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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)

The Signifying Monkey: Towards A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism
(Oxford University Press, 1988)
Winner of the

Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
(Oxford University Press, 1992)

Colored People: A Memoir
(Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1994)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
(Random House, 1997)

The Future of the Race
with
(Vintage 1997)

Wonders of the African World
(Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1999)

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
(Perseus, 1999)

The African American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century
with
(Perseus, 2000)

America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans
(Warner Books, 2004)

Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own
(Crown, 2007)

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
with
(W. W. Norton , 1996; 2nd. Ed., 2005)







The 2007 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Program is made possible with financial support from the , the , and the .



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