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African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
Black speculative fiction often focuses on race and the history of race relations in Western society. The history of slavery, the African diaspora, and the Civil Rights Movement sometimes influence the narrative of SF stories written by black authors. Within science fiction, the concern is that many traditional science fiction works do not ...
Per a pamphlet of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N.I.A), Garvey wrote that "Red is the color of the blood which men must shed for their redemption and liberty; black is the color ...
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology. It addresses themes and concerns of the African diaspora through technoculture and speculative fiction, encompassing a range of media and artists with a shared interest in envisioning black futures that stem from Afro-diasporic ...
One of the earliest Black classic books on this list, “The Souls of Black Folk,” is a 1903 collection of essays by Harvard-educated scholar and author W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963).
Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a Black author known for writing “Invisible Man,” the 1953 National Book Award winner and an influential work in American literature.
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]
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