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Books by Houston Baker
  | | Betrayal(1st Edition) How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era by Houston A. Baker, Houston Baker Jr., Professor Houston Baker Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13964-9, ISBN: 0-231-13964-0 "Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These individuals choose personal gain over the interests of the black majority, whether they are espousing neoconservative positions that distort the contours of contemporary social and political dynamics or abandoning race as an important issue in the study of American literature and culture ..." |
 | | Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy(Updated) (Black Literature and Culture) by Houston A. Baker Paperback, 117 Pages, Published 1995 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03521-5, ISBN: 0-226-03521-2 "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 political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los An ..." |
 | | Long Black Song(1st Edition) Essays in Black American Literature and Culture by Houston A. Baker Paperback, 156 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-1301-8, ISBN: 0-8139-1301-2 "Houston Baker maintains that black American culture, grounded in a unique historical experience, is distinct from any other, and that it has produced a body of literature that is equally and demonstrably unique in its sources, values, and modes of expression. He argues that black American literature is rooted in black folklore- animal tales, trickster slave tales, religious tales, folk songs, spirituals, and ballads- and that a knowledg ..." |
 | | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(1st Edition) Written by Himself by Frederick Douglass, Houston Baker, William Lloyd Garrison, Houston A. Baker, Houston A. Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 1982 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-039012-4, ISBN: 0-14-039012-X "Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to the North in 1838 - how he endured the daily physical and spiritual brutalities of his owners and drivers, how he learned to read and write, and how he grew into a man who could only live free or die. In his introduction, Houston A. Baker, Jr., discusses the ..." |
 | | I Don't Hate the South Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South (Hardback) by Houston A. Baker Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508429-0, ISBN: 0-19-508429-2 "I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom!. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, W ..." |
 | | Turning South Again Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. by Houston A. Baker Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2001 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2695-3, ISBN: 0-8223-2695-7 "In Turning South Again the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker combines historical considerations with p ..." |
 | | Workings of the Spirit The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing (Black Literature and Culture Series) by Elizabeth Alexander, Patricia Redmond, Houston A. Baker Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03522-2, ISBN: 0-226-03522-0 "Two images suggest themselves as illustrations of this trajectory. One is the frontispiece of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (1773). 3 Clad in servant's clothing, the young and distinctively African-featured poet ..." |
 | | Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance(Updated) by Houston A. Baker Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03525-3, ISBN: 0-226-03525-5 ""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 manual.'"--Tonya Bolden, "New York Times Book Review"" |
 | | I Don't Hate the South(1st Edition) Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South by Houston A. Baker Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532655-0, ISBN: 0-19-532655-5 "I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom!. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, W ..." |
 | | Critical Memory(1st Edition) Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America (Georgia Southern University Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Ser.) by Houston A. Baker, Houston Baker Jr. Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2240-7, ISBN: 0-8203-2240-7 "From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges to African American cultural and intellectual life. As Houston A. Baker recalls his own youth in Louisville, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C., he situates such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Shelby Steele, O. J. Simpson, Chris Rock, ..." |
 | | Afro-American Poetics Afro-American Poetics Afro-American Poetics(New edition) Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesth by Baker, Houston A. Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-274-72123-8, ISBN: 0-274-72123-6 "This is also Baker's most personal book, tracing his beginnings as a scholar of Victorian literature, his 'second birth' as he began teaching African American Literature, and his visions and revisions of a black aesthetic." |
 | | The Trouble with Post-Blackness by K. Merinda Simmons, Houston Baker Jr., Houston A. Baker, Eric Hayot, Columbia University Press Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16934-9, ISBN: 0-231-16934-5 "An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced as a leader by all. Yet complicating this vision are shifting demographics, rapid redefinitions of race, and the instant invention of bran ..." |
 | | Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s(1st Edition) (Black Literature and Culture Series) by Houston A. Baker, Patricia Redmond, James Boyd White, Baker Jr. Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03537-6, ISBN: 0-226-03537-9 "Response: Donald B. Gibson I am gratified that Gates, while advancing the cause of the study, teaching, and writing of literature by black authors in his discussion of canon-formation, does not insist on an orthodoxy of critical perspective. The implicit point that he makes when he refers to the diverse "ideological, methodological, and theoretical perspectives" among us is that despite these differences we may move toward a common ..." |
 | | Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature(1st Edition) A Vernacular Theory by Houston A. Baker, Baker Jr. Paperback, 295 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03538-3, ISBN: 0-226-03538-7 "Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker 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. Full description" |
 | | Three American Literatures Essays in Chicano, Native American and Asian American Literature for Teachers of American Literature by Houston A. Baker Paperback, 265 Pages, Published 1982 by Modern Language Assn Of Amer ISBN-13: 978-0-87352-352-3, ISBN: 0-87352-352-0 ""This well-chosen selection contributes to our understanding of the psychological and cultural complexities of these minority groups and helps us, as Baker suggests, 'arrive at a [more] just assessment of the distinctive character of ..." |
 | | Workings of the Spirit(1st Edition) The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing (Black Literature and Culture) by Patricia Redmond, Elizabeth Alexander, Houston A. Baker, Baker Jr. Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03523-9, ISBN: 0-226-03523-9 "Turning on inspired interpretations of Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ntozake Shange, "Workings of the Spirit" weighs current critical approaches to black women's writing against Baker's own explanation of the founding, theoretical state of Afro-American intellectual history. "Brilliant, and tenderly riveted to gratitude as an indispensable facet of analysis, Houston Baker arrives, yet again, bearing the loveliest flowers of his ..." |
 | | Afro-American Poetics Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic by Houston A. Baker Hardcover, 212 Pages, Published 1988 by University Of Wisconsin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-299-11500-5, ISBN: 0-299-11500-3 |
 | | Modernism and the Harlem renaissance by Houston A. Baker Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-03524-6, ISBN: 0-226-03524-7 |
 | | Long black song essays in Black American literature and culture by Houston A. Baker Hardcover, 156 Pages, Published 1973 by University Of Virginia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-0403-0, ISBN: 0-8139-0403-X |
 | | The Trouble with Post-Blackness(Reprint) by K. Merinda Simmons, Houston Baker Jr., Houston A. Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16935-6, ISBN: 0-231-16935-3 "An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced as a leader by all. Yet complicating this vision are shifting demographics, rapid redefinitions of race, and the instant invention of bran ..." |
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