Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

Given by Hurston/Wright Foundation

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The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ is the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. This award consists of prizes for the näytä lisää highest quality writing in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. näytä vähemmän
Stages:
Kaikki, Winner (77), Finalist (17), Nominee (295)
Luokat:
Vuodet:
Kaikki, 2023 (25), 2022 (20), 2021 (9), 2020 (21), 2019 (17), 2018 (19), 2017 (21), 2016 (16), 2015 (19), 2014 (18), 2013 (14), 2012 (14), 2011 (15), 2010 (16), 2009 (15), 2008 (18), 2007 (17), 2006 (18), 2005 (18), 2004 (17), 2003 (17), 2002 (18)

Winner 77

TeosKategoriaVuosi
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories (tekijä: Meron Hadero)Debut Fiction2023
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (tekijä: James Hannaham)General Fiction2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (tekijä: Margaret A. Burnham)Historical Nonfiction2023
Inciting Joy: Essays (tekijä: Ross Gay)Memoir Nonfiction2023
Concentrate: Poems (tekijä: Courtney Faye Taylor)Poetry2023
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (tekijä: TL Huchu)Speculative Fiction2023
This Life: A Novel (tekijä: Quntos KunQuest)Debut Fiction2022
The Trees (tekijä: Percival Everett)Fiction2022
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (tekijä: Howard W. French)Nonfiction2022
No Ruined Stone (tekijä: Shara McCallum)Poetry2022
Remembrance (tekijä: Rita Woods)Debut Fiction2021
Telephone (tekijä: Percival Everett)Hurston/Wright Legacy Award2021
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (tekijä: Marcia Chatelain)Nonfiction2021
Seeing the Body: Poems (tekijä: Rachel Eliza Griffiths)Poetry2021
Africaville: A Novel (tekijä: Jeffrey Colvin)Debut Fiction2020
A Tall History of Sugar (tekijä: Curdella Forbes)Fiction2020
Solitary (tekijä: Albert Woodfox)Nonfiction2020
Exiles of Eden (tekijä: Ladan Ali Osman)Poetry2020
Heads of the Colored People: Stories (tekijä: Nafissa Thompson-Spires)Fiction2019
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem (tekijä: Imani Perry)Nonfiction2019
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (tekijä: Terrance Hayes)Poetry2019
The Talented Ribkins (tekijä: Ladee Hubbard)Debut Novel2018
Black Moses (tekijä: Alain Mabanckou)Fiction2018
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (tekijä: Tiya Miles)Nonfiction2018
semiautomatic (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (tekijä: Evie Shockley)Poetry2018
Damnificados: A Novel (Spectacular Fiction) (tekijä: JJ Amaworo Wilson)Debut Fiction2017
The Underground Railroad (tekijä: Colson Whitehead)Fiction2017
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America (tekijä: Kali Nicole Gross)Nonfiction2017
Bestiary: Poems (tekijä: Donika Kelly)Poetry2017
Mourner's Bench: A Novel (tekijä: Sanderia Faye)Debut Fiction2016
Delicious Foods (tekijä: James Hannaham)fiction2016
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga (tekijä: Pamela Newkirk)Nonfiction2016
Forest Primeval: Poems (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) (tekijä: Vievee Francis)Poetry2016
The Moor's Account (tekijä: Laila Lalami)Fiction2015
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir (tekijä: Elizabeth Nunez)Non-Fiction2015
Citizen: An American Lyric (tekijä: Claudia Rankine)Poetry2015
Half Blood Blues (tekijä: Esi Edugyan)Fiction2013
The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics (tekijä: Frederick Harris)Nonfiction2013
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (American Poets Continuum) (tekijä: Lucille Clifton)Poetry2013
Mr. Fox (tekijä: Helen Oyeyemi)Fiction2012
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (tekijä: Tomiko Brown-Nagin)Nonfiction2012
The new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (tekijä: Evie Shockley)Poetry2012
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (tekijä: Danielle Evans)Fiction2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (tekijä: Isabel Wilkerson)Non-Fiction winner2011
Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 (tekijä: Elizabeth Alexander)Poetry2011
