African American romance

Islam

Muslim romance

Abdullah-Poulos, Layla (2018) The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

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Islam

marriage

Muslim romance

Alexander, Camille S. (2022) " “The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 121-135

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Jasmine Guillory

rom-com romance

ageism

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca Donnelly, Kristen (2021) " Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

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Christian romance

Grace Livingston Hill

Janette Oke

Francine Rivers

Angela Benson

Philippines

Belk, Jaime (2022) Save Our Love Creative Writing Masters Thesis, Liberty University

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Christian romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

happy ending

Bell, Carole V. (2022) " I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

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Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee McCleer, Adriana (2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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libraries/librarians

Blanding, Cristen (2005) Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference MA thesis, Bowling Green State University

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Brown, Fahamisha Patricia (2008) Anita Richmond Bunkley Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-5

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Brown, Fahamisha Patricia (2008) Beverly Jenkins Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-6

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romantic suspense

Brunet, Peyton Davis, Blair (2022) Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age Austin: University of Texas Press

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comics/manga

Burley, Stephanie Carol (2003) Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance PhD, University of Maryland, College Park

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B. J. James

Native American romance

Dara Joy

science fiction/futuristic romance

Glover, Thomasine Hearvey, Crystal Monay McCoy, Shuntay Curtright, Lauren (2000) Anita Richmond Bunkley Voices from the Gaps :

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Dandridge, Rita B. (2003) " African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 42-56

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Dandridge, Rita B. (2003) " The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

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Dandridge, Rita B. (2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang

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Dandridge, Rita B. (2010) The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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Dandridge, Rita B. (2022) Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Amii Lorin

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

disability

Harlequin Mills & Boon

ageism

authors

Brunet, Peyton Davis, Blair (2022) Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age Austin: University of Texas Press

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comics/manga

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca Donnelly, Kristen (2021) " Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

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Christian romance

Grace Livingston Hill

Janette Oke

Francine Rivers

Angela Benson

Philippines

Drew, Bernard A. (2007) 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Edmondson, Belinda (2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Frances Watkins Harper

Ficke, Sarah H. (2021) " The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

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Foster, Guy Mark (2007) " How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

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rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Gallon, Kim (2013) “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American Journalism History 39.2:104-114

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romances in magazines and newspapers

Glover, Thomasine Hearvey, Crystal Monay McCoy, Shuntay Curtright, Lauren (2000) Anita Richmond Bunkley Voices from the Gaps :

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Glover, Thomasine Hearvey, Crystal Monay McCoy, Shuntay Curtright, Lauren (2000) Anita Richmond Bunkley Voices from the Gaps :

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romances in magazines and newspapers

Hefner, Brooks E. (2021) Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

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Gertrude Schalk

Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna (2020) Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture : University of North Carolina Press

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marriage

Hendricks, Margo (2022) Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Hendricks, Margo (2022) " How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

teaching romance

Hendricks, Margo Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

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Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Huguley, Piper (2022) Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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police officers/police forces

Jackson, Nicole M. (2022) " Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 65-77

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Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Alyssa Cole

Ann Allen Shockley

Jackson, Nicole M. (2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

happy ending

Jenkins, Beverly (2022) " A Short History of African American Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 1-15

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Frances Watkins Harper

romances in magazines and newspapers

Markert, John (2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee McCleer, Adriana (2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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libraries/librarians

Glover, Thomasine Hearvey, Crystal Monay McCoy, Shuntay Curtright, Lauren (2000) Anita Richmond Bunkley Voices from the Gaps :

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McDade, Monique (2023) California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

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Eva Rutland

Michelson, Anna (2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

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genre definitions

sociology

authors

Native American romance

Modleski, Tania (1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

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rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

feminism

Brenda Joyce

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2016) " Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127

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health/medical

Brenda Jackson

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2021) " African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Alyssa Cole

Hendricks, Margo Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

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Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

feminism

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2003) " In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2004) " "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

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Parnell, Claire (2021) Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research :

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authors

Pritchard, Jamee N. (2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Pritchard, Jamee Nicole (2021) That 90's Kind of Love: the Rise of African American Romance Novels in Traditional Romance Publishing Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

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Pryde, Jessica P. (2022) Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After New York: Berkley

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