Ishmael Reed

Barack Obama and the "Nigger Breakers" (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9780981240572

The Torment of Barack Obama Under slavery, "Nigger breakers" had the job of destroying the spirits of tough black men by whatever means necessary...more details
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Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9780981240596

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Bigger Than Boxing: Muhammad Ali (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781400054145

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Blues City (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781400045402

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Flight to Canada (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9780684847504

Brilliantly portrayed by a novelist with "a talent for hyperbole and downright yarning unequaled since Mark Twain", (Saturday Review), this slave's-eye view of the Civil War exposes America's racial foibles of the past and present with uninhibited humor and panache.

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Ishmael Reed: The Plays (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564785510

Ishmael Reed's career as one of our great playwrights has long been eclipsed by his other work. Here published for the first time, Reed's plays follow the ancient tradition of using the theater as a forum in which the official versions of our history can be critiqued. Dealing with subjects that mainstream theatergoers might find disturbing-homelessness...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:398

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Japanese by Spring (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9780140255850

Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts after tenure and its glorious perks (including a house in the Oakland Hills). He spends most of his time trying to divine the ideological climate of the school and obligingly adapting his beliefs to it. When Puttbutt's mysterious Japanese tutor...more details
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Juice! (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564786371

In 2010, the Newseum in Washington D.C. finally obtained the suit O. J. Simpson wore in court the day he was acquitted, and it now stands as both an artifactin their Trial of the Century exhibit and a symbol of the American media s endless hunger for the criminal and the celebrity. This event serves as a launching point for Ishmael Reed s Juice ...more details
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Juice (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564786470

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Mumbo Jumbo (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9780684824772

The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages

"Mumbo Jumbo" is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization...more details
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Oakland Rhapsody (Trade)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781556431968

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Reckless Eyeballing (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564782373

-- All around New York the "Flower Phantom" has been assaulting prominent feminists, tying them up and shaving their heads, and no one knows who the menace could be. Meanwhile...more details
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The Free-Lance Pallbearers (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564782250

The electrifying and controversial first novel from the author since dubbed "the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain" (Nation). Upon its original publication...more details
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The Last Days of Louisiana Red (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564782366

-- When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday hoodoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings...more details
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The Terrible Threes (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564782243

A blend of science fiction, folklore, history, fantasy, social satire, and all-out surrealist comedy, this novel picks up where The Terrible Twos left off...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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The Terrible Twos (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564782267

Reed creates a wickedly funny social critique of everything American -- from commercialism to Congress to religious cults by merging influences from Rastafarian mythology with Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (Book)

Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781564782380

-- Reed's hoodoo Western weaves together different folklores and collapses time to present his satiric take on the myths of the Old West, the power of media...more details
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Jitney: 1977 (Book)

August Wilson;Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781559363044

Urban renewal threatens the dingy office of Becker's gypsy cab company, just as his estranged son returns....more details
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Oakland Rhapsody: The Secret Soul of an American Downtown (Book)

Ishmael Reed;Richard Nagler RichardNagler

ISBN:9781556431975

"Oakland Rhapsody" unites the talents of Richard Nagler, an award-winning photographer, and Ishmael Reed, a respected American novelist, essayist...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:112

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POW-Wow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now (Book)

Ishmael Reed;Carla Blank

ISBN:9781568583426

Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed--with the assistance of Carla Blank--has assembled an anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience...more details
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The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 (Book)

Ishmael Reed;Kate Wong ShawnTrueblood

ISBN:9780393308327

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The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 (Book)

Ishmael Reed;J J Strads GundarPhillips

ISBN:9780393308334

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The Wig (Book)

Charles Wright;Ishmael Reed

ISBN:9781562791278

Mercury House is proud to launch the NEA Heritage & Preservation Series, which celebrates the multicultural diversity of American letters by restoring to print unduly neglected modern classics of cultural identity. Our second title for this series...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

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Pow-Wow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now (Book)

Carla Blank;Carla Reed IshmaelBlank

ISBN:9781568583402

Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed--with the assistance of Carla Blank--has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:503

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