The Givens Foundation for African American Literature announces the newest additions to the Givens Collection Classic Book Series: Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins and Darkwater by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Of One Blood (The Givens Collection Classics Series)by Pauline Hopkins
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
"Of One Blood" is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be the most prolific African American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade of the twentieth century. Hopkins tells the story of Reuel Briggs, a medical student who couldn't care less about being black and appreciating African history, but finds himself in Ethiopia on an archeological trip. Along the way he finds much more than he bargained for: the painful truth about blood, race, and the half of his history that was never told. Hopkins wrote the novel intending, in her words, to "raise the stigma of degradation from [the black] race." The title "Of One Blood" refers to the biological kinship of all human beings. The Givens Foundation brings this classic to you with a new introduction by Deborah E. McDowell.
Darkwater (The Givens Collection Classics Series)by W.E.B. Du Bois
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century, published "Darkwater"- a powerful collection of essays, verse and fiction - in 1920, two decades after his most famous book, "The Souls of Black Folk." While much of his early texts were sociological investigations of the black community, the author increasingly incorporated autobiographical, poetic and spiritual elements into his works. The results are some of the most electrifying commentaries ever written on race and class in America. The Givens Foundation brings this classic to you with a new introduction by David Levering Lewis.
My Bondage and My Freedom (The Givens Collection Classics Series)by Frederick Douglass
Washington Square Press Trade Paperback Reissue
Frederick Douglass was born a slave and escaped to freedom in his twenties. MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM (1855) was written after he had established himself as a newspaper editor. In this book, Douglass expands upon his previous account of his years as a slave. With great psychological penetration, he probes the long-term and corrosive effects of slavery and comments upon his active resistance to the segregation he encounters in the North.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (The Givens Collection Classics Series)by Harriet Jacobs
Washington Square Press Trade Paperback Reissue
Harriet Jacobs began suffering physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her master at the age of eleven. In 1842, she fled to the North and joined a circle of abolitionists who worked for Frederick Douglass' newspaper. In 1863, she and her daughter moved to Alexandria, Virginia, where they organized medical care for the Civil War victims and established The Jacobs Free School.
The Conquest: The Story of A Negro Pioneerby Oscar Micheaux
Washington Square Press Trade Paperback Reissue
THE CONQUEST tells the story of the struggles of a black homesteader whose life closely mirrors that of the author. It helped launch Micheaux on his two artistic careers-author and filmmaker. Recently "rediscovered" as an important African American pioneer in Hollywood filmmaking, Micheaux was also a skillful novelist, and this welcome reissue introduces his work to a new generation of readers.
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