Du Bois and the minstrels
Scott Herring
W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is not a book that can be read in ignorance of its…
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What about the sweetheart?: The “Different Shape” of Anishinabe Two Sisters Stories in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Tales of Burning Love …
Langston Hughes’s Radical Poetry and the “End of Race”
Anthony Dawahare
For a number of reasons, Langston Hughes’s radical poetry, …
Feng Shui, Astrology, and the Five Elements: Traditional Chinese Belief in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club – Critical Essay
Patricia L. Hamilt…
Double Consciousness, Modernism, and Womanist Themes in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad” – African American poet
A. Yemisi Jimoh
Dou…
The “Dual”-ing Images of la Malinche and la Virgen de Guadalupe in Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street – Critical Essay
Leslie Petty
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Mourning Dove’s Cogewea: Writing Her Way into Modernity
Alicia Kent
This is the trouble, the fate of the average breed of today. Th…
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s interpreter of Maladies as a short story cycle
Noelle Brada-Williams
It may at first seem strange to descri…
Flippin’: Filipinos on America
Leonard Casper
Flippin’: Filipinos on America. Edited by Luis H. Francia and Eric Gamalinda. New Yor…
Sexual desire and cultural memory in three ethnic poets
Douglas Basford
In introducing On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic F…