African American literature’s exploration and explication of such complexity remains important as we grapple with questions of identity, belonging, and justice.

African-American writers since the 19th century have advocated a distinctively black literature and aesthetic, and in the 20th century countless American groups followed suit, attempting the Asian ...

African American Literature as Academic and Cultural Capital: 24. Children's and young adult literatures Giselle L. Anatol; 25. From writer to reader: Black popular fiction Candice Love Jackson; 26.

African American literature’s prowess resides in its capacity to transform personal experience into universal truth. When Ralph Ellison wrote on invisibility, he wasn’t just describing the ...

EDWARDSVILLE Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the Mellon Foundation ...

The relationships between African American literature and American law are such that the textual body of each, taken broadly, can be read as the basis for an alternative text of the other. The law's ...

The African American Children’s Book Project was created in 1992 to promote and preserve children’s literature written by or about African Americans. To learn more or donate, visit https ...

Newman is the lead editor of Pamphlets of Protest: An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790—1860 (Routledge), with colleagues Patrick Rael and Phillip Lapsansky, and author of ...

For 25 years, Rashidah Muhammad has worked to put the spotlight on African American literature during Black History Month at Governors State University. She is carrying on that tradition this year ...

The exhibit highlights Wheatley’s role in African-American literature shown with meeting minutes for the “Book Lovers Club” — an African-American book club in Wisconsin where Black intellectuals ...

Talk of Iowa A reading list of great African American literature from an Iowa teacher By Charity Nebbe, Matthew Alvarez, Katherine Perkins Published September 23, 2022 at 6:00 AM CDT ...

"African American Literature" is a textbook in an advanced placement social studies class at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Ala. (Julie Bennett for The Washington Post) Perspective by Michelle ...