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    Evangelist of Race

    Geoffrey G. Field

    Field has made a contribution to the discussion among historians of Germany whether German society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was an exception in Europe, or whether racialism, anti-Semitism, and all the excesses of ultra-nationalism were endemic in the whole of European society in the age of imperialism.

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    Black Metropolis

    St. Clair Drake

    Drake and Cayton’s findings not only offer a generalized analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the early part of the twentieth century, but also tell us what has changed in the last hundred years and what has not.

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    Dust Tracks on a Road

    Zora Neale Hurston

    Hurston considered her own blackness a gift and an opportunity. As an anthropologist and writer, she savored the richness of black culture and made a career out of writing about that culture in all its color and fullness.

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    July 27, 2011

    Book Submissions For information related to submitting a book for consideration please visit Submission Guidelines or email us at Submit@Anisfield-Wolf.org….

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    September 24, 2024

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    Cleveland Book Week Kicks Off, Anchored by Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Author Symposium on Sept. 28

    September 17, 2024

    CLEVELAND – Cleveland Book Week is underway, with a full schedule of far-ranging programs that are nearly all free to…

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    Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Announce Updates for 2025 Award Year

    September 11, 2024

    Book prize welcomes new jurors and new category; sets October 16 deadline for submissions Cleveland, OH – The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…

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    #CLEreads Young Adult Book Festival

    October 1, 2024, 9:00 am

    The #CLEReads YA Book Festival celebrates stories encouraging young readers to find their voices and advocate for personal and community…

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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Virtual Events

    September 16 – September 18, 2024

    Inkubator 2024 kicks off September 16-18 with three virtual panels featuring Hanif Abdurraqib and Christina Sharpe on attention and accumulation…

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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Community Events

    September 14 – September 15, 2024

    Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Writing Conference is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country, providing workshops, craft talks,…

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    Jamie Hickner

    September 9, 2024

    Jamie Hickner has a Ph.D in American Studies and teaches in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University as…

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    When Artists Go to Work: The 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Author Symposium

    September 28, 2024, 11:00 am

    “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No…

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    2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 27, 2024, 6:30 pm

    Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remain the only American book prize focusing on works that address…

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    89th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

    August 20, 2024

    Join us for the 89th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), honoring our 2024 winners: Ned Blackhawk, Teju Cole, Monica Youn…

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    Kevin Quinn

    August 19, 2024

    Kevin Quinn is a teacher, writer and critic. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University with a…

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    Philip Metres

    August 19, 2024

    Philip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge…

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    From From

    Monica Youn

    “From From” is a brilliant collection of poems lush with detail in its meditations on myth, history, popular culture, and…

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    Tremor

    Teju Cole

    “Tremor,” a sinuous meditation on art and life, at once elegant and steely, tells the story of Tunde, an academic…

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    The Rediscovery of America

    Ned Blackhawk

    “The Rediscovery of America” offers a sweeping yet fine-grained history of Indigenous peoples on the lands and waters that now make…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Some of the most storied, and studied, lines of 20th-century American literature landed in 1976. They came from a math…