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Books on: "Sterling Brown"

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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

Book by James Edward Smethurst; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Politics And Government, American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Communism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Race Relations In Literature, Right And Left (Political Science) In Literature, United States--Race Relations

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and ...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946 surveys African American poetry between the onset of the Depression and the early days of the Cold War. The New Red Negro considers the relationship between the thematic and formal choices of African American poets and organized ideology from the "proletarian" early 1930s to the "neo-modernist" late 1940s. This study examines poetry by writers who are canonical, less well-known, and virtually unknown.
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Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined

Book by Victor A. Kramer, Robert A. Russ; Whitston Publishing Company, 1997

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual Life, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--New York (State)--New York--History And Criticism, Harlem Renaissance

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing ...
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While the height of the Harlem Renaissance occurred more than seventy years ago, in many ways it still has an effect on our culture. "The Harlem Renaissance Re-examined" brings to light long-neglected writers and artists from that era for a second look at the roles that they played in developing the arts in America, and for a re-evaluation of thier talents.
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

Book by James Edward Smethurst; University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Black Nationalism In Literature, Black Nationalism--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...cornrows and lumber camps, as Sterling Brown said) 3 One can argue, and many...one considers the poetry of Sterling Brown (whose popularity on the Left...larger public arena), as did poets Sterling Brown and Frank Marshall Davis, or found...
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Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African-American Intellectual

Book by Kenneth Robert Janken; University of Massachusetts Press, 1993

Subjects:

African American Historians--Biography, Historians--United States--Biography, Logan, Rayford Whittingham--1897-

Collections: History, Entire Library

'A thoughtful, sensitive study of one of the most important historians of African American culture in this century...Rayford Logan deserves to be remembered, and Janken's study ensures that his fighting spirit and devotion to learning will remain a lesson to future scholars.'--Arnold Rampersad, Princeton University
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Jessie Redmon Fauset, Black American Writer

Book by Carolyn Wedin Sylvander; Whitston, 1981

Subjects:

African American Women In Literature, African Americans In Literature, Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This book presents a clear and accurate portrayal of a black woman writer. Sylvander illustrates Fauset as a black woman who defied the traditional expectations of a society and who wrote with an awareness of racial and sexual themes.

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Journal Articles on: "Sterling Brown"

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Sterling Brown: Maker of Community in Academia

Journal article by Joyce A.A. Camper; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Brown, Sterling Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature and society--Evaluation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Sterling Brown: maker of community in academia...a typescript entitled "A Tribute to Sterling Brown." Mrs. Egypt saved her carbon copies...share it with you now. When I think of Sterling Brown, I think of Daisy too; for they are...
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And I Owe It All to Sterling Brown: The Theory and Practice of Black Literary Studies

Journal article by Fahamisha Patricia Brown; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997

Subjects:

African American authors--Influence, African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Brown, Sterling Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

And I owe it all to Sterling Brown: the theory and practice of Black...hard to imagine a world without Sterling Brown in it," mused a colleague from...Nigerian poet, "a libation for Sterling Brown." "Ashe," we responded. When...
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Sterling Brown: An Ethnographic Perspective

Journal article by Beverly Lanier Skinner; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Brown, Sterling Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ethnohistory--Evaluation

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Sterling Brown: an ethnographic perspective...poetic achievement. My thesis is that Sterling Brown was a postmodern ethnographer who by...Turner advocated the pursuit of what Sterling Brown already had accomplished - namely...
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Memories of Sterling Brown

Journal article by Ronald D. Palmer; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997

Subjects:

African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Brown, Sterling Allen--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Memories of Sterling Brown. by Ronald D. Palmer Nearly fifty years ago, Sterling Brown lived a short distance across the...Diaper-Linen Company, a commercial laundry. Sterling Brown was an ardent supporter of black business...
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Sterling Brown and the 'Vestiges' of the Blues: The Role of Race in English Verse Structure

Journal article by Michael Tomasek Manson; MELUS, Vol. 21, 1996

Subjects:

American literature--African American authors, Blues (Music)--Influence, Brown, Sterling--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Southern Road (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Versification--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Sterling Brown and the vestiges of the blues: the role...6.) Baker makes a similar point: "Sterling Brown--in a gesture that implies self-conscious...Henderson, Stephen E. "The Heavy Blues of Sterling Brown: A Study of Craft and Tradition." Black...

