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Kasule, Sabirah N., Michael Apolinario, Christopher Saling, Janis E. Blair, Lisa Speiser, and Holenarasipur R. Vikram. "692. Coccidioides sp. Infective Endocarditis: A Review of the Literature." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 8, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2021): S448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.889.

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Abstract Background Despite the endemic nature of Coccidioides sp. to the American Southwest, the incidence Coccidioides sp. infective endocarditis (CIE) is rare. Following successful treatment of a patient with CIE at our institution, we reviewed the literature to identify trends in disease presentation, patient characteristics, and outcomes. Methods We reviewed all cases of CIE reported since 1938. Details including patient demographics, underlying immunodeficiency, time to diagnosis, treatment, and outcome were collected for analysis of diagnostic challenges and survival. Results Including ours, we identified 11 published cases of CIE. The majority (7) occurred in men. 5 patients were of either African American or Hispanic descent. Of the 10 patients with reported ages, the median age was 35.5 years (range 3 weeks – 61 years). 5 patients had a previous diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis and only 3 had an immunocompromising condition. These comprised pregnancy, heart transplant, and juvenile inflammatory arthritis. Three cases had multi-valvular involvement, but the majority affected the mitral (5) and the aortic (4) valves. Only 2 of the 11 cases involved a prosthetic valve. Of the 8 cases with reported blood cultures, only 2 were positive. Ten of the 11 cases had extra-cardiac disease. Complement fixation (CF) titers were heterogenous with a median of 1:32 and a range of 1:1 to 1:2048. There was no obvious correlation between a patient’s CF titer and their survival. Average time to diagnosis was 3.5 months (range 2.5 – 36 months). Diagnosis was made post-mortem in 4 of the 11 cases. 6 patients (54%) did not survive. Notably, 2 of the fatal cases preceded the discovery of amphotericin B (1969) and 4 occurred prior to the discovery of fluconazole (1990). Of the five patients that survived, four required surgical intervention in addition to azole therapy. Conclusion CIE is a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. The diagnosis itself is rare, culture incubation times are long, and the symptoms are often non-specific thus delaying definitive therapy. The introduction of azole therapy appears to have had significant impact on rates of survival. Despite this, successful management of CIE still requires concurrent surgical intervention with aggressive, indefinite anti-fungal therapy. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures
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Cruz, MaryCarmen, and Ogle Burks Duff. "RainbowTeachers/Rainbow Students: Celebrating Heritage through Literature." English Journal 86, no. 5 (September 1, 1997): 78–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej19973417.

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Describes ways to promote literacy and appreciation for heritage by celebrating the literacy contributions of authors of color, such as Heritage Readings and African American Read–Ins. Offers suggestions of favorite selections by Hispanic, African American, Native American, and Asian American authors.
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Marinšek, Darja. "Female genital mutilation in African and African American women's literature." Acta Neophilologica 40, no. 1-2 (December 15, 2007): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.40.1-2.129-146.

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The article builds on the existing dispute between African and African American women writers on the competence of writing about female genital mutilation (FGM), and tries to determine the existence and nature of the differences between the writings of these two groups. The author uses comparative analysis of two popular African and African American novels, comparing their ways of describing FGM, its causes and consequences, the level ob objectivity and the style of the narrations.This is followed by a discussion on the reasons for such differences, incorporating a larger circle of both African and African American women authors, at the same time analysing the deviance within the two groups. While the differences between African American writers are not that great, as they mostly fail to present the issue from different points of view, which is often the result of their lack of direct knowledge of the topic, African authors' writing is in itself discovered to be ambivalent and not at all invariable. The reasons for such ambivalence are then discussed in greater context, focusing on the effect of the authors' personal contact with circumcision as well as their knowledge and acceptance of Western values. The author concludes by establishing the African ambivalent attitude towards FGM, which includes different aspects of the issue, as the most significant difference between their and African American writers' description of this practice.
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Bowman, Lisa. "Juvenile Delinquencyamong African-American Males: Implications for Special Education." Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners 4, no. 1 (November 1, 2000): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.56829/muvo.4.1.ph3t453174541283.

