African-American literature

at the Equator,” in which homosexuality as taboo in Colombia is the central theme. Racial and class conflicts are explored in Re ...

Like Redmond, Felice Belle narrows the hypocrisy of having a global voice by revealing the absurd sounds of a national voice. By ...

(1976), Clay’s Ark (1984), and Survivor (1978). Kindred (1979) was a departure from the Patter- nist series exploring miscegenat ...

the World, soared through the roof. After being released from prison, Tupac once again made hip-hop history when he released hip ...

86  86 Cain, George (1943– ) Harlem-born George Cain attended public and private schools in New York City. Although he at- ten ...

Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Civitas Books, 2002. ...

prison of [his] own making” (116), George, with the help of Nandy, embarks on the painful, three- day process of detoxification. ...

World Collective, Raymond Sawyer’s Afro-Ameri- can Dance Company, West Coast Dance Works, and her own company, which was then ca ...

Mission Accomplished (1967), Riot Sale, or Dollar Psyche Fake-Out (1968), Top Secret, or A Few Mil- lion After B.C. (1968), The ...

However, in recent years, Shange has aimed her work at the youth of the nation. In 2002 she pub- lished the picture-book biograp ...

literature throughout the United States. With its 1986 move to the University of Virginia, the jour- nal’s breadth again expande ...

who attended several private primary and sec- ondary schools in the Bronx and Manhattan as a gifted student before being sent to ...

Africans and their progeny but also celebrates Af- rican Americans’ history of transcendence. Call and Response comes with an ac ...

Critics generally focus on Shepherd’s “forays into the classical world” (Henry, 59). Title after title confirms this journey: “E ...

Wydell Todd discover that although racism is not as overt in the North as it is in the South, it is vis- ible through the prevai ...

Sherman, Charlotte Watson (1958– ) Novelist, short story writer, and editor Charlotte Watson Sherman was born and raised in Seat ...

of a DuBoisian “double consciousness”—Negro and American—there were those, STANLEY BRAITH- WAITE and FRANK YERBY, for example, w ...

Petty, Jill. “The Human Touch.” Review of Touch. Ms. 6, no. 2 (September 1965): 78–79. Loretta G. Woodard Signifying Monkey, The ...

their symbols that illustrated the most important tenet of the retreat—it was to be a safe haven for black poets. At its onset, ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Badejo, Diedre. Osun Seegesi: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity. Trenton, N.J.: Af- rica World Pre ...