African-American literature

kindly, Schoolteacher, who replaced Mr. Garner at Sweet Home plantation after Mr. Garner’s death, was determined to emasculate P ...

Jedgement Day is exemplary among Pawley’s one-act plays. Zeke Porter does not share the reli- gious zeal of his wife, Minerva, w ...

Peterson, Louis Stamford, Jr. (1922–1998) A pioneer in the film industry, Louis Peterson was a playwright, screenwriter, actor, ...

Mantle Yearbook. He also received an Emmy nom- ination for Joey (1956) and the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award, as a pioneer ...

Although in the 1950s Petry gained some criti- cal attention, following seminal essays by Afri- can-American feminist critics su ...

who play and control the numbers and who are heroin dealers and addicts trying to kick their habits. In his novels, The Book of ...

O’Brien, John, and Raman K. Singh. “Interview with Robert Deane Pharr.” Negro American Literature Forum 8 (Fall 1974): 244–246. ...

a new African-American voice in gay and lesbian writing. Phillips goes beyond his classical roots to address gender, race, and m ...

Polite, Carlene Hatcher (1932– ) One of the most original and, until recently, least- read major writers of her generation, Carl ...

and inspired a new genre of literature and deter- mined how mainstream America views hip-hop culture. A journalist, poet, hip-ho ...

physically and psychologically abusive marriage, commits adultery and gives birth to Peppy, a love child. Afraid her husband, Wa ...

(Kelley, 37). Chuck D promised to deliver 5,000 new, young black leaders, while calling rap the black CNN. In 1989, at the heigh ...

Charlie’s attitude toward blacks is largely shaped by his relationship with Idella Landy, a house ser- vant who became a surroga ...

422  Q Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) (1970– ) From living in the urban projects to attending the Academy Awards ceremony, Queen L ...

three Grammy Award nominations, with a win for the Best Solo Rap performance for the song, “U.N.I.T.Y.” The song received praise ...

mystical African seeds. DuBois intertextualizes his novel with the familiar western myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece as a ref ...

425  R Rachel Angelina Weld Grimké (1 916 ) ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ’s Rachel was the first full-length drama written in the 20th ...

Although Grimké was not as prolific and visible as some of her contemporaries during the HAR- LEM RENAISSANCE, she, along with M ...

ers of the BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, which are valued by afro-wearing Beneatha, who is interested in ex- ploring her African roots. W ...

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