I Am Not Sidney Poitier (tekijä: Percival Everett)Fiction winner2010
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (tekijä: Robin D. G. Kelley)Non-Fiction winner2010
Sonata Mulattica: Poems (tekijä: Rita Dove)Poetry winner2010
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems: 1966-2009 (tekijä: Haki R. Madhubuti)Poetry winner2010
Say You're One of Them (tekijä: Uwem Akpan)Fiction2009
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (tekijä: Frank B. Wilderson, III)Non-Fiction winner2009
The Headless Saints (New Issues Poetry & Prose) (tekijä: Myronn Hardy)Poetry winner2009
She's Gone (tekijä: Kwame Dawes)Debut Fiction2008
Oscar Waon lyhyt ja merkillinen elämä (tekijä: Junot Díaz)Fiction2008
Brother, I'm Dying (tekijä: Edwidge Danticat)Non-Fiction winner2008
Bouquet of Hungers: Poems (tekijä: Kyle Dargan)Poetry winner2008
Ancestor Stones (tekijä: Aminatta Forna)Debut Fiction2007
All Aunt Hagar's Children (tekijä: Edward P. Jones)Fiction2007
Unbowed: A Memoir (tekijä: Wangari Maathai)Non-Fiction winner2007
Puolikas keltaista aurinkoa (tekijä: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)2006
The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries (tekijä: Clyde W. Ford)Contemporary Fiction2006
Freshwater Road (tekijä: Denise Nicholas)Debut Fiction2006
My Jim (tekijä: Nancy Rawles)Fiction2006
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (tekijä: John Hope Franklin)Non-Fiction winner2006
A Woman's Worth: A Novel (Strivers Row) (tekijä: Tracy Price-Thompson)Contemporary Fiction2005
Graceland (tekijä: Chris Abani)Debut Fiction2005
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale (tekijä: Maryse Condé)Fiction2005
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde (tekijä: Alexis De Veaux)Non-Fiction winner2005
Purppuranpunainen hibiskus (tekijä: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)Debut Fiction2004
Hunting in Harlem (tekijä: Mat Johnson)Fiction2004
In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. (tekijä: Wil Haygood)Non-Fiction winner2004
Leaving Atlanta (tekijä: Tayari Jones)Debut Fiction2003
The Heart of Redness (tekijä: Zakes Mda)Fiction2003
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (tekijä: Elizabeth McHenry)2003
Gabriel's Story (tekijä: David Anthony Durham)Debut Fiction2002
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy (tekijä: Ken Wiwa)Non-Fiction winner2002
Erasure (tekijä: Percival Everett)2002

Finalist 17

TeosKategoriaVuosi
Young Blood (tekijä: Sifiso Mzobe)Debut Fiction2022
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev (tekijä: Dawnie Walton)Debut Fiction2022
The Perishing (tekijä: Natashia Deón)Fiction2022
The Rib King (tekijä: Ladee Hubbard)Fiction2022
Reconstruction: Stories (tekijä: Alaya Dawn Johnson)Fiction2022
Yellow Wife (tekijä: Sadeqa Johnson)Fiction2022
Nazaré (Spectacular Fiction) (tekijä: JJ Amaworo Wilson)Fiction2022
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (tekijä: Daphne A. Brooks)Nonfiction (Historical/Social/Political)2022
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (tekijä: Mariame Kaba)Nonfiction (Historical/Social/Political)2022
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (tekijä: Farah Jasmine Griffin)Nonfiction (Memoir/Biography)2022
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song (tekijä: Marlon Peterson)Nonfiction (Memoir/Biography)2022
I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love (tekijä: Mahogany L. Browne)Poetry2022
A more perfect Union (tekijä: Teri Ellen Cross Davis)Poetry2022
Tragic City (tekijä: Clemonce Heard)Poetry2022
Sho (tekijä: Douglas Kearney)Poetry2022
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 (tekijä: Yusef Komunyakaa)Poetry2022
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (tekijä: Vincent Brown)2021

Nominee 295

TeosKategoriaVuosi
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories (tekijä: Meron Hadero)Debut Fiction2023
Finding La Negrita (tekijä: Natasha Gordon-Chipembere)Debut Fiction2023
Nightcrawling (tekijä: Leila Mottley)Debut Fiction2023
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta (tekijä: James Hannaham)General Fiction2023
People Person (tekijä: Candice Carty-Williams)General Fiction2023
The Islands: Stories (tekijä: Dionne Irving)General Fiction2023
