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Young Adult Literature for Black Lives: Critical and Storytelling Traditions from the African Diaspora

open access: yesInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2020
Academic criticism of Black African and African diaspora literature, media, and culture for youth and young adults has heretofore been largely out of the hands of scholars of African descent.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
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Stefano Luconi, Dalle piantagioni allo studio ovale. L'inserimento degli afro-americani nella politica statunitense

open access: yesIperstoria, 2014
Review of Dalle piantagioni allo studio ovale. L'inserimento degli afro-americani nella politica statunitense, by Stefano Luconi.
Sara Corrizzato
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Assemblage Point: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the American Racial / Cultural Identity Model [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2022
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly (1852) being the most powerful statement on the racial issue in the 19th century American literature, succeeded to incorporate and rethink everything that the national tradition had
Olga Yu. Panova
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To Be One with Nature

open access: yesJAm It!, 2022
Southern US literature and African American literature often speak about racialized and dismembered bodies swallowed by the earth and never retrieved; Nature, in these instances, is hostile and “white”, as even trees become problematic symbols of ...
Carlotta Livrieri
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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The Holy Land of Matrimony: The Complex Legacy of the Broomstick Wedding in American History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Many enslaved people in North America married by jumping the broomstick, but following their emancipation in 1865 most newly freed African Americans discarded the tradition.
Parry, Tyler D.
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Contributors' Notes

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2018
Contributors' Notes for Radical Teacher Issue 112.
Michael Bennett
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The First Encounter: “Negro American Literature” in the Soviet Literary Criticism of the 1920s [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2019
Soviet leaders and Comintern stressed the importance of the “Negro problem” in the struggle against American imperialism; African American literature was considered a part of the “battlefield” as well, so an ideologically bound image of “American Negro ...
Olga Yu. Panova
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African American Literature, Racial Vulnerability, and the Anthropocene

open access: yesJournal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2022
This article discusses W. E. B. Du Bois's first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), in the context of the broader debate on the role of race in the Anthropocene and in relation to Judith Butler's theory on corporeal vulnerability. Specifically,
Matthias Klestil
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Becoming warm demanders: Perspectives and practices of first-year teachers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the literature on culturally responsive pedagogy warm demanders are teachers who embrace values and enact practices that are central to their students’ success.
Acosta, Melanie M.   +3 more
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