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ERIC Number: EJ428257
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0882-2840
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Growing Up as a Minority in America: Four African-American Writers' Testimony.
Slade, Leonard A., Jr.
ALAN Review, v18 n3 p9-11 Spr 1991
Examines works of four Black writers who speak directly to adolescents. Explores the bitterness caused by racism and social degradation in the writings of James Baldwin, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Concludes that their works reveal that the fight against injustice begins in the heart. (PRA)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Black Attitudes, Black Literature, Black Stereotypes, Black Students, Blacks, Racial Bias, Racial Discrimination, Secondary Education, Social Bias
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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