Take My Hand (tekijä: Dolen Perkins-Valdez)General Fiction2023
Mother Country: A Novel (tekijä: Jacinda Townsend)General Fiction2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners (tekijä: Margaret A. Burnham)Historical Nonfiction2023
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power (tekijä: Caleb Gayle)Historical Nonfiction2023
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik (tekijä: Winston James)Historical Nonfiction2023
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures) (tekijä: Robert O'Meally)Historical Nonfiction2023
Inciting Joy: Essays (tekijä: Ross Gay)Memoir Nonfiction2023
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown (tekijä: Taylor Harris)Memoir Nonfiction2023
Invisible Boy (tekijä: Harrison Mooney)Memoir Nonfiction2023
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments (tekijä: D. Watkins)Memoir Nonfiction2023
Concentrate: Poems (tekijä: Courtney Faye Taylor)Poetry2023
We Are Not Wearing Helmets: Poems (tekijä: Cheryl Boyce-Taylor)Poetry2023
Plans for Sentences (tekijä: Renee Gladman)Poetry2023
Null landing (tekijä: Isaiah A. Hines)Poetry2023
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness (tekijä: Robin Coste Lewis)Poetry2023
Best Barbarian: Poems (tekijä: Roger Reeves)Poetry2023
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (tekijä: TL Huchu)Speculative Fiction2023
Goliath (tekijä: Tochi Onyebuchi)Speculative Fiction2023
The Last Dreamwalker (tekijä: Rita Woods)Speculative Fiction2023
Black Sunday (tekijä: Tola Rotimi Abraham)Debut Fiction2021
The Coyotes of Carthage (tekijä: Steven Wright)Debut Fiction2021
Ring Shout (tekijä: P. Djèlí Clark)Fiction2021
The Freedom Artist (tekijä: Ben Okri)Fiction2021
Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel Winner) (tekijä: Ron A. Austin)Debut Fiction2020
As a River (tekijä: Sion Dayson)Debut Fiction2020
Speaking of Summer (tekijä: Kalisha Buckhanon)Fiction2020
Patsy (tekijä: Nicole Dennis-Benn)Fiction2020
Gingerbread (tekijä: Helen Oyeyemi)Fiction2020
The World Doesn't Require You: Stories (tekijä: Rion Amilcar Scott)Fiction2020
The Revisioners (tekijä: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton)Fiction2020
Open Season: The Systemic Legalization of Discrimination (tekijä: Ben Crump)Nonfiction2020
Think Black: A Memoir (tekijä: Clyde W. Ford)Nonfiction2020
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (tekijä: Saidiya Hartman)Nonfiction2020
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood (tekijä: Dani McClain)Nonfiction2020
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (tekijä: Damon Young)Nonfiction2020
Night Angler (American Poets Continuum) (tekijä: Geffrey Davis)Poetry2020
1919 (tekijä: Eve L. Ewing)Poetry2020
& more black (tekijä: t'ai freedom ford)Poetry2020
Library of Small Catastrophes (tekijä: Alison C. Rollins)Poetry2020
Syncope (tekijä: Asiya Wadud)Poetry2020
Friday Black (tekijä: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah)Fiction2019
A Lucky Man: Stories (tekijä: Jamel Brinkley)Fiction2019
Brother (tekijä: David Chariandy)Fiction2019
Washington Black (tekijä: Esi Edugyan)Fiction2019
She Would Be King (tekijä: Wayétu Moore)Fiction2019
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster (tekijä: Stephen L. Carter)Nonfiction2019
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (tekijä: Brittney C. Cooper)Nonfiction2019
Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing (tekijä: Wil Haygood)Nonfiction2019
Heavy: An American Memoir (tekijä: Kiese Laymon)Nonfiction2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (tekijä: Jeffrey C. Stewart)Nonfiction2019
Approaching the Fields: Poems (tekijä: Chanda Feldman)Poetry2019
DiVida (tekijä: Monica A. Hand)Poetry2019
Mend: Poems (Contemporary Poetry And Prose) (tekijä: Kwoya Fagin Maples)Poetry2019
Crosslight for Youngbird (tekijä: Asiya Wadud)Poetry2019
What We Lose (tekijä: Zinzi Clemmons)Debut Fiction2018
Menneisyyden kaiku (tekijä: Rivers Solomon)Debut Fiction2018
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (tekijä: Lesley Nneka Arimah)Fiction2018
The Tragedy of Brady Sims (tekijä: Ernest J. Gaines)Fiction2018
Dance of the Jakaranda (tekijä: Peter Kimani)Fiction2018
