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An anthology of 16 stories and excerpts from novels by African American writers includes critical essays on each author by a variety of scholars.
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It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural sym
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The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to
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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race
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Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent pe