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The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include...
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. Airing Dirty Laundry, "Distant Cousins," Addison-Wesley (1993).
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''Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.''
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. Airing Dirty Laundry, "Gwendolyn Brooks: Poet," Addison-Wesley (1993).
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The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency—indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman—but since the lead...
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. Airing Dirty Laundry, preface, Addison-Wesley (1993).
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The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the maj...
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Airing Dirty Laundry, Addison-Wesley (1993). "American Poetry: Is There a Center?" Bla...
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The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, l...
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Airing Dirty Laundry, Addison-Wesley (1993). "American Poetry: Is There a Center?" Bla...
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''Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.''
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Writin' Is Fightin,' Atheneum (1988). "America's Color Bind: The Modeling of Minoritie...
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''the hunger of this poem is legendary
it has taken in many victims
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr feet
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr legs''
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. poet. Beware: Do Not Read This Poem (l. 18-22). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others,...
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''statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports
that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared
leaving no solid clues
nor traceonly
a space
in the lives of their friends.''
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. poet. Beware: Do Not Read This Poem (l. 40-44). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others,...
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''Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.''
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Shrovetide in Old New Orleans, "Image and Money" Doubleday (1978). "Blacks Must Put 'F...
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Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based up...
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Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. God Made Alaska for the Indians, "Race War in America?" Garland Publishing (1982).
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