The Woman Next Door (tekijä: Yewande Omotoso)Fiction2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing (tekijä: Jesmyn Ward)Fiction2018
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (tekijä: Danielle S. Allen)Nonfiction2018
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy (tekijä: Sheryll Cashin)Nonfiction2018
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (tekijä: Camille T. Dungy)Nonfiction2018
City of Bones: A Testament (Triquarterly Books) (tekijä: Kwame Dawes)Poetry2018
Trophic Cascade (tekijä: Camille T. Dungy)Poetry2018
In the Language of My Captor (tekijä: Shane McCrae)Poetry2018
Ordinary Beast: Poems (tekijä: Nicole Sealey)Poetry2018
Incendiary Art: Poems (tekijä: Patricia Smith)Poetry2018
Blackass (tekijä: A. Igoni Barrett)Debut Fiction2017
Born On a Tuesday (tekijä: Elnathan John)Debut Fiction2017
The Mother (tekijä: Yvvette Edwards)Fiction2017
The Loss of All Lost Things (tekijä: Amina Gautier)Fiction2017
The Book of Harlan (tekijä: Bernice L. McFadden)Fiction2017
Swing Time (tekijä: Zadie Smith)Fiction2017
Another Brooklyn (tekijä: Jacqueline Woodson)Fiction2017
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (tekijä: Patricia Bell-Scott)Nonfiction2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (tekijä: Ibram X. Kendi)Nonfiction2017
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome (tekijä: Alondra Nelson)Nonfiction2017
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (tekijä: Christina Sharpe)Nonfiction2017
Another Day in the Death of America (tekijä: Gary Younge)Nonfiction2017
The Crown Ain't Worth Much (tekijä: Hanif Abdurraqib)Poetry2017
play dead (tekijä: francine j harris)Poetry2017
Third Voice: Poems (tekijä: Ruth Ellen Kocher)Poetry2017
Rapture: Poems (tekijä: Sjohnna McCray)Poetry2017
Thief in the Interior (tekijä: Phillip B. Williams)Poetry2017
The Star Side of Bird Hill (tekijä: Naomi Jackson)Debut Fiction2016
The Fishermen (tekijä: Chigozie Obioma)Debut Fiction2016
The Sellout (tekijä: Paul Beatty)Fiction2016
The Turner House (tekijä: Angela Flournoy)Fiction2016
Welcome to Braggsville (tekijä: T. Geronimo Johnson)Fiction2016
Under the Udala Trees (tekijä: Chinelo Okparanta)Fiction2016
The Lost Child (tekijä: Caryl Phillips)Fiction2016
The Light of the World: A Memoir (tekijä: Elizabeth Alexander)Nonfiction2016
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (tekijä: Gerald Horne)Nonfiction2016
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture (tekijä: Ron Stodghill)Nonfiction2016
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness (tekijä: Harriet A. Washington)Nonfiction2016
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America (tekijä: D. Watkins)Nonfiction2016
The Secret History of Las Vegas (tekijä: Chris Abani)Fiction2015
Radiance of Tomorrow (tekijä: Ishmael Beah)Fiction2015
An Untamed State (tekijä: Roxane Gay)Fiction2015
Land of love and drowning : a novel (tekijä: Tiphanie Yanique)Fiction2015
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (tekijä: Danielle S. Allen)Non-Fiction2015
Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) (tekijä: Saladin Ambar)Non-Fiction2015
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (tekijä: Charles M. Blow)Non-Fiction2015
Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America (tekijä: Bob Herbert)Non-Fiction2015
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (tekijä: Charles E. Cobb Jr.)Non-Fiction2015
Revising the Storm (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America) (tekijä: Geffrey Davis)Poetry2015
We Didn't Know Any Gangsters (tekijä: Brian Gilmore)Poetry2015
Digest (Stahlecker Selections) (tekijä: Gregory Pardlo)Poetry2015
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin) (tekijä: Willie Perdomo)Poetry2015
King Me (tekijä: Roger Reeves)Poetry2015
The Moor's Account (tekijä: Laila Lalami)2015
The Orchard of Lost Souls (tekijä: Nadifa Mohamed)2015
Every Boy Should Have a Man (tekijä: Preston L. Allen)Fiction2014
Me tarvitaan uudet nimet (tekijä: NoViolet Bulawayo)Fiction2014
The Residue Years (tekijä: Mitchell S. Jackson)Fiction2014
See Now Then (tekijä: Jamaica Kincaid)Fiction2014
The Good Lord Bird (tekijä: James McBride)Fiction2014
The gospel according to Cane (tekijä: Courttia Newland)Fiction2014
