African-American literature

at age 16. His rapid descent into the moral abyss of Harlem’s underworld was countered only by the notoriety he gained as one of ...

support of the OAAU’s effort to have the United States of America brought before the United Na- tions on charges of violating th ...

rested on the seventh day and accordingly re- named her family Day. However, despite such gifts of freedom and African conjure p ...

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot (1882). Mammy is always ready and willing to help her white folks. She is Mark Twain’s “nigger woman” in ...

migrating black southerners, like Sonny’s grand- parents, during the periods after World War I and the Great Depression. Brown l ...

Marrow of Tradition, The Charles W. Chesnutt (1901) The Marrow of Tradition is one of CHARLES W. CHESNUTT’s most controversial b ...

Roe, Jae H. “Keeping an ‘Old Wound’ Alive: The Mar- row of Tradition and the Legacy of Wilmington.” African American Review 33, ...

migrant communities, the African diaspora, and black women’s experience. Marshall interrogates the past as a vital step toward c ...

American sensibility that has helped create a re- ceptive readership for more recent writers. In Praisesong for the Widow (1983) ...

States and abroad, including Yale, Columbia, Cor- nell, Oxford, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of California a ...

realizes she does not fit the prevailing definition o f “ p r e t t y.” The remaining vignettes take us through Maud’s somewhat ...

turning home in 1966, he appeared in his cowrit- ten film Up Tight (1968), which starred Raymond St. Jacques. He served as a gov ...

parents moved from Florida to Cavalier Manor, an African-American middle-class neighborhood in Portsmouth, Virginia. This was th ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Cauchon, Dennis. “On the Streets and in School: Two Views of Growing Up Black.” USA Today, 10 March 1994, p. 6D. Ga ...

central character, it also focuses on an urban teen who must face and overcome major obstacles in his lives. Brother Hood captur ...

director of speech and hearing services at Western Washington State University (WWS), Bellingham. Seduced by academic life, she ...

by the River,” for example, portrays Cressy Pruit, who is raped by Sam Packer, one of Jesse James’s henchmen; unable to negotiat ...

and unintentionally) over its content, it has man- aged to weather the storm and stay in print with outstanding success. McGrude ...

Though far outnumbered let us show us brace. And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the ope ...

Frank Norris, Home to Harlem gives insights into the self-affirming lives of working-class blacks who inhabit a modern world in ...