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Juvenile delinquency is a pervasive and costly problem. As a society, we are losing too many youth to substance abuse, gang involvement, and criminal activity. The toll delinquency places on families, educational systems, and social welfare systems costs monetarily and socially. In this article, I review the research literature on juvenile delinquency among African-American males to determine (a) the quantity of research on this topic, (b) the quality of research, and (c) topics that have been investigated in this area. In particular, I sought to determine the degree to which researchers have focused on delinquency within the context of race and disability. In addition, I provide implications for future research with a focus on delinquency and disability.
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Stulov, Yuri V. "Contemporary African American Historical Novel." Literature of the Americas, no. 14 (2023): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-14-75-99.

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The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences. The tragedy of people subjected to slavery as well as their masters who challenged the moral and ethical norms has remained the topical issue of contemporary African American historical novel. Pivotal for the development of the genre of African American historical novel were Jubilee by the outstanding writer and poet Margaret Walker and the non-fiction novel Roots by Alex Haley. African American authors reconsider the past from today’s perspective making use of both the newly discovered documents and the peculiarities of contemporary literary techniques and showing a versatility of genre experiments, paying attention to the ambiguity of American consciousness in relation to the past. Toni Morrison combines the sacred and the profane, reality and magic while Ishmael Reed conjugates thematic topicality and a bright literary experiment connecting history with the problems of contemporary consumer society; Charles Johnson problematizes history in a philosophic tragicomedy. Edward P. Jones reconsiders the history of slavery in a broad context as his novel’s setting is across the whole country on a broad span of time. The younger generation of African American writers represented by C. Baker, A. Randall, C. Whitehead, J. Ward and other authors touches on the issues of African American history in order to understand whether the tragic past has finally been done with. Contemporary African American historical novel relies on documents, new facts, elements of fictional biography, traditions of slave narratives and in its range makes use of peculiarities of family saga, bildungsroman, political novel, popular novel enriching it with various elements of magic realism, parodying existing canons and sharp satire.
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Neupane, Khagendra. "Africa's Portrayal in African-American Writing." Patan Gyansagar 6, no. 1 (July 9, 2024): 64–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/pg.v6i1.67409.

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The depiction of Africa in African-American literature constitutes a nuanced and dynamic exploration, unveiling the intricate rapport between African-American writers and the African continent. Over centuries, Africa's portrayal has assumed myriad forms, serving as a symbolic homeland, a locus of struggle, and a wellspring of cultural inspiration. Imbued within these representations is a profound quest for identity and a yearning for belonging. Prestigious African-American authors, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Maya Angelou, adeptly interlace African culture, folklore, and history into the tapestry of their works. In so doing, they delve into themes of heritage, resilience, and cultural pride, presenting Africa not merely as a nostalgic ideal but as a vibrant tapestry of traditions intricately shaping the African-American experience. This representation transcends sentimentality, offering a palpable connection to ancestral roots and cultural heritage. Yet, the portrayal of Africa in African-American literature transcends idyllic visions of a distant homeland. Renowned authors such as Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie confront the harsh realities of colonization, slavery, and oppression in their narratives. In their hands, Africa becomes a complex terrain of struggle and resistance, where characters grapple with the enduring legacies of colonialism and the intricate dynamics of post-colonial identity. The representation of Africa in African-American literature reflects broader historical and political dynamics. During the Harlem Renaissance, there was a surge of interest in Pan-Africanism, as African-American writers actively sought connections with counterparts on the continent in the fight against racism and imperialism. This period witnessed an embrace of African art, literature, and culture, as writers sought to reclaim and celebrate their African heritage.
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Nishikawa, Kinohi. "Driven by the Market: African American Literature after Urban Fiction." American Literary History 33, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 320–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab008.