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home (tekijä: Sheri Booker)Nonfiction2014
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker (tekijä: Stanley Crouch)Nonfiction2014
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (tekijä: William P. Jones)Nonfiction2014
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora (tekijä: Emily Raboteau)Nonfiction2014
Men We Reaped (tekijä: Jesmyn Ward)Nonfiction2014
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities (tekijä: Craig Steven Wilder)Nonfiction2014
What We Ask Of Flesh (tekijä: Remica L. Bingham)Poetry2014
Hemming the Water (Stahlecker Selections) (tekijä: Yona Harvey)Poetry2014
Darktown Follies: Poems (tekijä: Amaud Jamaul Johnson)Poetry2014
The Cineaste: Poems (tekijä: A. Van Jordan)Poetry2014
The Big Smoke (Penguin Poets) (tekijä: Adrian Matejka)Poetry2014
Silverchest: Poems (tekijä: Carl Phillips)Poetry2014
Elsewhere, California: A Novel (tekijä: Dana Johnson)Fiction2013
The Cutting Season: A Novel (tekijä: Attica Locke)Fiction2013
Huonetta ja sukua (tekijä: Ayana Mathis)Fiction2013
Gathering of Waters (tekijä: Bernice L. McFadden)Fiction2013
There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra (tekijä: Chinua Achebe)Nonfiction2013
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City (tekijä: Natalie Hopkinson)Nonfiction2013
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free (tekijä: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot)Nonfiction2013
The End of American Lynching (tekijä: Ashraf H. A. Rushdy)Nonfiction2013
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (tekijä: Heather Andrea Williams)Nonfiction2013
But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (tekijä: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram)Poetry2013
me and Nina (tekijä: Monica Hand)Poetry2013
Crossbones (tekijä: Nuruddin Farah)Fiction2012
Silver Sparrow (tekijä: Tayari Jones)Fiction2012
You Are Free: Stories (tekijä: Danzy Senna)Fiction2012
Salvage the Bones (tekijä: Jesmyn Ward)Fiction2012
Zone One (tekijä: Colson Whitehead)Fiction2012
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America (tekijä: Melissa V. Harris-Perry)Nonfiction2012
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (tekijä: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts)Nonfiction2012
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (tekijä: Binyavanga Wainaina)Nonfiction2012
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir (tekijä: Mark Whitaker)Nonfiction2012
Kingdom Animalia (tekijä: Aracelis Girmay)Poetry2012
Life on Mars: Poems (tekijä: Tracy K. Smith)Poetry2012
Glorious (tekijä: Bernice L. McFadden)Fiction2011
How to Read the Air (tekijä: Dinaw Mengestu)Fiction2011
Wench (tekijä: Dolen Perkins-Valdez)Fiction2011
Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans (tekijä: Rosalyn Story)Fiction2011
How to escape from a leper colony : a novella and stories (tekijä: Tiphanie Yanique)Fiction2011
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism (tekijä: Keith Gilyard)Nonfiction2011
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 (tekijä: Lawrence P. Jackson)Nonfiction2011
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation (tekijä: Rawn James Jr.)Nonfiction2011
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth (tekijä: Ben Shapiro)Nonfiction2011
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture (tekijä: Thomas Chatterton Williams)Nonfiction2011
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (tekijä: Thomas Sayers Ellis)Poetry2011
Lighthead (tekijä: Terrance Hayes)Poetry2011
Blonde Roots (tekijä: Bernardine Evaristo)Fiction2010
The Trial of Robert Mugabe (tekijä: Chielo Zona Eze)Fiction2010
Big Machine: A Novel (tekijä: Victor LaValle)Fiction2010
Black Water Rising (tekijä: Attica Locke)Fiction2010
Sag Harbor (tekijä: Colson Whitehead)Fiction2010
Freedom by Any Means: Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad (tekijä: Betty DeRamus)Nonfiction2010
Sweet Thunder: the Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (tekijä: Wil Haygood)Nonfiction2010
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama (tekijä: Gwen Ifill)Nonfiction2010
Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial (tekijä: James A. Miller)Nonfiction2010
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (tekijä: William Julius Wilson)Nonfiction2010
Gospel (tekijä: Samiya Bashir)Poetry2010
Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (tekijä: Mitchell L.H. Douglas)Poetry2010
Holding Pattern: Stories (tekijä: Jeffery Renard Allen)Fiction2009
Stand the Storm: A Novel (tekijä: Breena Clarke)Fiction2009
Blood Colony (tekijä: Tananarive Due)Fiction2009
Song Yet Sung (tekijä: James McBride)Fiction2009
Where the Line Bleeds (tekijä: Jesmyn Ward)Fiction2009
The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (tekijä: Sheryll Cashin)Nonfiction2009
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (tekijä: Ta-Nehisi Coates)Nonfiction2009
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend (tekijä: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina)Nonfiction2009
Ida: A Sword Among Lions (tekijä: Paula J. Giddings)Nonfiction2009
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power (tekijä: Marcus Reeves)Nonfiction2009
Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose) (tekijä: Jericho Brown)Poetry2009
Warhorses: Poems (tekijä: Yusef Komunyakaa)Poetry2009
Like Trees, Walking: A Novel (tekijä: Ravi Howard)Debut Fiction2008
Them (tekijä: Nathan McCall)Debut Fiction2008
The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories (The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) (tekijä: Jan Carew)Fiction2008
The Story of the Cannibal Woman (tekijä: Maryse Condé)Fiction2008
Measuring Time (tekijä: Helon Habila)Fiction2008
The Book of Negroes (tekijä: Lawrence Hill)Fiction2008
The Opposite House (tekijä: Helen Oyeyemi)Fiction2008
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why (tekijä: Jabari Asim)Nonfiction2008
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, (tekijä: Sylviane A. Diouf)Nonfiction2008
Pakomatkalla (tekijä: Ayaan Hirsi Ali)Nonfiction2008
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade (tekijä: Gerald Horne)Nonfiction2008
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century (tekijä: Sherrilyn A. Ifill)Nonfiction2008
Conversion (tekijä: Remica L. Bingham)Poetry2008
Quantum Lyrics: Poems (tekijä: A. Van Jordan)Poetry2008
Unburnable (tekijä: Marie-Elena John)Debut Fiction2007
Get Down: Stories (tekijä: Asali Solomon)Debut Fiction2007
Puolikas keltaista aurinkoa (tekijä: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)Fiction2007
Dominion: A Novel (tekijä: Calvin Baker)Fiction2007
Nowhere Is a Place (tekijä: Bernice L. McFadden)Fiction2007
Jump at the Sun (tekijä: Kim McLarin)Fiction2007
Variksen Velho (tekijä: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)Fiction2007
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) (tekijä: Louis Chude-Sokei)Nonfiction2007
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley (tekijä: Christopher John Farley)Nonfiction2007
BookMarks: Reading in Black and White: A Memoir (tekijä: Karla F. C. Holloway)Nonfiction2007
The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (tekijä: Kym Ragusa)Nonfiction2007
The River Flows on: Black Resistance, Culture, And Identity Formation in Early America (tekijä: Walter C. Rucker)Nonfiction2007
Wind in a Box (Poets, Penguin) (tekijä: Terrance Hayes)Poetry2007
The Architecture of Language (tekijä: Quincy Troupe)Poetry2007
Who Does She Think She Is? (tekijä: Benilde Little)Contemporary Fiction2006
Love on the Dotted Line: A Novel (tekijä: David E. Talbert)Contemporary Fiction2006
Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe (tekijä: Doreen Baingana)Debut Fiction2006
Upstate (tekijä: Kalisha Buckhanon)Debut Fiction2006
Joplin's Ghost (tekijä: Tananarive Due)Fiction2006
Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal (tekijä: David Anthony Durham)Fiction2006
The Untelling (tekijä: Tayari Jones)Fiction2006
Dancing in the Dark (tekijä: Caryl Phillips)Fiction2006
Third Girl from the Left (tekijä: Martha Southgate)Fiction2006
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (tekijä: Mary Frances Berry)Nonfiction2006
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood (tekijä: Donald Bogle)Nonfiction2006
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists (tekijä: Lisa E. Farrington)Nonfiction2006
