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Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown

Krystyn R. Moon, David Krasner, Thomas L. Riis
pp. 7-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0012
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Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes; or, the “Colored Historian’s” Resistance to the Technologies of Power in Postwar America

Carme Manuel
pp. 25-48
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0019
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Invisible Blackness in Edith Wharton’s Old New York

Hildegard Hoeller
pp. 49-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0026
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There is Heterosexuality: Jessie Fauset, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Problem of Desire

Mason Stokes
pp. 67-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0033
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Movies, Modernity, and All that Jazz: Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred

Bartholomew Brinkman
pp. 85-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0040
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Out of the Black Past: The Image of the Fugitive Slave in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past

Charles Scruggs
pp. 97-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0003
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Circling Meaning in Toni Morrison’s Sula

Claude Pruitt
pp. 115-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0009
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“Trying to find a place when the streets don’t go there”: Fatherhood, Family, and American Racial Politics in Toni Morrison’s Love

Mary Paniccia Carden
pp. 131-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0016
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“Belated Impress”: River George and the African American Shell Shock Narrative

Trevor Dodman
pp. 149-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0023
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Duplicities of Power: Amiri Baraka’s and Lorenzo Thomas’s Responses to September 11

John R. O. Gery
pp. 167-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0030
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Ailerons & Elevators

Lorenzo Thomas
pp. 181-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0037
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Ralph Ellison’s Righteous Riffs: Jazz, Democracy, and the Sacred

Steve Pinkerton
pp. 185-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0001
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Mary Turner’s Blues

Julie Buckner Armstrong
pp. 207-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0007
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No Name in the South: James Baldwin and the Monuments of Identity

Kevin Birmingham
pp. 221-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0014
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What Child Is This?: Closely Reading Collectivity and Queer Childrearing in Lackawanna Blues and Noah’s Arc

Vincent Stephens
pp. 235-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0021
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My Hand, and: Migration Story, and: Percival Road, and: Communion, and: West 148th St. Canvas, and: What to Say, But

DéLana R. A. Dameron
pp. 255-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0028
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Night in Limestone Country

Kwoya Fagin
p. 258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0035
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Hagar's Fever, A Lament, and: Alice Paints the Moon Mad, and: La Tête du Soleil, and: Janie Talkin' In Her Sleep, and: Guitar Soliloquy, and: Celie's Notes: Dear God

Rachel Eliza Griffiths
pp. 259-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0042
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When There Is a Birth or Regeneration

Rabiul Hasan
p. 266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0005
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Harmattan

Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
pp. 267-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0011
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The Virgin in the Yard

Natasha Marin
p. 269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0018
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My Mother's Hands, and: We Got That Swing

Dennell Reynolds
p. 270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0025
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The Monarch across the Street

Paul Alan Fahey
pp. 271-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0032
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If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality (review)

Katharine Capshaw Smith
pp. 279-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0039
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African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (review)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin
pp. 280-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0002
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From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (review)

James Smethurst
pp. 283-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0008
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Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook (review)

David Krasner
pp. 285-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0015
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution, and: Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (review)

Warren J. Carson
pp. 286-289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0022
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Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (review)

Michael LeMahieu
pp. 289-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0029
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Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980, and: Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (review)

Nghana Lewis
pp. 291-295
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0036
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Charles Johnson in Context (review)

Aida Hussen
pp. 295-297
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0000
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself: A New Critical Edition (review)

H. Bruce Franklin
pp. 298-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0006
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Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review)

Eric Gardner
pp. 300-301
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0013
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (review)

Nancy Kang
pp. 301-304
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0020
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Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (review)

Janaka B. Lewis
pp. 305-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0027
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Street Fam (review)

John Edgar Tidwell
pp. 306-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0034
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Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women’s Writings (review)

Justine Tally
pp. 311-313
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0041
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Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic (review)

J. Dillon Brown
pp. 313-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0004
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Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (review)

Shane Vogel
pp. 315-317
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0010
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The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review)

Sika Alaine Dagbovie
pp. 317-319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0017
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Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (review)

Amina Gautier
pp. 319-321
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0024
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Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (review)

Bryan Wagner
pp. 321-322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0031
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The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright (review)

J. Bradford Campbell
pp. 323-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0038
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Contributors

pp. 327-329
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0043
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