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  2. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives.

  3. African-American English - Wikipedia

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    Older or earlier African-American English refers to a set of many heterogeneous varieties studied and reconstructed by linguists as theoretically spoken by the first African Americans and African slaves in British America and, later, the United States. Of primary interest is the direct theoretical predecessor to AAVE.

  4. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.

  5. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    e. African-American Vernacular English [a] ( AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4] Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more ...

  6. Harlem Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a ...

  7. Tyrian purple - Wikipedia

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    The Royal purple or Imperial purple was probably used until the time of Augustine of Hippo (354–430) and before the demise of the Roman Empire. Dye chemistry [ edit ] Variations in colours of "Tyrian purple" from different snails are related to the presence of indigo dye (blue), 6-bromoindigo (purple), and the red 6,6'-dibromoindigo.

  8. Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created several constructed languages, mostly related to his fictional world of Middle-earth.Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling his idea of mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens.

  9. History of literature - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces. Not all writings constitute literature.