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures Series) (tekijä: Dwight A. McBride)Nonfiction2006
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (tekijä: Cheryl A. Wall)Nonfiction2006
Shifting Through Neutral (tekijä: Bridgett M. Davis)Contemporary Fiction2005
Bling: A Novel (tekijä: Erica Kennedy)Contemporary Fiction2005
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne (tekijä: Esi Edugyan)Debut Fiction2005
The Darkest Child (tekijä: Delores Phillips)Debut Fiction2005
The Dew Breaker (tekijä: Edwidge Danticat)Fiction2005
American Desert (tekijä: Percival Everett)Fiction2005
Links (tekijä: Nuruddin Farah)Fiction2005
The Madonna of Excelsior (tekijä: Zakes Mda)Fiction2005
The Man in My Basement (tekijä: Walter Mosley)Fiction2005
The Black Interior (tekijä: Elizabeth Alexander)Nonfiction2005
The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream (tekijä: Sheryll Cashin)Nonfiction2005
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge (tekijä: Ellis Cose)Nonfiction2005
The End of Blackness (tekijä: Debra J. Dickerson)Nonfiction2005
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (tekijä: Howard W. French)Nonfiction2005
A Place Between Stations: Stories (tekijä: Stephanie Allen)Debut Fiction2004
Daughter (tekijä: Asha Bandele)Debut Fiction2004
Getting Mother's Body (tekijä: Suzan-Lori Parks)Debut Fiction2004
Knee-Deep in Wonder: A Novel (tekijä: April Reynolds)Debut Fiction2004
Hottentot Venus (tekijä: Barbara Chase-Riboud)Fiction2004
The Polished Hoe (tekijä: Austin Clarke)Fiction2004
The Salt Roads (tekijä: Nalo Hopkinson)Fiction2004
The Known World (tekijä: Edward P. Jones)Fiction2004
A Distant Shore (tekijä: Caryl Phillips)Fiction2004
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (tekijä: Valerie Boyd)Nonfiction2004
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey (tekijä: Lynne Duke)Nonfiction2004
Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful (tekijä: Susan Fales-Hill)Nonfiction2004
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (tekijä: E. Patrick Johnson)Nonfiction2004
Somebody's Someone: A Memoir (tekijä: Regina Louise)Nonfiction2004
A Little Piece of Sky (tekijä: Nicole Bailey-Williams)Debut Fiction2003
River Woman (tekijä: Donna Hemans)Debut Fiction2003
Fifth Born (tekijä: Zelda Lockhart)Debut Fiction2003
Gigantic (tekijä: Marc Nesbitt)Debut Fiction2003
Song of the Water Saints (tekijä: Nelly Rosario)Debut Fiction2003
The Ecstatic (tekijä: Victor LaValle)Fiction2003
Discretion (tekijä: Elizabeth Nunez)Fiction2003
Douglass' Women : A Novel (tekijä: Jewell Parker Rhodes)Fiction2003
Without a Name and Under the Tongue (tekijä: Yvonne Vera)Fiction2003
Water Street (tekijä: Crystal Wilkinson)Fiction2003
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial (tekijä: Karla F. C. Holloway)Nonfiction2003
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius (tekijä: Lawrence Jackson)Nonfiction2003
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family (tekijä: Carole Merritt)Nonfiction2003
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America (tekijä: Leon E. Wynter)Nonfiction2003
Breathing Room (tekijä: Patricia Elam)Debut Fiction2002
The Red Moon (tekijä: Kuwana Haulsey)Debut Fiction2002
Break Any Woman Down (tekijä: Dana Johnson)Debut Fiction2002
Greenwichtown: A Novel (tekijä: Joyce Palmer)Debut Fiction2002
The Dying Ground (tekijä: Nichelle D. Tramble)Debut Fiction2002
October Suite (tekijä: Maxine Clair)Fiction2002
Bombingham (tekijä: Anthony Grooms)Fiction2002
The Warmest December (tekijä: Bernice L. McFadden)Fiction2002
He Sleeps: A Novel (tekijä: Reginald McKnight)Fiction2002
Fearless Jones (tekijä: Walter Mosley)Fiction2002
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker (tekijä: A'Lelia Bundles)Nonfiction2002
Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story (tekijä: Michael Datcher)Nonfiction2002
Salvation: Black People and Love (tekijä: bell hooks)Nonfiction2002
Impossible witnesses : truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony (tekijä: Dwight A. McBride)Nonfiction2002
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 (tekijä: Paul Robeson)Nonfiction2002

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