Category: oxford american

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“Rediscovering Frank Yerby” Introduction

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If you have been following my blog over the past few years, you have seen a lot of my work on Frank Yerby. That work has led to the publication of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays, a collection of essays that seeks to, as the title says, rediscover and reorient Yerby within the African American and American literary tradition. Pubisher’s Weekly review of the … Read More “Rediscovering Frank Yerby” Introduction

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+ gwendolyn brooks, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, jennifer c. james, joe louis, nikky finney, oxford american, pearl harbor, world war ii

Dorie Miller, Joe Louis, and World War II

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Last week, we remembered December 7, 1941, and that commemoration made me think about the ways that the government used African Americans, during World War II, to boost morale and support the war effort. Two instances of the government’s deployment of African Americans in “propaganda” posters comes to mind: Dorie Miller and Joe Louis.   When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Dorie Miller served … Read More Dorie Miller, Joe Louis, and World War II

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