African-American literature

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE  Wilfred Samuels Associate Editors Loretta Gilchrist Woodard Tracie Church Guzzio ...

Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Copyright © 2007 by Wilfred Samuels All rights reserved. No part of this book may be ...

Table of ConTenTs Introduction iv Acknowledgments x A to Z Entries 1 Bibliography of Secondary Sources 581 Ma ...

iv  INTRODUCTION We have always been imagining ourselves... we are the subjects of our own narratives, witnesses to and partic ...

Introduction v her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), the first known collection of poems to be published by ...

vi Encyclopedia of African-American Literature inherent in segregationist Jim Crow laws. Black writers, particularly Richard Wri ...

Introduction vii have embraced “assimilationism.” He writes, “It is true that some of the writers in the twenties and thirties, ...

viii Encyclopedia of African-American Literature Moreover, DuBois would find the now-undeni- able progress and contributions mad ...

Introduction ix Nikki Giovanni, and Kevin Young. Ultimately, what attracts us to hip-hop culture and rap is the seeming continui ...

x  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS When I began this project, family members, friends, and colleagues lauded me for taking on such a monumenta ...

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3 Aasim, Afrika Bambaataa (1960– ) Often called the “Godfather of Hip-Hop,” Afrika Bambaataa Aasim, familiarly known as Bam, was ...

4 sociopolitical voices over the beat of the music they were playing. Writing was used to express some political or ideological ...

Adams received critical acclaim with the pub- lication of her first novel, Resurrecting Mingus (2001), which tells the story of ...

understanding this collection. Issues of race and sexual orientation inform the selections as they do life—unexpectedly but ofte ...

incorporate African-American expressive culture generally. Out of this change came special issues on black music, jazz, the blac ...

Book Award. Currently a professor at Oklahoma State University, where she is researching the his- tory of her relatives, members ...

The B-Boy Blues series is distinguished by the writing style Hardy uses, incorporating an abun- dance of slang, specifically hip ...