African-American literature
when two girls are left on their doorstep. When urban progress threatens to destroy their neigh- borhood, Noon comes to grips wi ...
bold, not flamboyant. They learned how to exploit the language so that readers would be affected by what they said and how they ...
novel and the subsequent film, directed by For- est Whitaker and starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett, denigrated black m ...
Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile (2000). In them McPherson focuses on the connection between geography and identity, the ...
radicals in America. This classification led the postmaster general to ban The Messenger. Signifi- cantly, however, the coeditor ...
with Micheaux to adapt The Homesteader into a film. Unable to reach an agreement on Micheaux’s desire to direct the film, Michea ...
Middle Passage Charles Johnson (1990) Middle Passage is, among other things, a burlesque and a rich parody of African-American f ...
about Charles Johnson, edited by Rudolph Byrd, 225–243. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. O’Keefe, Vincent A. “Readin ...
has traveled to Nicaragua, as well as to Yemen, the Soviet Union, England, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. By drawing on intern ...
Butler and Kelly Miller, a distinguished profes- sor of sociology at Howard University. Professor Miller counted among his frien ...
work of Archibald MacLeish and the Chicago Im- agists, frequently engage in significant spiritual and ethical questions. “Late C ...
pelling dramatist as well as a forceful spokesman on behalf of the aesthetic and economic inde- pendence of the black playwright ...
Writers, edited by Thadious Davis and Trudier Harris, 201–207. Detroit: Gale, 1985. King, Jr., Woodie. “Directing Winesellers.” ...
(1960), I’m Sorry (1962), and The Vampires of Har- lem (1972). His books include Black Drama: The Story of the American Negro in ...
National Council for the Social Studies, the No- table Children’s Book citation from the American Library Association, and the “ ...
sippi, was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Till’s murder symbolized to her the mean sickness, the cancer ravishing the body of ...
by the news of the assassination of President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963. For Moody and millions of black Americans, Kenn ...
friends, Sula Peace and Nel Wright. Growing up in the African-American section of a southern Ohio town, their intimate friendshi ...
difficulties and the possibilities of finding vi- able identities and meaningful living spaces. That means coming to terms with ...
unique flow, his range of subject matter, and, most notably, his willingness to address key social, po- litical, and economic ch ...
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