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The signifying monkey
The signifying monkey

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The black Africans who survived the dreaded "Middle Passage" from the west coast of Africa to the New World did not sail...

1988 4 ed.
The African-American century
The African-American century

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

W. E. B. Du Bois was the greatest African-American intellectual figure of the twentieth century and one of the most infl...

2000 4 ed.
Black Genius
Black Genius

by Bell Hooks

A dozen years ago, the independent black film movement was locked in the uphill battle that has been its lot since the b...

1999 3 ed.
African American rhetoric(s)
African American rhetoric(s)

by Elaine B. Richardson, Ronald L. Jackson

IN LANGSTON HUGHES'S SHORT STORY "THE BLUES I'M PLAYING," Oceola, the main character, ultimately resists the attempts of...

2003 3 ed.
Transcending the talented tenth
Transcending the talented tenth

by Joy James

Referring to a select castle, C. L. R. James wrote pessimistically about the possibilities of American intellectuals to ...

1996 7 ed.
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

by Harold Cruse

In 1940, as one of my first acts in the pursuit of becoming a more "social" being, I joined a YMCA amateur drama group i...

1967 14 ed.