African-American literature

religion as an opiate or false source of empower- ment, reveals not only the often autobiographical emphasis in his work but, pe ...

together. Celebrating their 50th anniversary and decades in entertainment and politics, they coau- thored a joint memoir titled ...

The injury led to Troupe’s discovery and love of writing. Troupe is married to Margaret Porter, has four children—Antoinette, Ty ...

With a bounty of awards and honors for his writing, acting, and activism, Davis, along with wife Ruby Dee, won the Presidential ...

conjures a “magic” Johnson who achieves at a sin- gular level, but the narrator is also aware that the famous basketball player’ ...

science fiction, the neo–slave narrative Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand. Transgressive themes have characterized Dela- n ...

legally free. After hearing “voices” that proclaimed she would become an “instrument of God,” she changed her name to Sojourner ...

friends; however, when he is challenged to choose between them, he chooses the gang. The novel ends when Johnny kills Trapp, who ...

Turner, Darwin T. (1931–1989) An educator, humanitarian, literary scholar, editor, and critic, Darwin T. Turner was born in Cinc ...

Services (formerly the Minority Scholars Program) for its youngest graduate ever. It remains one of the oldest ethnic scholarshi ...

While Derricotte explores the universal fear of death in The Empress of the Death House, she also uses as central themes exclusi ...

the first blow towards the execution” (Barksdale, 164). Gray, who Andrews tells us “takes control of the narrative from the outs ...

class), the history of black women and white women is reinscribed. Without sentimentalizing or denying, Williams also reinscribe ...

both inter- and intra-familial dynamics, life during and in the aftermath of the Great Migration and the Great Depression, and r ...

rity of his house, but after a confrontation with his foreman, Easy loses his job. With the help of his friend Joppy, Easy gets ...

by her hardworking parents. Found attractive, fa- vored and doted on by family and friends primar- ily because of her light skin ...

Mexicans and black people started hating each other. Back then... a Mexican and a negro [sic] considered themselves the same... ...

516  U Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington (1901) BOOKER T. WASHINGTON’s autobiography, Up from Slavery, records one of the m ...

Different Drummer, A William Melvin Kelley (1959) The unconventional approach of WILLIAM MEL- VIN KELLEY’s first novel, A Differ ...

were greater for the master. On the whole, Wash- ington wrote, slaves were devoted to their masters. He overlooked, for example, ...