African American literature is an extremely dense and rich form of literature that contains many types of similar tropes. These tropes can be seen throughout many of African American works of literature. ... Double-Consciousness Double-consciousness is a major theme that courses through many African American literature works. ... This idea of double-consciousness comes through in almost any African American work of literature. ... Like African Americans, these natives search for identity and live with double-consciousness throughout their lives. ...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ... Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. ... Langston Hughes was one of the poets who published many works of literature during this time....

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