Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970The author discusses how he became a successful writer and analyzes contemporary black writers, including Ishmael Reed, Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison |
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| Title | Being & Race: Black Writing Since 1970 Volume 537 of Midland books |
| Author | Charles Richard Johnson |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 5, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0253311659, 9780253311658 |
| Length | 132 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / African American Literary Criticism / American / General |
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