African-American literature

Coltrane, STERLING BROWN, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., and MALCOLM X, as central to her agenda of black survival. Sanchez has receiv ...

whom she supports, Willa Mae follows up by dis- carding her daughter’s few belongings, clinically cleaning her bedroom, painting ...

characterized his role in the HARLEM RENAISSANCE, his fiction, and his five decades as a journalist. Born in Providence, Rhode I ...

writers such as RALPH ELLISON, ED BULLINS, and ISHMAEL REED. Schuyler’s second novel appeared in the same year as Black No More. ...

Scott-Heron’s experience at Lincoln University would also lay the groundwork for the depiction of a troubled black college that ...

the group The Last Poet, is recognized as having set the stage for the emergence of contemporary rap, especially in its earlier ...

by the ghost of her dead child, who returns as a living person seeking retribution for Sethe’s hei- nous crime. Sethe, the child ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

was an early talk-radio host (1978–1984), first on Pacifica’s WBAI-FM and then winning numerous awards for The Judy Simmons Show ...

mains uncertain about her possible sexual orien- tation and identity, responds, “Carla, if you can’t accept me for who I am, no ...

Dedicated to his mother, Slade’s “Black Ma- donna” combines the various themes found in his poems: deep love for his humble but ...