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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Langston Hughes’s Radical Poetry and the “End of Race”
Anthony Dawahare
For a number of reasons, Langston Hughes’s radical poetry, …
Double Consciousness, Modernism, and Womanist Themes in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Anniad” – African American poet
A. Yemisi Jimoh
Dou…
Mourning Dove’s Cogewea: Writing Her Way into Modernity
Alicia Kent
This is the trouble, the fate of the average breed of today. Th…
Flippin’: Filipinos on America
Leonard Casper
Flippin’: Filipinos on America. Edited by Luis H. Francia and Eric Gamalinda. New Yor…
Racial conflict and multiculturalism: Bernard Malamud’s “The Tenants.” – black-Jewish relations
Edmund Spevack
W.E.B. Du Bois warne…
Answer jazz’s call: experiencing Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz.’
Veronique Lesoinne
Ideally, the [jazz] listener listened intently enough t…
Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature. – book reviews
Joseph Zornado
Edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Annette White-…
Periodizing Toni Morrison’s work from ‘The Bluest Eye’ to ‘Jazz’: the importance of ‘Tar Baby.’
Malin Walther Pereira
It is a mark …
The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry. – book reviews
Kenneth Wishnia
Judith Ortiz Cofer. Athens and London: U of Georgia P, 1993. xii + …