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  1. Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown
  2. Krystyn R. Moon, David Krasner, Thomas L. Riis
  3. pp. 7-24
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0012
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  1. Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes; or, the “Colored Historian’s” Resistance to the Technologies of Power in Postwar America
  2. Carme Manuel
  3. pp. 25-48
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0019
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  1. Invisible Blackness in Edith Wharton’s Old New York
  2. Hildegard Hoeller
  3. pp. 49-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0026
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  1. There is Heterosexuality: Jessie Fauset, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Problem of Desire
  2. Mason Stokes
  3. pp. 67-83
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0033
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  1. Movies, Modernity, and All that Jazz: Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred
  2. Bartholomew Brinkman
  3. pp. 85-96
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0040
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  1. Out of the Black Past: The Image of the Fugitive Slave in Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past
  2. Charles Scruggs
  3. pp. 97-113
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0003
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  1. Circling Meaning in Toni Morrison’s Sula
  2. Claude Pruitt
  3. pp. 115-129
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0009
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  1. “Trying to find a place when the streets don’t go there”: Fatherhood, Family, and American Racial Politics in Toni Morrison’s Love
  2. Mary Paniccia Carden
  3. pp. 131-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0016
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  1. “Belated Impress”: River George and the African American Shell Shock Narrative
  2. Trevor Dodman
  3. pp. 149-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0023
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  1. Duplicities of Power: Amiri Baraka’s and Lorenzo Thomas’s Responses to September 11
  2. John R. O. Gery
  3. pp. 167-180
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0030
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  1. Ailerons & Elevators
  2. Lorenzo Thomas
  3. pp. 181-183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0037
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  1. Ralph Ellison’s Righteous Riffs: Jazz, Democracy, and the Sacred
  2. Steve Pinkerton
  3. pp. 185-206
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0001
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  1. Mary Turner’s Blues
  2. Julie Buckner Armstrong
  3. pp. 207-220
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0007
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  1. No Name in the South: James Baldwin and the Monuments of Identity
  2. Kevin Birmingham
  3. pp. 221-234
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0014
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  1. What Child Is This?: Closely Reading Collectivity and Queer Childrearing in Lackawanna Blues and Noah’s Arc
  2. Vincent Stephens
  3. pp. 235-253
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0021
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  1. My Hand, and: Migration Story, and: Percival Road, and: Communion, and: West 148th St. Canvas, and: What to Say, But
  2. DéLana R. A. Dameron
  3. pp. 255-257
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0028
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  1. Night in Limestone Country
  2. Kwoya Fagin
  3. p. 258
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0035
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  1. 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
  2. Rachel Eliza Griffiths
  3. pp. 259-265
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0042
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  1. When There Is a Birth or Regeneration
  2. Rabiul Hasan
  3. p. 266
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0005
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  1. Harmattan
  2. Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa
  3. pp. 267-268
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0011
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  1. The Virgin in the Yard
  2. Natasha Marin
  3. p. 269
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0018
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  1. My Mother's Hands, and: We Got That Swing
  2. Dennell Reynolds
  3. p. 270
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0025
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  1. The Monarch across the Street
  2. Paul Alan Fahey
  3. pp. 271-278
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0032
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  1. If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality (review)
  2. Katharine Capshaw Smith
  3. pp. 279-280
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0039
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  1. African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (review)
  2. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  3. pp. 280-283
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0002
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  1. From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain (review)
  2. James Smethurst
  3. pp. 283-285
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0008
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  1. Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook (review)
  2. David Krasner
  3. pp. 285-286
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0015
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  1. Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution, and: Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (review)
  2. Warren J. Carson
  3. pp. 286-289
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0022
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  1. Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (review)
  2. Michael LeMahieu
  3. pp. 289-291
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0029
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  1. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980, and: Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law (review)
  2. Nghana Lewis
  3. pp. 291-295
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0036
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  1. Charles Johnson in Context (review)
  2. Aida Hussen
  3. pp. 295-297
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0000
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  1. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself: A New Critical Edition (review)
  2. H. Bruce Franklin
  3. pp. 298-300
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0006
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  1. Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (review)
  2. Eric Gardner
  3. pp. 300-301
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0013
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  1. Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy (review)
  2. Nancy Kang
  3. pp. 301-304
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0020
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  1. Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (review)
  2. Janaka B. Lewis
  3. pp. 305-306
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0027
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  1. Street Fam (review)
  2. John Edgar Tidwell
  3. pp. 306-310
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0034
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  1. Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women’s Writings (review)
  2. Justine Tally
  3. pp. 311-313
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0041
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  1. Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic (review)
  2. J. Dillon Brown
  3. pp. 313-315
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0004
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  1. Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (review)
  2. Shane Vogel
  3. pp. 315-317
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0010
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  1. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review)
  2. Sika Alaine Dagbovie
  3. pp. 317-319
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0017
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  1. Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (review)
  2. Amina Gautier
  3. pp. 319-321
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0024
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  1. Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787–1861: Lifting the Veil of Black (review)
  2. Bryan Wagner
  3. pp. 321-322
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0031
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  1. The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright (review)
  2. J. Bradford Campbell
  3. pp. 323-325
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0038
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  1. Contributors
  3. pp. 327-329
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/afa.2011.0043
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