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Books on: african american author

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African American Authors, 1745-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

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African American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Literature--African American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The Two Offers" was published in the Weekly Anglo- African . With this story, Harper is credited with being the first African American author to publish a short story. Harper published several...
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African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel

Book by Darryl Dickson-Carr; University of Missouri Press, 2001

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African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Political Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Political Satire, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Satire, American--History And Criticism

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Americans in the past and a push...points in the direction African American satire is most likely...a Young Man, for the African American author in the late 1990s. The...lampoon appropriately an African American and American...
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Language and Literature in the African American Imagination

Book by Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay; Greenwood Press, 1992

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Africa--In Literature, African American Aesthetics, African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life, African Americans--Languages, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, American Literature--African Influences, English Language--United States--Foreign Elements--African

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...utterances as clearly African American as Zora Hurstons "bref...Wisconsin Forests." African American literature...levels of value: the African value and the American...design brings together the author and his audience in much...
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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

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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

...useful precisely because so many African-American writers of the 1930s and 1940s...when referring to the period of African-American literary production...every collection of poetry by an African-American author and every anthology of African...
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Burnin' Down the House: Home in African American Literature

Book by Valerie Sweeney Prince; Columbia University Press, 2005

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African American Families In Literature, African American Women In Literature, African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Domestic Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Dwellings In Literature, Family In Literature, Home In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Perhaps no other African American authors have been more accepted...the work of other male authors like Langston Hughes...or more contemporary authors like James Baldwin...major African American author since the publication...

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Journal Articles on: african american author

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Introduction: Reclaiming Julia C. Collins, Forgotten 19th-Century African American Author

Journal article by Veta Smith Tucker; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Works, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

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...most free African Americans believed...which African Americans would earn...rights as American citizens...sentiments of the author and "tried...those of the African American northern...beginning African Americans dreamed that...
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Black Like?: The Strange Case of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins

Journal article by Jennifer Harris; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American women authors--Biography, African American women writers--Biography, Kelley-Hawkins, Emma Dunham--Biography

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...obscured their African American heritage...Exposing authors who are passing...posit that an author widely accepted as African American may not be...of African Americans. (10...century female authors clearly illustrate...by African American authors...
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African American Review Special Issue-Introduction

Journal article by Paul Laurence Dunbar; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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African American authors--Appreciation, African American writers--Appreciation, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Appreciation

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...courses in American literature...Jones is the author of Strange...journals such as American Literary History...Quarterly, and African American Review...he is the author or editor of...Center for African American Studies at...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar and Turn-into-the-20th-Century African American Dualism

Journal article by James Smethurst; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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Activists--Comparative analysis, Activists--Works, African American authors--Comparative analysis, African American authors--Works, African American literature--Study and teaching, African American writers--Comparative analysis, African American writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Study and teaching, Du Bois, W.E.B.--Comparative analysis, Du Bois, W.E.B.--Works, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Comparative analysis, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Works, Political activists--Comparative analysis, Political activists--Works, Reformers--Comparative analysis, Reformers--Works, Social reformers--Comparative analysis, Social reformers--Works

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...20th-Century African American Dualism. by...expressions of African American dualism, within...status of African Americans, and their...African American author. As Countee...dandyism in which African Americans were shown as...predominantly African American audiences...noted that white authors, particularly...
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Bourgeois Blackness and Autobiographical Authenticity in Ellen Tarry's the Third Door

Journal article by Stephanie Brown; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Works, Autobiographies--Criticism and interpretation, Black identity--Portrayals, Blacks--Portrayals, Blacks--Race identity, Middle class--Portrayals, Middle classes--Portrayals, Tarry, Ellen--Criticism and interpretation, Tarry, Ellen--Works, The Third Door (Autobiography)--Criticism and interpretation

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...convergences among African American studies and ongoing...authenticity in African American cultural production...shape of the African American literary canon but...experience, of African Americans themselves. (1...to those texts and authors historically marginalized...of African American author and political activist...

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Magazine Articles on: african american author

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USA: "The Best Way to Keep the Nigger from Voting Is to See Him the Night before Election"; A Powerful New Pictorial Book, the Coming Free - the Struggle for African American Equality 1954-1966 Has Just Been Published. in This Piece the Author, David Rubel, Provides a Little Taste of What the Book Offers

Magazine article by David Rubel; New African, April 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The Coming Free - The Struggle for African American Equality 1954-1966 (Book)--Book reviews

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...the Struggle for African American Equality 1954...This Piece the Author, David Rubel...1920), African-Americans were still being...many African-Americans were lynched between...missionaries after the American Civil War). Unfortunately...prosperous African-Americans had jointly owned...
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Sex and Salvation: Best-Selling Author E. Lynn Harris Takes on Boy Bands, Antigay Politics, and African-American Megachurches in His New Novel

Magazine article by Michael Giltz; The Advocate, May 23, 2006

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Authors--Interviews, Harris, E. Lynn--Interviews, Writers--Interviews

