Black Insights: Significant Literature by Black Americans, 1760 to the Present |
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Page 177
... writer's work by lesser standards than they use for judging the work of the white writer . He insists that " bad art is bad art . " In 1965 the magazine Book Week conducted a poll among two hundred authors , critics , and editors ...
... writer's work by lesser standards than they use for judging the work of the white writer . He insists that " bad art is bad art . " In 1965 the magazine Book Week conducted a poll among two hundred authors , critics , and editors ...
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... writer makes in Europe is just how complex this fate is . America's history , her aspirations , her peculiar triumphs , her even more peculiar defeats , and her position in the world- yesterday and today — are all so profoundly and ...
... writer makes in Europe is just how complex this fate is . America's history , her aspirations , her peculiar triumphs , her even more peculiar defeats , and her position in the world- yesterday and today — are all so profoundly and ...
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... Writers Workshop , and writer Johnny Scott to testify before the Ribicoff Senate Committee on conditions in the Watts ghetto . At this precise time a committee of angry Negro citizens was protesting the filming of " Losers Weepers ...
... Writers Workshop , and writer Johnny Scott to testify before the Ribicoff Senate Committee on conditions in the Watts ghetto . At this precise time a committee of angry Negro citizens was protesting the filming of " Losers Weepers ...
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