African-American literature
the Black Arts Movement to African-American literature, particularly within certain quarters of the academy, it was truly the mo ...
Throughout Black Boy, Wright uses whiteness, like the threatening white bags that hover above the child’s head, as a metaphor fo ...
wanted the black artist to “Clean out the world for virtue and love.” Neal further explained, “The Black Arts Movement is radica ...
a memorial to MARGARET WALKER ALEXANDER (1915–1998); an interview with CHARLES JOHN- SON, the author of MIDDLE PASSAGE, “The Pol ...
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 ...
interests in common and whites were unable to speak for blacks. King recalled that shortly after Carmichael’s re- lease from jai ...
Hamilton said that as civil unrest began to flare in Detroit, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, Carmichael’s words eventually be ...
volume.” Johnson further explained, “Negro Di- gest is dedicated to the development of interracial understanding and promotion o ...
1961–1976. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Wilfred D. Samuels Black Writers of America: A Comprehen- sive Anthology Rich ...
the more than six decades since it appeared, one of the most widely read and influential works of African-American cultural crit ...
dustry, but styles from all of these periods are still performed. Each of these periods in blues development continues to influe ...
movement, to the collection of poetry titled Blues Narrative (1999) by STERLING PLUMPP, a native of Mississippi (considered to b ...
ously named Chelsea as he attempts and often fails to relate to the white members of his family; his various white friends and l ...
Bonner, Marita Odette (1899–1971) Playwright, short story writer, and essayist, Marita Bonner was one of the most interesting, v ...
After Bonner married accountant William Almy Occomy, a Rhode Island native and Brown University graduate, she moved to Chicago i ...
the historically black college established by the Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama, where he had a heavy teaching load. B ...
doctoral degree; the first was awarded by Morgan State University. Bontemps died on June 4, 1973; his funeral was held in the Fi ...
grittiness, the anonymity, and the visual and aural noise of this environment find their way into her poems as monumental icons; ...
business owner, and Shirley Hayes, a federal gov- ernment employee. A 1992 graduate of Harvard Law School, Boykin served two yea ...
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