During the period after world war one several black writers began to publish their work that "differed significantly from either the Chesnutt or the Dunbar traditions "in black literature. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black rural south to create a brilliant study of race and gender in which a woman finds her true identity. The Harlem Renaissance changed forever the dynamics of African Ame...

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She attended the Academy for Negro Youth, a school run by her uncle, until the age of 13, and then found local work in a Quaker household, where she had access to a varied amount of literature. ... After reading this African American Literature piece, it showed me the horrible conditions of the slaves were and which pain and sorrow they had to live with. These past few weeks, I have be studying and analyzing African American Literature in a different perspective. ... Not only did it teach me, it made me respect African American literature. ... Slave and ex-slave narratives are important not o...

• Word Count: 748
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• Grade Level: High School

It is no surprise then that the study of the most marginalized group to date, black enslaved women, had little to no influence in informing historical perspectives on slavery for many years. They were essentially mute in terms of cultivating the greater portion of traditional literature regarding the topic. ... In this essay I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. Initial literature on enslaved black women analyzes stereotypes constructed of African women brought to the new world. ... Over the course of the pas...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... The Harlem Renaissance is a term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City. ... He was a student at Cooper Union in New York and pursued independent studies at Boothbay Art Colony in Maine. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead of focusing on his studies, he visited Chinatown and Harlem, where he felt welcome. ... He then began greatly influencing society with his works of literature. ... Over the next few years, Hughes wrote many books, recorded a jazz album, and wrote many other works of literature (Harper 4). ...

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Frazier's study led him to the significant of "Negro Business" and its impact on the black middle class. ... The policy of the Rosenwald Fund was to back aspiring Negroes in the fields of art, literature, science and in the teaching profession. ... They were self-conscious of their "culture" which consisted of the enjoyment of English and in Louisiana, French classical literature music. ...

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The story tells of Jones, and his studying days at Princeton, and then his return home to Altamaha Georgia. ... John was under the impression, one that he got when he was studying at Princeton, that he could return home and make a difference for the other African Americans in his town. ... This work became a mold that later influenced African American politics and literature, and still is rever ...

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Family life in the store included disciplined study of arithmetic; leisurely reading of novels, poetry, and Shakespeare; and lessons on deportment and avoidance of trouble with whites. ... Then Momma introduced her to Bertha Flowers, a beautiful and educated black woman who brought Maya out of her cocoon by giving her special attention that focused on love of the human voice in the recitation of literature. ...

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James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. He was born August 2, 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones. Baldwin's mother never told him the name of his biological father. Emma Jones left Baldwin's father when Baldwin was a young child because of his father's us...

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• Grade Level: High School