Making a Literature: Black Writing and Jim Crow (Distinguished Fellow Lecture)
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Kenneth Warren, professor of English at the University of Chicago and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow for 2010–11, examines how the rise of segregation in the late 19th century created an imperative among black writers to produce a distinctive African American literature.
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