Biographical and critical information on contemporary African-American artists. Each entry includes birth and death dates, education, awards, and affiliations.

Revealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.

The literary expression of Afro-Americans has been scrutinized and criticized in exhaustive detail, yet historically perceived by many American and English lite

Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Fo