Look for these two features after the residency:

Publications In chronological order Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self (Oxford University Press, 1987) Purchase at Amazon.com The Signifying Monkey: Towards A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism (Oxford University Press, 1988) Winner of the American Book Award Purchase at Amazon.com Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars (Oxford University Press, 1992) Purchase at Amazon.com Colored People: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1994) Purchase at Amazon.com Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (Random House, 1997) Purchase at Amazon.com The Future of the Race with Cornel West (Vintage 1997) Purchase at Amazon.com Wonders of the African World (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999) Purchase at Amazon.com Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (Perseus, 1999) Purchase at Amazon.com The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century with Cornel West (Perseus, 2000) Purchase at Amazon.com America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (Warner Books, 2004) Purchase at Amazon.com Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own (Crown, 2007) Purchase at Amazon.com The Norton Anthology of African American Literature with Nellie Y. McKay (W. W. Norton , 1996; 2nd. Ed., 2005) Purchase at Amazon.com The 2007 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Program is made possible with financial support from the West Virginia Humanities Council, the West Virginia Center for the Book, and the Shepherd University Foundation.

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