and issues explored in this literature are the role of African Americans within the larger American society, African American culture, racism, slavery,...
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African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...
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American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part...
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There has been a significant body of African-American literature and oral tradition for centuries. African-American English began as early as the 17th century...
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groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally...
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The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance...
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of America. African-American literature emerged in the 18th century, with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved author, being the first African American to have...
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the non-written oral traditions and folk life of the African diaspora, African-American literature broke "the mystique of connection between literary authority...
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This is a timeline of African American Children's literature milestones in the United States from 1600 – present. The timeline also includes selected events...
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South African literature is the literature of South Africa, which has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda...
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literature Turkish literature Yemeni literature North American literature American literature African American literature Native American literature Southern...
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African-American folktales are the storytelling and oral history of enslaved African Americans during the 1700s-1900s. Prevalent themes in African-American...
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This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles...
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An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related topics...
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Black literature is literature created by or for Black people. For more, see: African literature African-American literature Afro-Brazilian literature Black...
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Erasure (novel) (category African-American novels)
publication and criticism of African-American literature, and was later adapted by Cord Jefferson into a film titled American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright...
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parallels between AAVE, West African languages, and English-based creole languages, instead tracing back African-American Vernacular English to diverse...
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United States portal African American Review is a scholarly aggregation of essays on African-American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and...
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Harlem Renaissance (redirect from African-American Renaissance)
Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in...
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Western canon (category Literature)
first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart helped draw attention to African literature. Nigerian...
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hypothesized that these African traditions were modified by experiences during slavery, resulting in a current African-American family structure that relies...
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Institute Children's Literature Research Collection — includes the Kerlan Collection Givens Collection of African American Literature Immigration History...
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Tensions between African American and Korean American communities in major U.S. cities gained national attention in the 1980s and 1990s, marked by events...
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. (category 21st-century African-American academics)
Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is a trustee of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He rediscovered...
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African-American dance is a form of dance that was created by Africans in the Diaspora, specifically the United States. It has developed within various...
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Saidiya Hartman (category African-American historians)
Her work focuses on African-American literature, cultural history, photography and ethics, and the intersections of law and literature. Hartman was born...
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Stereotypes of African Americans are misleading beliefs about the culture of people with partial or total ancestry from any black racial groups of Africa whose...
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List of literary awards (redirect from List of literature awards)
Award for Publishing in Africa (discontinued) Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Man Asian Literary Prize...
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addition, more female and African-American writers began to be accepted as part of Southern literature, including African Americans such as Zora Neale Hurston...
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have significant African American heritage. Historically, certain Native American tribes have had close relations with African Americans, especially in...
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