

Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings

Edited by Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola

“Wheeler and Parascandola have done a great service in finding and gathering work by Bennett, an important writer, editor, and artist who has received much less attention than she deserves.”—C. A. Bily, Choice

A Black Philadelphia Reader

African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love

Edited by Louis J. Parascandola

“A Black Philadelphia Reader breaks new ground as it brings to light a rich vein of African American literature that illuminates the souls of Black folk tempered by the spirit of Philadelphia.”—Roland L. Williams Jr., author of Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003

David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

Edited by Peter P. Hinks

“Peter Hinks reintroduces Walker’s abolitionist classic to remind scholars of this erudite black activist; to stress the ‘central function’ of all three versions of the text; . . . and to nuance the political legacy from which Walker sprang and which he conveyed, enhanced, to his heirs.”—Angela M. Leonard North Carolina Historical Review