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Essays, biographies, speeches, letters, plays, poems, and folk literature reflect the literary, intellectual, and social history of Black Americans from 1800 to the present
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For courses focusing on African American Writers. These courses are offered in English Departments, Ethnic Studies Departments, and African-American Studies Departments. This comprehensive collection of Afro-American literature – from its beginnings to the 1970s – provides a generous selection of autobiographies, essays, speeches, letters, political pamphlets, histories, journals, and folk literature as well as poems, plays, and stories – all chosen for their artistic and social significance. A carefully structured organization and the scope and diversity of selections make the anthology suitable to a variety of approaches – chronological, by topic, by theme, or by genre.
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