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African American Children’s Literature before 1900

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Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Who Writes for Black Children?

Balancing the Books

Heart of Darkness

Fire on the Water

The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry

The Convergence

Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed

Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941

Something Akin to Freedom

Haunted Property

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Black to Nature

Paul Laurence Dunbar

New Strangers in Paradise

Street Lit

The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism

Black Bourgeois

Before Harlem

Preaching the Blues

Between the Angle and the Curve

Liberating Literature

From Mammies to Militants

The Black Pacific Narrative

American Lazarus