ART / African American & Black

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The ripple effects of gun violence are far reaching, particularly for children impacted by this trauma. Many of the available sources of mental health support in the wake of gun violence do not address disrupted sleep, which commonly develops as a consequence of loss. We recruited adults for focus groups who are caregivers to a child or young adult impacted by loss due to gun violence from the Victim Support …

Reference · Wikidata

body of literature by Americans of African descent

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American to publish a book of poetry, which was published in 1773. Her collection was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. Olaudah Equiano was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of O…

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Book · DOAB

From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts Movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, A…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Photograph of the opening event for the exhibition "Black Art-Ancestral Legacy: The African Impulse in African-American Art," December 3, 1989-February 25, 1990, held at the Dallas Museum of Art.