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8 Articles Tagged african american literature

Literature
November 20 2020

Remembering William Melvin Kelley, author of A DIFFERENT DRUMMER

Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University Anthony Reed remembers William Melvin Kelley.   William Melvin Kelley is often described as a “lost” or “forgotten” author. Those who needed to know about him have always had a way of finding him. As a young writer, interested in fiction and poetry, I knew a lot about

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Remembering William Melvin Kelley, author of A DIFFERENT DRUMMER

Literature
November 20 2020
Literature
September 24 2020

Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her award-winning novel Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.   Transcendent Kingdom Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and

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Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s powerful follow-up to Homegoing

Literature
September 24 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
August 3 2020

Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories

Founded in 1994, Riverhead Books publishes bestselling literary fiction and quality nonfiction. Throughout its history, Riverhead has been dedicated to publishing extraordinary groundbreaking, unique writers including Danielle Evans, Danzy Senna, and James McBride. Collected here are some works from Black writers published by Riverhead. Their stories articulate the Black experience in America and give voice

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Riverhead Recommends: Black Voices and Stories

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
August 3 2020
General Humanities & Social Sciences
July 29 2020

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. Black Lives Matter. Black Voices Matter. Black Stories Matter. This month we’re sharing a few of the works by Black authors we have been learning from lately. Let us know on social media the Black voices and stories you’re reading this month (we’re @PenguinClassics everywhere). Nonfiction—History: The

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A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

General Humanities & Social Sciences
July 29 2020
Humanities & Social Sciences
June 8 2020

Penguin Presents Classics in African American Literature

Because what you read matters. Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Presented here are some

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Penguin Presents Classics in African American Literature

Humanities & Social Sciences
June 8 2020
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 8 2020

Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Nickel Boys. This is his second Pulitzer Prize (his novel The Underground Railroad won in 2017) and he is only the fourth writer—alongside Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike—to win two Pulitzer Prizes each in the Fiction category. Winner, ALA Alex Award Winner,

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Colson Whitehead has won his second Pulitzer Prize for THE NICKEL BOYS

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 8 2020
Humanities & Social Sciences
August 1 2019

Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad received glowing critical reception upon its publication, earning him the National Book Award and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His highly anticipated follow-up novel The Nickel Boys faced the threat of being overshadowed by its predecessor, but has quickly earned a spotlight of its own. We’ve put together a

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Interviews, Reviews, and News: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Humanities & Social Sciences
August 1 2019
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 17 2019

FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Washington Black follows “Wash” Black, an eleven-year-old field slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. When Wash’s old master dies, the plantation’s already dire living conditions immediately worsen. Wash is then selected to become a manservant to his new master’s brother, a man who, as it turns out, is not only an abolitionist, but an inventor,

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FROM THE PAGE: Washington Black

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences
May 17 2019
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