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Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes

Book by Rosey E Pool; Hand and Flower Press, 1962

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American poetry--African American authors, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...1932 , a volume of poetry; THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN FICTION 1938 ; NEGRO POETRY AND DRAMA 1938...CARAVAN first edition 1941 , a book of writings by American Negroes. The following three poems from SOUTHERN ROAD are reprinted by special...
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties

Book by James C. Hall; Oxford University Press, 2001

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African American Arts--20th Century, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Social Life And Customs--20th Century, Modernism (Art)--United States, Modernism (Literature)--United States, United States--History--1961-1969, United States--Intellectual Life--20th Century, United States--Social Life And Customs--1945-1970

Collections: History, Entire Library

...dencies within contemporary American culture, even as there...being within and without African-American culture...persona, and imagines African-American literature...a good liar -in the African-American sense of the...American historical poems that we may ever see...
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African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel

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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...developed by enslaved Africans, this negotiation...and justice to African Americans. Although I mark African American satires origins...argue that African American folklife always...existence of African American folk culture and...texts by African Americans that could legitimately...novel, selected poems by Frances E...
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The Daughter's Return: African-American and Caribbean Women's Fictions of History

Book by Caroline Rody; Oxford University Press, 2001

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African American Women In Literature, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Caribbean Fiction (English)--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Daughters In Literature, Literature And History--History--20th Century, Mothers And Daughters In Literature, Return In Literature, Women And Literature--History--20th Century, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Addressing the brilliant African great-great-grandmother...to recover African-American history in poems of human encounter...cemetery ). In another poem, she personalizes the...the long days. At the poems end, Clifton conjures...history, an untitled poem from Quilting: Poems...
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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

...a sense that the African-American vernacular culture...depending on the poem in question that...student body. The poems of the collection...the veracity of the poems "portraits" on...in Athenss title poem with a vernacular...great majority of poems that follow in which...

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Journal Articles on: african american poems

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Marginal Spaces, Marginal Texts: Alice Dunbar-nelson and the African American Prose Poem

Journal article by Adenike Marie Davidson; Southern Quarterly, Vol. 44, 2006

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African Americans, Poetry, Short stories, Women

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...nelson and the African American Prose Poem by Adenike...prose - prose poems. Hence, early...them as prose poems. Speaking...specifically about the African American prose poet...American Prose Poems," argues...The prose poem becomes an...
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African American Women's Poetry in the Christian Recorder, 1855-1865: A Bio-Bibliography with Sample Poems

Journal article by Eric Gardner; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, African American poetry--Works, African American women poets--Criticism and interpretation, African American women poets--Personalities, African American women poets--Works, American poetry--African American authors, American poetry--Criticism and interpretation, American poetry--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

African American Womens Poetry...published poems in the Recorder...published only a poem or two in...Recorder poems and the direct...Century American Womens Poetry...defining African Americans as human...future of African Americans, and events...three of the poems above, are...Harriet E. Poem: "Sacred...
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Paul Laurence Dunbar's Performances and the Epistolary Dialect Poem

Journal article by Nadia Nurhussein; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American authors--Speeches, lectures and essays, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Speeches, lectures and essays, African American writers--Works, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Criticism and interpretation, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Speeches, lectures and essays, Dunbar, Paul Laurence--Works

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...a Midwestern American literary tradition...tradition of African American art...epistolary dialect poem written by a...epistolary dialect poem serves as a microcosm...epistolary dialect poems into dialect...Letters in Dunbars poems are often kept...versions of the poem available in...specializes in African American poetry. She...
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Reading South: Poets Mean & Poems Signify - a Note on Origins

Journal article by Jerry W. Ward Jr.; African American Review, Vol. 27, 1993

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African American poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American poetry--African American authors, Fabio, Sarah Webster--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Language and culture--Social aspects

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...Reading South: Poets mean poems signify - a note on origins...moment in the history of African American poetry that will not...their oral heritage. The poems printed in Rainbow Signs...Things (A Hoodoo Nature Poem)" on facing pages...how Fabio meant for the poems to be read? In her authors...
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Frank Marshall Davis. Black Moods: Collected Poems

Journal article by James A. Miller; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

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Black Moods: Collected Poems (Book)--Reviews

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...in 1948, 47th Street: Poems. These collections...uncollected and collected poems--which Tidwell conveniently...social verse," "jazz poems," "Hawaii," and...still-emerging canon of African American literature, but also...

