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BL
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1046475
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b800845
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| Title & Author
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White scholars/African American texts /\ edited by Lisa A. Long.
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| Publication Statement
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New Brunswick, N.J. :: Rutgers University Press,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages)
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| ISBN
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0813535980
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: 0813535999
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: 0813537738
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: 9780813535982
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: 9780813535999
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: 9780813537733
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
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| Abstract
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The essays in this collection explore the many difficulties created by the fact that white scholars greatly outnumber black scholars in the study and teaching of African American literature. Contributors, including some of the most prominent theorists in the field as well as younger scholars, examine who is speaking, what is being spoken and what is not, and why framing African American literature in terms of an exclusive black/white racial divide is problematic and limiting. In highlighting the ""whiteness"" of some African Americanists, the collection does not imply that the teac.
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African Americans-- Historiography.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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African Americans-- Study and teaching (Higher)
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American literature-- African American authors-- Study and teaching.
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Education, Higher-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Education, Higher-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Teachers, White-- United States.
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Whites-- United States-- Intellectual life.
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African Americans-- Historiography
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African Americans-- Intellectual life
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African Americans-- Study and teaching (Higher)
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American literature-- African American authors-- Study and teaching
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Education, Higher-- Political aspects
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Education, Higher-- Social aspects
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Race relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.
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Teachers, White
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United States, Race relations.
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United States
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| Dewey Classification
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305.896/073/00711
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| LC Classification
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E184.7.W48 2005eb
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| Added Entry
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Long, Lisa A.
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