...This chapter considers the outcomes of some interactions among black South African and African American writers discussed in preceding chapters, but “updated” here in the context of the 1980s. It explores how earlier transnational engagements led to a series of subsequent texts and interpersonal...

... Group SSWG Waller Fats Bronzeville Black Belt South Side Stroll district African American artists Richard Wright Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks African American musicians African American writers The South Side of Chicago was dubbed the Black Belt during the late teens. Crowds of people...

... historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance....

... students were exposed to numerous African American writers and filmmakers. Although this chapter addresses formidable roadblocks to cross-racial empathy, this comparative study of non-empathetic versus empathetic viewers suggests that white ways of seeing, particularly among young adults, are open...

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