African-American literature

became major poets of a new generation. Under Randall’s leadership, Broadside Press, in its glory days from 1965 to 1976, publis ...

wanted the black artist to “Clean out the world for virtue and love.” Neal further explained, “The Black Arts Movement is radica ...

To that end, Reading Black, Reading Feminist rep- resents what Gates calls “an embracive politics of inclusion” that characteriz ...

a memorial to MARGARET WALKER ALEXANDER (1915–1998); an interview with CHARLES JOHN- SON, the author of MIDDLE PASSAGE, “The Pol ...

1975, before becoming professor emeritus, 1975 to 1988. Redding was also a visiting professor at Brown University, 1949 to 1950, ...

fund-raising organ that would finance the trans- portation of people back to Africa and establish colonies and Christian mission ...

caricatures of organizations, such as the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, the Ku Klux Klan, and the ...

Turner, Darwin. “Afro-American Literary Critics: An Introduction.” In The Black Aesthetic, edited by Addison Gayle, Jr., 57–74. ...

interests in common and whites were unable to speak for blacks. King recalled that shortly after Carmichael’s re- lease from jai ...

(2003). In 1986, Redmond cofounded the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club, which is based in East St. Louis. For nearly two decades, ...

Hamilton said that as civil unrest began to flare in Detroit, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, Carmichael’s words eventually be ...

him best. An outspoken advocate of individual- ity and iconoclasm, he is also, perhaps somewhat paradoxically, deeply devoted to ...

volume.” Johnson further explained, “Negro Di- gest is dedicated to the development of interracial understanding and promotion o ...

like American culture, is a composite of multiple voices and traditions. Whites and blacks alike are interested in stealing or d ...

1961–1976. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Wilfred D. Samuels Black Writers of America: A Comprehen- sive Anthology Rich ...

Bruck and Wolfgang Karrer, 167–189. Amster- dam: Gruner, 1982. Fox, Robert Elliot. Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodern ...

the more than six decades since it appeared, one of the most widely read and influential works of African-American cultural crit ...

Douglass’ Women fills the many gaps and silences that history has left unchanged or unchallenged. Rhodes, who had difficulty get ...

dustry, but styles from all of these periods are still performed. Each of these periods in blues development continues to influe ...

Tongues Untied, on the other hand, generated con- troversy about public funding for the arts. Riggs, a recipient of a number of ...