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  • BLACK STUDIES, RAP, AND THE ACADEMY
    HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR.
    In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the poli...

    $411.69

  • BLUES, IDEOLOGY, AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERATURE
    HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR.
    Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it. ...

    $590.76

  • MODERNISM AND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
    HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR.
    "Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying m...

    $501.22