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Books on: african american writer

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Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers

Book by Femi Ojo-Ade; Greenwood Press, 1996

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Africa--In Literature, African Americans In Literature, American Literature--African American Authors--Appreciation--Africa, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...nightmare of slavery, African Americans have moved into the...not enough to blame African Americans for the gorge separating us. If we Africans have forgotten the trauma...remember. The South African writer Eskia Mphahlele, in...
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Mules and Dragons: Popular Culture Images in the Selected Writings of African-American and Chinese-American Women Writers

Book by Mary E. Young; Greenwood Press, 1993

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American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Chinese American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Popular Culture In Literature, Stereotype (Psychology) In Literature, Women And Literature--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...exploitation of African-American women continued...of African-Americans had to be created...deeds of a Euro-American office holder...existing among African-American women...Hernton, an African-American writer, espoused these...
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Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

Book by John K. Young; University Press of Mississippi, 2006

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African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--Publishing--History--20th Century, Authors And Publishers--United States--History--20th Century, Literature Publishing--Political Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Literature Publishing--United States--History--20th Century, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Race In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...scholars focusing on African American literature: the social...conceptual space for writers like Wright, Larsen...include not only minority writers themselves, but the...while written by certain writers, were never authorized...persons other than the writer of the texts (61...
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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

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...examination of an African American writer such as Henry Dumas...and serious reader of African American literature...literary territory in the African American world, but...must take courses in African American culture and...foundations of the Africans cultural response to...the Euro- American writers and authors. The only...
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

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African American Novelists--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

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African American must face...the African American writer than to fictionalize...inheritors of a rich African American culture. Therefore...publications as Freedomways, American Pen, The American Negro Writer and His...a nation of African Americans caught between making...

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Journal Articles on: african american writer

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Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer

Journal article by Jerry W. Ward Jr.; African American Review, Vol. 36, 2002

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Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (Book)

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...The Making of an African American Writer by...an African American Writer. New York: St. Martins...the African American writer and to some of the...an African American writer," regardless of gender...himself a task many male writers find unsettling: to...large body of African American autobiography. We...majority of African Americans. His parentage makes...
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Young, John K. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature

Journal article by Bernard W. Bell; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 36, 2008

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Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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...John K. Black Writers, White Publishers...Twentieth-Century African American Literature...John K. Black Writers, White Publishers...literary critic or writer to know about the...black American writer with white American publishers and...marketing of the writers book? The theme...books by black Americans. Although (in...
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Tom Dent's Role in the Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A Memoir

Journal article by Quo Vadis Gex Breaux; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American authors--Biography, African American authors--Works, African American writers--Biography, African American writers--Works, Authors--Biography, Authors--Services, Authors--Works, Dent, Thomas C.--Biography, Dent, Thomas C.--Services, Dent, Thomas C.--Works, Writers--Biography, Writers--Services, Writers--Works

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...Organizational Mentoring of African American Southern Writers: A...involvement in the grooming of writers and the organizations...keep a group of Black writers workshopping in New...through the Congo Square Writers Union in the 1980s all...mentor, he was poet, writer, journalist, administrator...
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Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861

Journal article by Bruce Dain; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...African American Writers and the Challenge of...African American Writers and the Challenge of...African American Writers and the Challenge of...found in the destiny of African Americans and Africans, now despised but...African or African American accomplishments in...
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Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861

Journal article by Vernon J. Williams Jr.; CLIO, Vol. 34, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge...authentic African American culture. For those...both African American and European-American men--the questions...whether African Americans retained the essential...

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Magazine Articles on: african american writer

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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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Punk and Proud: With His New Picture, Punks, Writer-Director Patrik-Ian Polk Awakens Gay Films to an African-American Perspective

Magazine article by Anderson Jones; The Advocate, December 4, 2001

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Filmmakers--Interviews, Movie directors--Interviews, Movie producers (Persons)--Interviews, Polk, Patrik-Ian--Interviews

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...Proud: With His New Picture, Punks, Writer-Director Patrik-Ian Polk Awakens Gay Films to an African-American Perspective. by Anderson Jones "Hold on one second." Thats how Punks writer-director Patrik-Ian Polk, 28...
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Fame and Poverty - the Career of Nigerian Novelist Cyprian Ekwensi Exemplifies the Plight of the African Writer

Magazine article by Charles R. Larson; World and I, Vol. 15, October 2000

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African literature--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Ekwensi, Cyprian--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Exemplifies the Plight of the African Writer. by CHARLES...professor of literature at American University in Washington...century ago, the Nigerian writer and critic Ernest Emenyonu...correctly assessed as a writer. Critics who seem unable...effect his growth as a writer, which can be clearly...most prolific African writers of the twentieth century...
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An African Writer Looks at Ebonics