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Magazine Articles on: "Sterling Brown"

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Recent & Relevant

Magazine article; American Visions, Vol. 11, August 1996

Subjects:

American poetry--African American authors, Books--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...Poetry and Prose edited by Faith Jaycox (Crown. 1996. $10) - Works by literary figures Phillis Wheatley, Maya Angelou, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen) are contained within, and poems by social and political figures (Martin Luther King...
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Margaret Walker Alexander

Magazine article by Amiri Baraka; The Nation, Vol. 268, January 4, 1999

Subjects:

African American authors--Appreciation, African American writers--Appreciation, Alexander, Margaret Walker--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...mouth. Because after the great Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown, the twin headlines of literary divinity were Richard...tradition she carries as strongly as Langston Hughes or Sterling Brown. Margarets work is always an expression of creation...
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A Poet and a Scholar

Magazine article by Barrington M. Salmon; American Visions, Vol. 15, June 2000

Subjects:

Poets laureate--Conduct of life, Poets--Conduct of life

Collections: Entire Library

...laureate by Mayor Anthony A. Williams. She is the second poet laureate in the districts history; poet and literary giant Sterling Brown, who was appointed to the position in 1984, was the first to hold the honor. So far. Kendrick says, the highlight...
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Black Romantic

Magazine article by Phillip M. Richards; American Scholar, Vol. 72, Summer 2003

Subjects:

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LANGSTON HUGHES (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...young instructor in 1978, his spirit still hung over those who, like Davis, Julian Mayfield, Eugenia Collier, and Sterling Brown, had known him personally--not to mention the first cohort of young black intellectuals I had met who continued to...
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Bookshelf

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 54, February 1999

Subjects:

Books--Evaluation

Collections: Entire Library

...Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde So Long a Letter by Miriama Ba Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Southern Road by Sterling Brown Tar Baby by Toni Morrison The African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop The Autobiography of Malcolm...

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Newspaper Articles on: "Sterling Brown"

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Tribute Recalls Gifts of a Poet

Newspaper article by Ann Geracimos; The Washington Times, November 3, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...have been invited to attend as "Sterling Brown Fellows" as the result of an award...a Howard professor (also named Sterling Brown) and attended Dunbar High School...Renaissance Man: A Celebration of Sterling Brown Across the Arts," can be obtained...
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The Arts Lose Two Giants

Newspaper article by Jonetta Rose Barras; The Washington Times, January 24, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...trinity who made Howard University sparkle. Along with Sterling Brown and Arthur P. Davis, he guided young writers, providing...community is dying. First May Miller Sullivan, then Sterling Brown, now Stephen Henderson, and Thurlow Tibbs Jr. I fear...
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Friends Mourn Poet of Protest

Newspaper article by Clarence Williams; The Washington Times, October 22, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...such as "Voices of Struggle," and he is considered among such literary giants as the Districts first poet laureate, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He was published in more than 20 literary magazines and lectured at...
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Late Mayor, No Kin but Served as Father Figure

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 31, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...commissioners and those folks on the Hill." "On the Hill" on Georgia Avenue NW, many like Mr. Washingtons neighbor, poet Sterling Brown, were embedded with what D.C. writer Charlie Cobb calls "a racial consciousness." In that generation, "race men" felt...
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Getting the District Versed on Poetry

Newspaper article by Barrington Salmon; The Washington Times, September 4, 1999

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...eventually will become her legacy as poet laureate. Her task is formidable as successor to poet and literary giant Sterling Brown, named the Districts first poet laureate in 1984. "He was a very formidable man in a poetic sense," Miss Kendrick...

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