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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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    Save the Date for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 90th Anniversary Weekend

    June 16, 2025

    Mark your calendars for a distinguished weekend of literature and camaraderie in celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Anisfield-Wolf…

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    Kortney Morrow

    May 28, 2025

    Kortney Morrow is a poet, arts advocate, and organizational strategist with over ten years of experience advocating for literacy and…

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    The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery

    Jonathan D. S. Schroeder

    A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John…

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    Colored Television

    Danzy Senna

    A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.   Jane has high hopes her life…

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    Feeding Ghosts

    Tessa Hulls

    In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in…

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    Yusef Komunyakaa

    The winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to one of the most prolific poets of the 21st century,…

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    2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Announced, Celebrating 90 Years of Literary Excellence 

    April 10, 2025

    CLEVELAND — Four groundbreaking works have been named winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the nation’s only endowed juried…

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    2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 19, 2025, 6:30 pm

    Join us to celebrate the winners of the 90th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will also…

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    Yard Show

    Janice N. Harrington

    Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans…

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    Spring Discussion Series – Brothers & Keepers

    May 21, 2025, 4:00 pm

    The Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College, Case Western Reserve University, and Anisfield-Wolf Book…

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    Spring Discussion Series – Paula

    April 16, 2025, 4:00 pm

    The Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College, Case Western Reserve University, and Anisfield-Wolf Book…

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    Spring Discussion Series – Memorial Drive

    March 19, 2025, 4:00 pm

    The Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College, Case Western Reserve University, and Anisfield-Wolf Book…

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    Cleveland Foundation Celebrates 90 Years of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards with 2025 Finalists

    March 10, 2025

    CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation announced 10 finalists for the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), marking 90 years of honoring…

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    CANCELLED: 2025 Winners Announcement Event with Kaveh Akbar & Hanif Abdurraqib

    April 10, 2025, 7:30 pm

    EVENT UPDATE: We regret to inform you that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the event with Kaveh Akbar and Hanif Abdurraqib on Thursday,…

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    Xan Forest Phillips

    January 16, 2025

    Xan Forest Phillips, a poet hailing from rural Ohio, is the acclaimed author of Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019) and a recipient of…

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    Jamie Hickner, Ph.D

    January 16, 2025

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