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Abstract Kenneth W. Warren’s What Was African American Literature? (2011) compelled literary historians to question deeply held assumptions about periodization and racial authorship. While critics have taken issue with Warren aligning African American literature with Jim Crow segregation, none has examined his account of what came after this conjuncture: namely, the market’s wholesale cooptation of Black writing. By following the career of African American popular novelist Omar Tyree, this essay shows how corporate publishers in the 1990s and 2000s redefined African American literature as a sales category, one that combined a steady stream of recognized authors with a mad dash for amateur talent. Tyree had been part of the first wave of self-published authors to be picked up by major New York houses. However, as soon as he was made to conform to the industry’s demands, Tyree was eclipsed by Black women writers who developed the hard-boiled romance genre known as urban fiction. As Tyree saw his literary fortunes fade, corporate publishing became increasingly reliant on Black book entrepreneurs to sustain the category of African American literature, thereby turning racial authorship into a vehicle for realizing profits.
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King, William R., Stephen T. Holmes, Martha L. Henderson, and Edward J. Latessa. "The Community Corrections Partnership: Examining the Long-Term Effects of Youth Participation in an Afrocentric Diversion Program." Crime & Delinquency 47, no. 4 (October 2001): 558–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128701047004004.

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Using Afrocentric techniques has recently emerged as a promising way of delivering services to African Americans. Briefly, a number of authors have argued that African Americans are better served, especially by substance abuse services, when service delivery utilizes Afrocentric techniques. This study reports an evaluation of an Afrocentric treatment program for male, juvenile, felony offenders in one city. The evaluation uses a two-group, quasi-experimental design to compare the 281 African American youths in the Afrocentric treatment program (called the Community Corrections Partnership) with a comparison group of 140 probation youths. Overall, the youths assigned to the Afrocentric treatment program performed slightly better than the probationers on 4 out of 15 measures of juvenile and adult criminality.
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Leviton, Susan, Marc A. Schindler, and Renee S. Orleans. "African-American Youth: Drug Trafficking and the Justice System." Pediatrics 93, no. 6 (June 1, 1994): 1078–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.93.6.1078.

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Objective. To examine the role of the legal system in adolescent drug trafficking. Methods. Descriptive and analytic review of the literature and relevant legislation. Findings. Utilization of young adolescents by drug "kingpins" in drug trafficking is a new practice that is highly advantageous to the employer for several legal and economic reasons. From the perspective of the drug kingpins, juveniles are particularly useful in drug trafficking because they work for lower wages. Further, even if the youth are arrested, the juvenile justice system enables their rapid return for continued service in the drug trade. From the perspective of the youth, drug trafficking offers one of the few economic opportunities available to them. Further, the numbers suggest a tremendous racial disparity in the juvenile justice system. Conclusions. The mutual advantages to both employer and employee of using youths in drug trafficking increases the likelihood that this new practice will continue to flourish and with increasingly young children. Effective prevention and treatment interventions will need to be multifaceted, addressing the economic, educational, and social issues that have permitted the rapid emergence of adolescent drug trafficking. Finally, further investigation of the apparent racial disparities is necessary.
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Bassett, John. "AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS, 1745–1945: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK." Resources for American Literary Study 28, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 170–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26366940.

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Eley, Dikeita N. "Color (Sub)Conscious: African American Women, Authors, and the Color Line in Their Literature." VCU Scholars Compass, 2004. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1486.

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Color (sub)Conscious explores the African American female's experience with colorism. Divided into three distinct sections. The first section is a literary analysis of such works as Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Alice Walker's "If the Present Looks Like the Past, What Does the Future Look Like?" an essay from her collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens. The second section is a research project based on data gathered from 12 African American females willing to share their own experiences and insights on colorism. The final section is a creative non-fiction piece of the author's own personal pain growing up and living with the lasting effects of colorism.
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Raines-Sapp, Carol Lynn. "Using author studies to incorporate multicultural literature across the New Jersey core curriculum /." Full text available online, 2009. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.

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Taylor, Juko Tana. "Misrecognized and Misplaced: Race Performed in African American Literature, 1900-2015." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984162/.

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In my dissertation, I explore the ways in which racial identity is made complex through various onlookers' misrecognition of race. This issue is particularly important considering the current state of race relations in the United States, as my project offers a literary perspective and account of the way black authors have discussed racial identity formation from the turn of the century through the start of the twenty-first century. I highlight many variations of misrecognition and racial performance as a response to America's obsession with race.
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Sarnosky, Yolonda P. "Black female authors document a loss of sexual identity Jacobs, Morrison, Walker, Naylor, and Moody /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1999. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1999.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2836. Typescript. Abstract appears on leaf [ii]. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67).
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Walker, Natasha Nicole. "An erratic performance constructing racial identity and James Baldwin /." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-170016/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from title page. Margaret Harper, committee chair; Christopher Kocela, Daniel Black, committee members. Electronic text (63 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 11, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63).
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Potter, Lawrence T. "Harlem's forgotten genius : the life and works of Wallace Henry Thurman /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946287.

