Product Description: This book examines the works of African American writers and intellectuals which defined the community through historical, economic, and social changes in the United States. Initially there is the autobiographical memory of slavery, then the fictive reinvention of slave memory...read more

Product Description: Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters...read more

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The famed political cartoonist shares reminiscences of his nearly five decades working in the nation's capital, offering anecdotes about the personalities he has met, detailing his own political views, and offering commentary on American politics. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: For Black writers, what is tradition? What does it mean to them that Western humanism has excluded Black culture? Seven noted Black writers and critics take up these and other questions in this collection of original essays, attempting to redefine humanism from a Black perspective, to free it from ethnocentrism, and to enlarge its cultural base...read more

Product Description: Book by Miller, R. Baxter.