LITERARY CRITICISM / African American & Black

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper examines Richard Wright’s novels through a queer lens. Drawing from my Master’s dissertation on Minority Empowerment, it explores how queerness shapes the experience of living as a black individual under Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan in America. The aim is to demonstrate how Wright's work illuminates empowerment for marginalized minorities in oppressive contexts. By queering contemporary minority iss…

Reference · Wikidata

Americans with sub-Saharan African ancestry

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

African Americans or Black Americans, also formerly called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group. As defined by the United States census, they are Americans who have ancestry from "any of the Black racial groups of Africa". African Americans constitute the third-largest racial and ethnic group in the U.S., following White Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans. The term "African American" gene…

Book · DOAB

Across more than two centuries Afro-America has created a huge and dazzling variety of literary self-expression. Designs of Blackness provides less a narrative literary history than, precisely, a series of mappings—each literary-critical and comparative while at the same time offering cultural and historical context. This carefully re-edited version of the 1998 publication opens with an estimation of earliest Africa…

Full text · Open Library

A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in black feminist literary criticism. Published between the release of her second landmark book Black Feminist Criticism and her death, these writings include eloquent reviews, evaluations of black feminist criticism as a discipline…

Image · DPLA