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Adams, Brenda Byrne. "Patterns of healing and wholeness in characterizations of women by selected black women writers." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720157.

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Some Black women writers--Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, and Alice Walker--of American fiction have written characterizations of winning women. Their characterizations include women who are capable of taking risks, making choices, and taking responsiblity for their choices. These winning women are capable of accepting their own successes and failures by the conclusions of the novels. They are characterized as dealing with devastating and traumatic personal histories in a growth-enhancing manner. Characterizations of winning women by these authors are consistently revealed through five developmental stages: conditioning, awareness, interiorizing, reintegrating, and winning. These stages contain patterns that are consistent from author to author.While conditioning and awareness of the negative influcences of conditioning are predictable, this study introduces the concept of interiorizing and reintegrating as positive steps toward becoming a winning woman. Frequent descriptions of numbness and disorientation mark the most obvious stages of interiorizing. It is not until the Twentieth Century that we see women writers using this interiorizing process as a necessary step toward growth. Surviving interiorizing, as these winning women do, leads to the essential stage of reintegrating.Interiorizing is a complete separation from social interaction; reintegrating is a gradual reattachment to social process. First, elaborate descriptions of bathing rituals affirm the importance of a woman's body to herself. Second, reintegrating involves food rituals which signal social reconnection. Celebration banquets and family recipes offer an important reminder to the winning woman that the future is built on the past. Taking the best of what has been learned from the past into the future provides strength and stability.The characterization of a winning woman stops with potential rather than completion. A winning woman must still take risks, make choices, and bear the consequences of her choices. The winning woman does not accept a diminished life of harmful conformity. She is characterized as discovering how to use choice and power. Novels included in this study are: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God; Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters; Paule Marshall's Brownstone, Brown Girl; The Chosen Place, the Timeless People; and Praisesong for the Widow; Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills; and Alice Walker's Meridian, and The Color Purple.
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Robinson, Heather Lindsey. "Ours is the Kingdom of Heaven: Racial Construction of Early American Christian Identities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849673/.

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This project interrogates how religious performance, either authentic or contrived, aids in the quest for freedom for oppressed peoples; how the rhetoric of the Enlightenment era pervades literatures delivered or written by Native Americans and African Americans; and how religious modes, such as evoking scripture, performing sacrifices, or relying upon providence, assist oppressed populations in their roles as early American authors and speakers. Even though the African American and Native American populations of early America before the eighteenth century were denied access to rights and freedom, they learned to manipulate these imposed constraints--renouncing the expectation that they should be subordinate and silent--to assert their independent bodies, voices, and spiritual identities through the use of literary expression. These performative strategies, such as self-fashioning, commanding language, destabilizing republican rhetoric, or revising narrative forms, become the tools used to present three significant strands of identity: the individual person, the racialized person, and the spiritual person. As each author resists the imposed restrictions of early American ideology and the resulting expectation of inferior behavior, he/she displays abilities within literature (oral and written forms) denied him/her by the political systems of the early republican and early national eras. Specifically, they each represent themselves in three ways: first, as a unique individual with differentiated abilities, exceptionalities, and personality; second, as a person with distinct value, regardless of skin color, cultural difference, or gender; and third, as a sanctified and redeemed Christian, guaranteed agency and inheritance through the family of God. Furthermore, the use of religion and spirituality allows these authors the opportunity to function as active agents who were adapting specific verbal and physical methods of self-fashioning through particular literary strategies. Doing so demonstrates that they were not the unrefined and unfeeling individuals that early American political and social restrictions had made them--that instead they were intellectually and morally capable of making both physical and spiritual contributions to society while reciprocally deserving to possess the liberties and freedoms denied them.
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Campbell, Andrea Kate. "Narrating other natures a third wave ecocritical approach to Toni Morrison, Ruth Ozeki, and Octavia Butler /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/a_campbell_042110.pdf.

