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Betrayal: how black intellectuals have abandoned the ideals of the civil rights era. by Baker, Houston A, Baker, Houston A

“…Houston A. Baker Jr. condemns those black intellectuals who, he believes, have turned their backs on the tradition of racial activism in America. These…”
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The trouble with post-Blackness by Baker, Houston A, Simmons, K. Merinda

“…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…”
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Architectures of Imagination by Baker, Houston A

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The Urge to Adorn: Generational Wit and the Birth of "The Signifying Monkey" by BAKER, HOUSTON A.

“…Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth, the whispered words of a black mother to her black daughter on the ways of men, the…”
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ARCHITECTURES OF IMAGINATION by Baker, Houston A., Jr

“…Houston Baker's memorial meditates on the place and significance of Stuart Hall in the liberatory project of black British cultural studies and the…”
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Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian-American Literature for Teachers of American Literature by Baker, Houston A., Jr., Ed

“…Intended for use by American literature teachers who wish to use a single-volume work offering overviews of the literary traditions of selected minority…”
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The Black Bottom Line: Reflections on Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, and White Male Violence in America by Baker, Houston A.

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BALANCING THE PERSPECTIVE, A LOOK AT EARLY BLACK AMERICAN LITERARY ARTISTRY by Baker, Houston A.

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Intuiting Archive: Notes for a Post-Trauma Poetics by Baker, Houston A.

“…Always a term sonorous in its pr`onouncement and import, “archive” assumed even greater cache in its articulation by Derrida. Conservationist resonances of the…”
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Preface: Violence, the Body and 'The South' by Jr, Houston A. Baker, Nelson, Dana D

“…Baker and Nelson discuss their efforts to establish a project to contribute to a new Southern studies, an emerging collective already producing a robust body…”
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The point of entanglement: modernism, Diaspora, and Toni Morrison's Love by Baker, Houston A.

“…Black Diaspora Studies constitute an indispensable analytical discourse for black expressivity. Ignoring such studies, mainstream, journalistic criticism of a…”
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New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement by Collins, Lisa Gail, Crawford, Margo Natalie, Nelson, Alondra, Jones, Kellie, Smethurst, James, Walters, Wendy, Pollard, Cherise, Duganne, Erina, Smith, Cherise, Gussow, Adam

“…During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African…”
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Meditation on Tuskegee: Black Studies Stories and Their Imbrication by Baker, Houston A.

“…Discusses today's black studies programs and the division between the empiricist and conceptualist views of black history. Through a personal narrative…”
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1992: Local Pedagogy; Or, How I Redeemed My Spring Semester by Baker, Houston A.

“…Houston A. Baker Jr's 1992 presidential address to the Modern Language Association of America is offered…”
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African American Review at 40: A Retrospective by Weixlmann, Joe, Baker, Houston A., Andrews, William L., Harris, Trudier, Davis, Thadious, Ward, Jerry W.

“…By contrast, 14 scholars, including Brooks, Burke, and Nilon, committed in the fall of 1976 both to serving as readers of submitted manuscripts and to offering…”
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Anniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 75 by Baker, Houston A., Wald, Priscilla

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Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes by Baker, Houston A

“…When we issued a call for contributions to a collection of original essays addressing post-Blackness, my colleague, Professor Merinda Simmons, and I were equal…”
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The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance by Baker, Houston A.

“…Baker reviews The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance by Shane Vogel…”
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THE REVIEW OF POLITICS by Baker, Houston A

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Erica R. Edwards: Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Pp. xxii, 249.) by Baker, Houston A.

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