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Magazine Articles on: african american poems

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NBA Star Grant Hill Shares Prized African American Art Collection

Magazine article by Joy Sewing; The Crisis, Vol. 111, September 2004

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African Americans, Art exhibits, Athletes, Collections, Hill, Grant, Professional basketball

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...Grant Hill Shares Prized African American Art Collection by Joy...bought his first piece of African American art. The print...Grant Hill Collection of African American Art." The title comes from the 1942 poem, "For My People...the first edition of Poems on Various Subjects...
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Being Seen and Heard: African American Documentation Initiatives in Iowa and Minnesota

Magazine article by Kathryn M. Neal; Negro History Bulletin, January 2001

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African Americans--History, African Americans--Political activity, Historic documents--Management, Iowa--Demographic aspects, Iowa--History, Minnesota--Demographic aspects, Minnesota--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...major era in African American literary history...about African Americans. Although literature...Wheatleys book Poems on Various Subjects...my children, poems I had written...to save the poems and letters...Foundation of African American Literature...for African Americans from 1931 to...
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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

...depth and breadth of African-American writing over the...illustrious list of American writers of African heritage from other...identifying as African-Americans now outstrips the...editors of African-American Review, Callaloo...
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Sixty Years of Great Books by African-Americans

Magazine article; Ebony, Vol. 61, November 2005

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African Americans

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...Great Books by African-Americans. SCORES of African-Americans have written major...THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES...an African-Americans search for the...African and African-American roots, by Alex...
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Looking through the Eyes of Injustice: Integrating Poetry and African-american History

Magazine article by Cassandra Pierce-Thomas; Multicultural Education, Vol. 14, Summer 2007

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African Americans, American history, Gossip, Guidelines, Language arts, Learning, Poetry, Prejudice

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...bringing in an African-American History...great African- Americans and their accomplishments...each line of the poem, and the students wrote a class poem about Jackie...wrote their bio-poems and Star Thomas...shed light on African- American folk culture...this type of poem, the students...through their poems. Star achieved...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american poems

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First Public Statue of a Black Woman; (1) Bond of Hope: The Completed Model of Aleix Barbat's 1ft Statue of a Mother and Child (2)Artists: Cecile Nobrega with the Late Sculptor Ian Walters and, above, an Extract from Her Poem

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 5, 2008

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African Americans, Artists

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

...Walters and, above, an Extract from Her Poem. Byline: VALENTINE LOW WHEN this sculpture...slave trade," shesaid.. "For us the poem and the statue is about hope. It is a...Walters and, above, an extract from her poem THE BRONZE WOMAN
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Poem Sent from Wales to Obama

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 15, 2009

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

Poem Sent from Wales to...Clarke, has sent a poem to President Elect...promotion agency. The two poems mark the inauguration...Tuesday of the first African American to hold the office...Academi to write a poem in honour of the historic...
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Songs, Poems of War Mostly Forgotten

Newspaper article by Peter Cliffe; The Washington Times, July 8, 2000

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Lee, Robert E.

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

Songs, poems of war mostly forgotten...war horns blare on an American battlefield never could...period, the majority of poems and songs have faded...New York judge. His poem appeared in an 1867...portraying the role of African Americans in the Civil War. For...dedicated to preserving American history, sponsors...
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For Colored Girls (15) THE [...]

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 1, 2011

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African Americans

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

...adaptation of a collection of poems from 1975, For Colored Girls...interlocking lives of a group of American black women, including a young...words. FILM ?? EXTRAS ? The American (15) FOLLOWING a bungled...Gentleman, by Martin Booth, The American is an unremittingly bleak and...
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The Other Negros

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, June 6, 2010

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African Americans

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

...our Creative Writing class had produced poems about themselves and childrens stories...Crafts. The Choral Music class gathered the poems we produced and picked - Merilyn Gonzagas...we could say that we succeeded based on poems performed such as Joy Grace Jaras I Am...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american poems

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...theological, and Anne Bradstreet s poems, issued as The Tenth Muse...by the first professional American novelist, Charles Brockden...coveted by every aspiring American writer and was first achieved...won attention by presenting American folk stories, and James Fenimore...Longfellow , who won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing verse...
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...LAURENCE dun bar, 1872 1906, American poet and novelist, b. Dayton...Life (1896) a collection of poems from his Oak and Ivy (1893...Minors (1895). His humorous poems employing African-American folk materials and dialect were...
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Baraka, Amiri

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...amere b ra k , 1934 , American poet, playwright...of mainstream white American society. His volumes of poems include Preface to...Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women...intensely involved with the African-American community...
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Dove, Rita

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

DOVE, RITA 1952 , American poet, b. Akron, Ohio...poetry collection, Ten Poems, was published in 1977...History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps...as in the slavery poem sequence of The Yellow...laureate, the first African American to hold the...
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Hughes, Langston

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Hughes), 1902 67, American poet and central figure...concerned with depicting African American life, particularly...experience of the urban African American. Among his later collections...1949), and Selected Poems (1959). Hughess numerous...

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