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Sy, Kadidia. "Women's relationships female friendship in Toni Morrison's Sula and Love, Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Sefi Atta's Everything good will come /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04212008-135356/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from file title page. Renee Schatteman, committee chair; Chris Kocela, Margaret Harper, committee members. Electronic text (158 [i.e. 156] p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed 23 June 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-156).
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Books on the topic "African American authors – Juvenile literature"

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Rediger, Pat. Great African Americans in literature. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Crabtree Pub. Co, 1996.

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Rediger, Pat. Great African Americans in literature. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Crabtree Pub. Co., 1996.

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Raatma, Lucia. Alice Walker: African-American author and activist. Chanhassen, MN: Child's World, 2004.

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Parker-Rock, Michelle. Patricia and Fredrick McKissack: Authors kids love. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2008.

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Sickels, Amy. African-American writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010.

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Sickels, Amy. African-American writers. New York: Chelsea House, 2010.

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Celebrated African-American novelists. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2013.

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Shirley, David. Alex Haley: Author. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.

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Wilkinson, Brenda Scott. African American women writers. New York: Wiley, 2000.

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Hajdusiewicz, Babs Bell. Mary Carter Smith, African-American storyteller. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1995.

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Carretta, Vincent. "Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors." In A Companion to African American Literature, 9–24. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch1.

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Hanley, Ryan. "Black Authors and British National Identity, 1763–1791." In African American Literature in Transition, 1750–1800, 257–80. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108860864.017.

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Plasa, Carl. "African-American Ekphrasis and the ‘Peculiar Institution’." In Literature, Art and Slavery, 129–65. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748683543.003.0006.

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In this chapter, the emphasis falls squarely upon the ways in which African American writers have turned the ekphrastic gaze towards images that either represent the peculiar institution of American slavery directly or are closely related to it and that were all created by white Americans between 1805 and c. 1900. Examples of such a turn are certainly infrequent, if all the more important for that reason and provided here in an ekphrastic gallery of six short texts by four authors: John Edgar Wideman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Trethewey and Terrance Hayes. Despite the different perspectives from which these writers approach the same visual archive, their engagements with slavery ultimately operate along comparable lines, often taking the images that inspire them in fresh directions, placing them in new contexts or using them to generate new narratives.
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Noll, Mark A. "The African American Bible." In America's Book, 177–98. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197623466.003.0010.

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A great proportion of the literature produced by African Americans in this era, 1790–1860, dealt with religious themes; the great majority of those themes resonated with the Scriptures. Black Americans appropriated Scripture in somewhat different ways, from the first authors in the 1760s, through the expansion of literacy that followed, and with the publication of many memoirs and antislavery advocacy in the era of Frederick Douglass. Most Black deployment of Scripture had a Methodist character in foregrounding the need for individual repentance and exalting the possibility of divine redemption. It differed, however, by maintaining a steady liberationist emphasis—biblical religion not only saved for eternity but rescued in this life. The hermeneutics of Black biblical usage differed considerably from white usage, primarily because the Bible was active among Black Americans by oral transmission, a focus on narratives, and emphasis on exemplars taken from Scripture.
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"Introduction." In The Earliest African American Literatures, edited by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and Cassander L. Smith, 1–18. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469665603.003.0001.

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The introduction analyzes how, when, and in what forms those of African descent intervened in early American literature and initiated an African American literary tradition. The lens of mediation obscures, or refracts, the presence of Black Africans in early American literature, but this reader emphasizes their roles as literary figures and human agents whose actions in the material world shaped their textual presence. Recognizing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Black Africans as authors requires recognizing that authorship was and is a collaborative social process of textual production. The texts that Black Africans in colonial North America consumed and helped to produce are most frequently found in ecclesiastical or legal records, in letters or diaries, and in the newspaper. Recovering these texts from the archive invites students of early American literature to engage more fully with questions about the consciousness and subjectivity of Black Africans struggling to survive—and thrive—in colonial North America.
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Bellows, Amanda Brickell. "Radical Literature on the Eve of Emancipations." In American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination, 14–43. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655543.003.0002.

