African-American literature

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

peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0700/072k20htm. Accessed October 18, 2006. McNaron, Toni, and Miller, Carol. “Barbara Neely.” Voices ...

Harris, E. Lynn. Abide with Me. New York: Double- day, 1999. ———. Just as I Am. New York: Doubleday, 1994. Hemphill, Essex. Cere ...

tive American poet, supra-pan-African surrealist, experimental poet, a fine Black poet, and one of the greatest living poets. In ...

over that of the colonial rulers. Specifically, they sought to affirm a more positive use of the term nègre and objected to the ...

it contains a variety of literary elements that are frequently absent from much of the popular lit- erature in contemporary Amer ...

(including American literature) must be consid- ered as significant, not only because of the body of established masterpieces, b ...

of Porgy and Bess, joined the Harlem Writers Guild in 1959, worked as the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leader ...

critics agree it is a work of immense social impor- tance on an issue that can no longer be ignored. In the 12 essays, the contr ...

establishment seems confused as to how to evalu- ate this literary phenomenon and its popularity. Taken together, the six volume ...

(Locke changed the title to “White Houses” in order not to offend his audience) to the more cel- ebratory “The Negro Speaks of R ...

Studies at Wake Forest University (1981); inau- gural poet for President Bill Clinton (1993); the United States of America, Cong ...

and kiss me on my lips and then on my neck” [25]) begins ushering her from the self-created safety of childhood (she hid her fav ...

exclaims, “Sometimes I hate Niggers” (26). Snob- bish Mrs. Albright and her daughter, Hester, decry the African art Mary is tryi ...

Baldwin exposes the characters’ inability to connect with one another and links these fail- ings to the inability of multiple ra ...

A year after arriving in New York City, he discov- ered Harlem. When Nugent told his mother he had decided to become a writer, s ...

Nellie, a tea to protect Lena from being plagued by her gift. However, dismissing the belief as mere superstition, Nellie discar ...

literature. This anthology contains works by 29 black writers and critics, including PAULE MAR- SHALL, AMIRI BARAKA, JOHN A. WIL ...

His parents, William and Florence Attaway, both professional people, a doctor and teacher, re- spectively, relocated to Chicago ...

399  O Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life Begun January 1923 as the official organ of the National Urban League, the journal ...