African-American literature

big basket” on her head. “She swings it moughty easy, / An’ ’pears to me at such times / It ain’t no awful load.” However, he al ...

appear in the work rather than creating or imaging a world to fit into some abstract theory only a few can decipher. In a career ...

all humankind, those who had come to hear Ma Rainey sing “natchally bowed dey heads an’ cried” as they return to their river set ...

Rock, Arkansas, but they needed the support- ive presence of more than 1,000 troops from the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. ...

(70–71). In the end, the agrarian Hamiltons are corrupted by city life and, eventually, morally de- stroyed. Joe becomes a drunk ...

Prophets for a New Day (1970) focuses on histori- cal events from this movement. BIBLIOGRAPHY King, Martin L., Jr. I Have A Drea ...

calls” (28). When Joe confronts Spunk in an effort to defend his honor and masculinity, Spunk shoots and kills him. Spunk, who i ...

Cleage’s first novel, What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1998), is centered on the odyssey of a woman who is diagnosed wi ...

the International Dyslexia Association awarded Staples the Priscilla Vail Award (2004). Before Staples wrote his autobiography, ...

decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing segregation, Cleaver’s imprisonment, he argues in Soul, awakened him to his “ ...

tal in Brooklyn, New York. He was the oldest of four children, having two brothers, Freddie and Charles, and one sister, Marcia. ...

voraciously, and Lucille’s mother wrote poetry in iambic pentameter. Although it was very different from the sort of verse Clift ...

York Times Outstanding Book award (1971), the National Council for the Social Studies/Children’s Book Council, Joint Committee, ...

Though her books have earned her the National Book Award for Poetry in 2000 and an appoint- ment to the previously all-white boa ...

haps the best novel to come from the followers of Wright” (193). Like Wright’s infamous protagonist, Bigger Thomas, Lutie Johnso ...

exchange clandestine feels / in dark hallways... / young black bodies humped hard.” Ironically, she is unable to participate in ...

During her manumission from slavery on Sweet Home plantation, Baby Suggs learns that her bill of sale bears the name “Jenny Whit ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Karenga, Maulana. Kawaida Theory: An Introductory Outline. Inglewood, Calif.: Kawaida Publications, 1980. Koolish, ...

white farmer, who bargained with his slaves to give them their freedom and a piece of rich and fertile bottom land after they pe ...

physical transformation from slavery to freedom. After her mother dies, Celie’s stepfather arranges her marriage to a much older ...