Category Archives: Black Movement Arts Series
The Lakestown Rebellion
Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Jersey, is a black community populated by people from a variety of classes and creeds. When plans for a new highway are routed past a nearby wealthy white suburb but threaten the heart of Lakestown, its citizens are inspired by their Underground Railroad heritage and devise a series of hilarious plans to thwart the construction and to preserve their town and way of life.
The Cotillion
Caught between the indifference of her father, the excitement of her mother, and her prodigal boyfriend’s militancy, Yoruba persuades her sister debutantes to challenge the aging doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.
dem
“One of the outstanding comic novels of the [sixties].” —Boston Globe
“In dem the search for absolutes and the revelation of chaos beneath apparent order give this novel a mythopoetic resonance even as the concrete devices of fabulation and the dialectics of bitter, blue-black satire undermine the mythologies upon which the disintegrating lives of the white central characters depend.” —Johns S. Wright, from the Foreword
Captain Blackman
Named among the most important works of fiction of the decade by when first published in 1972, this is the first book to be published in Coffee House Press’s Black Arts Movement reprint series.
