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African American Liter Final
African American literature final exam slides
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English
Undergraduate 4
04/27/2007

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Charles Chestnutt
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"The Goophered Grapevine" and "the Wife of His Youth" was the first African American Writer of Ficition to enlist the white-controlled publishing industry in the service of his social message.
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W.E.B. Dubois
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Souls of Black Folk, wrote the Crisis
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James Weldon Johnson
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"Lift Every Voice and Sing" (unoffical negro national anthem) and "Sence You Went Away" Book of African American Poetry (1921) seminal book that began the harlem Renissance was the organizer for NAACP.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar(Dialect)
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The Poet Laureate of the Negro race
"We Wear the Mask", "The Haunted Oak"," Sympathy"
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Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson
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New orleans poet "wrote I Sit and Sew" was married to paul laurence dunbar.
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William S. Braithwaite
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Concentrated an European Poetry. wrote "The Watchers"
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Angelina Weld Grimke
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Tenebris
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Alain Locke
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The New Negro
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Georgia Douglas Johnson
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"I Want to Die While You Love Me"
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"Goophered Grapevine"
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characters Annie- wife of , Julius McAdoo- is the black man- henry- slave that eat the grapes.
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"the wife of his Youth
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Sam Taylor/ Sam Ryder, Liza Jane, Mrs. Molly Dixon, Blue Vein Society
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double consciousness
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term used by Du Bois defined both the crux of black americans stuggle to identify themselves and the crucible in which thier African and American Identities could be merged into a unity of which the nation could be proud of.
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"Souls of Black Folk"
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A collection of essays on African American History, sociology, religion, politics and music.
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Claude Mckay
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"harlem Shadows" United dialect and european verse "If we Must Die" "the white house" and Home to Harlem.
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Home to Harlem
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First African American novel to become a best seller.
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Zora Neale Hurston
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"Sweat" Their Eyes were Watching God and the guilded six bits.
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"Sweat"
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Delia Jones, Sykes Jones, Bertha, Joe Clark,
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Their Eyes were Watching God
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Janie Crawford,Tea Cake, Pheoby Watson.
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Jean Toomer
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Cane book with blood burning moon was pbs pinchbacks grandson (a louisiana politican).
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The Gilded six-bits
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missie may,joe, otis slemmons
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blood burning moon
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louisa, tom burwell the black man, bob stone the white man.
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sterling brown
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"odyssey of big boy" and "Tin roof blues"
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Arna bontemps
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From Alexandria, La. Wrote " A summer Tragedy"
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"A summer tragedy"
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Jeff patton, jennie patton, delia morre, and old man stevenson.
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Langston Hughes
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Father of the harlem renaissance"the negro speaks of rivers" "homesick blues" "ballad of the landlord" "harlem" Mulatto" Homesick blues"
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Countee Cullen
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Married Nina Yolanda Dubois. Wrote "yet do i marvel" "saturday's Child" " to "John Keats, Poet at Springtime"
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Melvin Tolson
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"the Birth of John Henry" "Satchmo" "ex Judge at the bar" Has a Son that teaches at SU!.
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Richard Wright
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Wrote Native Son and Black boy
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Robert Hayden
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"Soledad" Double entendre (double meaning), imagination
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Ralpoh Ellison
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"Invisible Man" "battle Royal"
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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"Sadie and Maude" "we real Cool" "the Vacant Lot"
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James baldwin
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"sonny's blues"
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sonny's blues
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sonny, isabel, grace, creole
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Margaret Walker
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"for my people"
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Ernest Gaines
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"the sky is gray"
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"the sky is gray"
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James, Octavia, Rosemary, Etienne bayonne, Mr. Bassett, Dr. Robillard, Helena, Alnest
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naturalism
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with scientific
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Core meaning
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The meaning of a poem
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