African-American literature
Though her books have earned her the National Book Award for Poetry in 2000 and an appoint- ment to the previously all-white boa ...
exchange clandestine feels / in dark hallways... / young black bodies humped hard.” Ironically, she is unable to participate in ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY Karenga, Maulana. Kawaida Theory: An Introductory Outline. Inglewood, Calif.: Kawaida Publications, 1980. Koolish, ...
physical transformation from slavery to freedom. After her mother dies, Celie’s stepfather arranges her marriage to a much older ...
(1979), and A Chocolate Soldier (1988)—Colter, whose favorite novel is Crime and Punishment and whose favorite philosophers are ...
typed urbanites such as Bubber Brown, a would- be private detective; Jinx Jenkins, his friend; Spider Webb, a numbers runner; Do ...
Set in the fictional postbellum community of Pasteville, North Carolina (Chesnutt’s fictional Fayetteville), the seven frame sto ...
Jane, his surrogate mother, has Aunt Peggy con- vert Mose into a hummingbird and later a mock- ingbird. On both occasions, Mose ...
that people face every day, as her mostly African- American female protagonists deal with issues of racism, sexism, and poverty. ...
Corbin, Steven (1953–1995) Steven Corbin was born in 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Although he left before graduating, Corbin ...
Cornish, Sam (1935– ) A prolific poet, editor, and juvenile author, Cor- nish was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He left high scho ...
is not as alienated, in the end, as the black worker, who is left “outdoors,” as TONI MORRISON might say. To the white reader, t ...
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “Relate Sexual to Histori- cal: Race, Resistance, and Desire in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” African American ...
of sketches of Sandy Jenkins, the character he cre- ated in 1896. These sketches were collected into his first book, The Black C ...
Why do men sneer when I arise And stand in their councils, And look them eye to eye, And speak their tongue? Is it because I am ...
electric chair. Having defended his wife’s honor, he has behaved chivalrously and can die with dignity. Caleb, the Degenerate, a ...
Crisis, The First published in November 1910 as the official organ of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COLORED ...
In 1922, Cullen entered New York University and began his career as a published poet. In 1923 and 1924, respectively, he won sec ...
12 8 d Danner, Margaret Esse (1915–1984) Poet, editor, and community activist Margaret Esse Danner was born in Pryorsburg, Ke ...
Committee (1964–1966). In 1973, Danner was among 18 prominent black women poets invited to read from her works at the Phillis Wh ...
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