Magazine article by Tarty Teh; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, September 29, 1997

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African Americans--Languages, Africans in the United States--Attitudes, Black English--Evaluation

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An African writer looks at ebonics by Tarty...is presumed to be the writers best effort. Therefore if it is bad, the writer can be judged as lacking the...grammarian. I have seen my own American-born children struggle with...
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African-American Farmers in Trouble: Leslie Goffe Reports on the Tribulations of African-American Farmers in 'God's Own Country'. Harlem Is Nowhere

Magazine article by Leslie Goffe; New African, January 2002

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African American farmers--Social aspects, Agricultural subsidies--Social aspects, Credit discrimination--Cases, Discrimination in consumer credit--Cases, Race discrimination--Economic aspects, Rural urban migration--Social aspects, Rural-urban migration--Social aspects, United States. Department of Agriculture--Cases

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...opportunity to succeed. African-Americans have an ambivalent...cases, African-Americans simply swapped difficult...distinguished African-American writer, wrote in his 1948...Nowhere, that African-Americans who fled the South...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american writer

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The False Promises of African Chic; as Kate Moss Blacks Up as an Icon of Concern for Africa, One Writer Says the Continent Remains the Victim of Patronising,if Well-Meaning Outsiders

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 22, 2006

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African Americans

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

The False Promises of African Chic; as Kate Moss Blacks...of Concern for Africa, One Writer Says the Continent Remains...feet over basic reforms. Africans are victims of their own mistakes...is. Fifty years after most African countries gained independence...But a new generation of Africans are uncomfortable with foreign...
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On MLK Day, Note How Far African-Americans Have Come

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 17, 2011

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African Americans, Cole, Nat King

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

...Day, Note How Far African-Americans Have Come. Byline...inevitably will ask Americans whether they believe...Some young African-American is sure to say something...only are African-Americans present on local television...become a kingmaker for writers? Oprahs endorsement...chairman, coach and writer.
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Prolific Writer on African Life Is Portrayed in First Biography

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 7, 2003

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

Prolific writer on African life is portrayed in first...who helped a young American (30) get his first book...underestimated the power of the African drive for independence...farm to her eight senior African employees. Jos, the...
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Africans Are Ready to Rock the World; the World Cup Will Be Held in Africa for the First Time This Year and Sunderland Defender John Mensah Argues the African Cup of Nations Could Give Us an Early Glimpse of the Eventual Winners. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Reports

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 6, 2010

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Continents, Professional soccer

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

...John Mensah Argues the African Cup of Nations Could...Winners. Chief Sports Writer Luke Edwards Reports...famine and disease, yet African football has never shown...football, however, Africans have found more than...established powers. South American countries have never...matter of time before African national sides do likewise...
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Face to Face with General Butt Naked - 'The Most Evil Man in the World'; He's the African Warlord Who's Admitted Cannibalism, Child Sacrifice and Using His Cocaine-Crazed Boy Soldiers to Kill 20,000 People. Now in an Extraordinary Meeting, a Mail on Sunday Writer Comes. Now He Fears Losing His Own Children

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 28, 2010

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Child soldiers--Casualties, Cocaine--Casualties, Military maneuvers--Casualties, Military operations--Casualties, Murder--Casualties

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

...in the World; Hes the African Warlord Whos Admitted...Meeting, a Mail on Sunday Writer Comes. Now He Fears...Liberia is the only African country without roots...and colonised by freed American slaves in the early 1820s...is the subject of an American documentary at the Sundance...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american writer

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...included excellent writers, among them...aspiring American writer and was first...by presenting American folk stories...the hearts of Americans with glib...a number of American writers, particularly...as well as a writer of Klondike...contemporary American society. The...the work of African-American...Mae Brown) writers, who previously...
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Angelou, Maya

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...mi an j loo, 1928 , African-American writer and performer, b...joined the Harlem Writers Guild, and took part...she was active in the African-American political...Ghana as editor of the African Review. Her six autobiographical...
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Hurston, Zora Neale

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

HURSTON, ZORA NEALE 1891? 60, African-American writer, b. Notasulga, Ala. She grew up in the pleasant...anthropologist and folklorist, Hurston collected African-American folktales in the rural South and sympathetically...
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Bontemps, Arna

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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BONTEMPS, ARNA 1902 73, African-American writer, b. Alexandria, La. He is best remembered as the author of the novel God Sends Sunday (1931), the basis of the play St...
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Parks, Gordon

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Buchanan Parks), 1912 2006, African-American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer, b. Fort...trailblazer, he was the first African American photographer at...marked the debut of the African-American action hero...

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