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...Salvation: Best-Selling Author E. Lynn Harris Takes...Antigay Politics, and African-American Megachurches in His...was exhausted. The author of a series of juicy...apartment," says the author, who also has a place...collection of novellas by new authors, with one by Harris...
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Book Reviewing, African-American Style

Magazine article by Wanda Coleman; The Nation, Vol. 275, September 16, 2002

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, Criticism--Analysis, Race relations--History, United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Book Reviewing, African-American Style...the leading African-American bookstore in Los Angeles...present-day African-American writers, no matter...shifting currents in American publishing. Into this...century, African-Americans are still denied full...two Afro-American authors, whose readership...could not guarantee the author the crossover or white...
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Writing a New Chapter in Book Publishing: African Americans Are Making Money Doing What Others Thought Impossible; Getting Blacks to Buy Hardcover Books. but Do We Have the Clout?

Magazine article by Carolyn M, Brown; Black Enterprise, Vol. 25, February 1995

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African American authors--Marketing, American literature--African American authors, Literary agents--Directories, Publishing industry--Officials and employees

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...publishing: African Americans are making...African-American managers...genres, these authors write both...the noted African-American authors Jill Nelson...Black authors and publishers...appeal to African-Americans." BIG HOUSES...African-American, Asian...
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Summer Reading: Our Most Revered Writers' Favorite Works Validate for Us the Authors' Voices and Judgments - and Their Treasures

Magazine article; American Visions, Vol. 9, June 1994

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American literature--African American authors

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...validate for us the authors voices and judgments...validate for us the authors voices and judgments...three of our leading African-American writers...subtleties and nuances the author brings to this contemporary...resourceful young African-American hero I have ever seen...absorbed African-American mother since the evil...successful African Americans. I also completed...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american author

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JK Rowling, the Author the Americans Just Love to Hate; Harry Potter's Creator on Top Ten Target List - for Promoting Witchcraft

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 30, 2006

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Americans

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

JK Rowling, the Author the Americans Just Love to Hate...the list of writers Americans want to ban. The multimillionaire...As a result, the American Library Association...contains so many wonderful authors that her inclusion...Bird, J D Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye...Sings, the story of an African American childhood...
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Israel Lobby Aided Hill Visits for U.N. Report Author; S. African Excoriated Gaza War Campaign

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 30, 2010

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Lobbying--Political aspects, Lobbying--Reports

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...Visits for U.N. Report Author; S. African Excoriated Gaza War Campaign...of Congress and South African Judge Richard Goldstone...liberal alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs...before the retired South African jurist came to Washington...
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New Net Database Traces Slave Ships; Records of 10.5 Million African-American Slaves Go Online

Newspaper article; The Gympie Times (Gympie, Australia), January 10, 2009

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

...Records of 10.5 Million African-American Slaves Go Online. IN...research, African-Americans will be able to trace...of the Americas." African-Americans have had...2003, US company, African Ancestry Inc, has offered...genealogist and author, Leslie Harris, said...
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Celebrating Black History Groups throughout the Chicago Area Commemorate the Achievements of African-Americans during Black History Month

Newspaper article by Virginia Kenyon; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 2, 2001

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

...the Achievements of African-Americans during Black History...Scales: The African American Fight for Justice...This years theme is "African American Mystique - History...speaker, reverend, author and DePaul professor...
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Exhibit in Aurora Examines African-Native American Lives

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 9, 2011

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Museums--Exhibitions, Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service

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

...Examines African-Native American Lives. An opening reception for "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives...the National Museum of African American History and...practices that define the African-Native American experience...p.m. Feb. 8 with author Art Burtons lecture...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american author

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GrimkÉ, Archibald Henry

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...ARCHIBALD HENRY 1849 1930, African-American author and crusader for black advancement...From 1894 to 1898 he was American consul to Santo Domingo. He...his services on behalf of the African American. See biography by J...
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Ellison, Ralph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...RALPH (Ralph Waldo Ellison), 1914 94, African-American author, b. Oklahoma City, Okla.; studied...Invisible Man (1952). A classic of American literature, it draws upon the authors experiences to detail the harrowing progress...
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Mosley, Walter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

MOSLEY, WALTER 1952 , African-American author, b. Los Angeles. He was a computer programmer until his...2004), and Cinnamon Kiss (2005). A versatile and prolific author, Mosley has written other mysteries, e.g., Fearless Jones...
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Wright, Richard

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...WRIGHT, RICHARD 1908 60, American author. An African American born on a Mississippi plantation...Thomas, a victimized African American struggling against the complicated...a folk history of African Americans; American Hunger (1977...
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Johnson, James Weldon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...JAMES WELDON 1871 1938, American author, b. Jacksonville...Johnson was the first African American to be admitted...which has been called the African-American national anthem...Trombones (1927), African-American sermons in...

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