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This chapter compares antiserfdom and antislavery literature produced on the eve of the abolition of Russian serfdom and American slavery. It studies Nikolai Nekrasov’s poetry, Aleksei Pisemskii’s A Bitter Fate, Martha Griffith Browne’s fictional Autobiography of a Female Slave, and Louisa May Alcott’s short stories. With different degrees of success, these authors used similar strategies to transform public opinion toward Russian serfs and enslaved African Americans.
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Leslie, Annie Ruth, Kim Brittingham Barnett, Matasha L. Harris, and Charles Adams. "Advancing the Demarginalization of African American Students." In The Black Experience and Navigating Higher Education Through a Virtual World, 73–96. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7537-6.ch005.

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This chapter presents theoretical discussions about advancing the demarginalization of African American students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by bringing in insights from Afrocentric and symbolic-interaction perspectives. Here, the authors discuss demarginalization related to certain intra-racial and intersecting class, gender, and mental health issues emerging since COVID-19 and online learning. The ideas presented here are equally viable in student face-to-face and virtual learning environments. It begins with discussing marginalization and Afrocentric and symbolic-interaction theories. It reviews relevant literature about the history of African American education since the American Civil War, including 19th and 20th century reconstructions, Jim Crow, the rise of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the Black student campus union and Black power movements, and other relevant happenings in Black American education.
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Shonekan, Stephanie, and Adam Seagrave. "Two Experiences, One Nation." In Race and the American Story, 31–52. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197767689.003.0003.

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Abstract In this chapter, the authors reflect on the ways in which various institutional and social contexts, such as schools, neighborhoods, legal frameworks, and political systems, contribute to shape very different experiences for white and Black Americans. They connect this phenomenon to the global history of European colonialism and its effects in Nigeria, Trinidad, and elsewhere. Shonekan draws on her experience studying African and African American literature and music, particularly the music of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and his analysis of the psychological impact of colonialism. Seagrave provides an extended commentary on the question of whether American institutions, including the Constitution itself, are racist. These discussions provide a combination of the authors’ lived experiences with insights gained from their academic expertise.
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Wester, Maisha. "‘Nightmares of the Normative’: African American Gothic and the Rejection of the American Ideal." In Twentieth-Century Gothic, 273–89. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474490122.003.0018.

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This chapter explores the ways in which African American Gothic fiction began to reject notions of the idyllic heteronormative American existence, showing that it is a simplification requiring allegiance to alienating notions of race, gender, and socioeconomic class. It begins by situating the ‘Red Summer of 1919’ (during which white Americans waged open warfare on Black citizens), as a key turning point in Black Gothic literature. Nineteenth and early twentieth-century writers such as slave narrative authors wrote literature testifying to the horrors of being denied humanity and citizenship while their descendants wrote texts rooted in rejecting modern ideas of ‘progress’. Drawing it’s title from Roderick Ferguson’s ‘Nightmares of the Heteronormative’, the chapter also points to the ways in which heternormativity has been used as both bait and prison for African Americans, focussing upon Richard Wright’s ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ (1945), Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952), and Amiri Baraka’s 1966 film Dutchman.
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Luis, William. "The Afro-Latin American Novel and the Novel about Afro-Latin Americans." In The Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel, C17.P1—C17.N12. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197541852.013.17.

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Abstract This chapter discusses authors who write about Afro-Latin Americans and Afro-Latin Americans who write about people of African descent. The title reflects a cultural norm that groups all writers under a national category and considers a contemporary trend to support authors of African descent to tell their own stories. The essay beings with the Cuban antislavery narrative; it situates the enslaved poet Juan Francisco Manzano, the first and only enslaved in Latin America to write his Autobiografía, as a central pillar. It continues with an analysis of the most important white and black authors in the various countries with significant black populations in Spanish America and Spanish descendants in the United States. The study presents, analyzes, and problematizes the two perspectives mentioned in the title and how early white authors were the first to write about the black protagonist. Black authors offered a different and more personal outlook. But even so, some of them supported a national discourse that moves away from a black or African based cultural view, epitomized by the mulatto. The United States is home to the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, and it also produces a literature by and about Hispanics in Spanish and with Latinx in English. Starting in the nineteenth century, writers living in the United States wrote about enslaved people of their country of origin and considers that this other geographic space is also present in their works. It concludes with how Latinx authors, those born or raised in the United States, write about the culture of their parents and the one of their new homelands, and how Afro-Latinx authors negotiate African cultural and religious spaces and contribute to a hybrid, twenty-first century literature.
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