african american authors

A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race.

A compilation of more than 230 speeches by over 130 prominent African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans from the late 1700's through early 1995, and includes a narrative of each speaker.

A collection of short stories by African-American authors.

Collection of twenty-eight critical and biographical essays on African-American writers, ranging from slave narrators to contemporary feminist authors.

Forty-seven African-American women provide their personal stories of mother-daughter relationships in poetry, essay, and personal narrative.

Contains fifty-two alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about significant African-American authors, each with a biographical overview, a survey of principal writings, an assessment of the subject's work as a whole, and a bibliography; and includes three additional topical essays, and an index.

Contains 22 pieces of literature by African-American writers such as Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes.

Guide to 200 years of African-American literature featuring critical summaries and descriptions of major works, facts, and dates of authorship.

Presents more than four hundred biographical entries on twentieth-century black writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

A "choreo-poem" reflecting the views of a black American woman about the women of her race.