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128:, Alabama, while she was pregnant with Harris. The concert was performed by an artist named Cordelia and Harris's mother was fond of the last syllables of the singer's name. Her first name was misprinted on the original birth certificate as "Trudy", which Harris did not discover until the mid-1970s; soon after the discovery her name was corrected to Trudier, on the document, and Harris believes her mother was the one who corrected the certificate. Her name is something she is proud of because her mother crafted her name.
140:, Alabama. She learned how to can vegetables and kill hogs to help contribute to the family’s work. The family farm was successful, but her father still had to face prejudices of the day, and was jailed for an entire year after being accused of stealing a bale of cotton. Her father died when Harris was six years old from a heart attack on September 4, 1954. After her father’s death, Unareed sold the family cotton farm and moved herself and all the kids to
144:, Alabama. Harris and her siblings attended an all-black elementary school, which took some adjusting due to negative stigmas of being from the countryside. Harris and her siblings also had to eat the provided free lunch rather than being able to buy and pick their lunch, which also separated them from other students who were in higher economic social classes.
117:. She was the sixth of nine children born to Terrell Harris Sr. and Unareed Burton Moore Harris. Harris has three older sisters: Fannie Mae, Hazel Gray, and Eva Lee. She also has two older brothers: Terrell Jr. and Willie Frank. After Harris was born, her younger siblings Peter, Eddie Lee, and Annie (Anna) Louise were born.
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University of Alabama, the Black Faculty and Staff Association established the "Dr. Trudier Harris Intercollegiate Black History Scholar Bowl". This is a yearly competition among surrounding universities in Alabama "to showcase their scholarly
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Harris participated in softball and basketball and maintained honor roll grades throughout her childhood. While the kids were in school
Unareed worked as a domestic for white families, then later as a janitor and cook at an elementary school. For the majority of Harris’ early childhood she lived on
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Fosters Ferry Road and as she grew up her family moved to a house in
Lincoln Park, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where her sister Anna still lives today. Harris’ oldest brother, Terrell, was the first in the family to attend college and he attended
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knowledge of
African American History in a variety of categories." Harris served as a University Distinguished Research Professor of English until she retired for the second time in February 2022. After her retirement, she was named a
1140:, "The Nobel Laureates of Literature: An Olympic Gathering", in connection with the Cultural Olympiad gathering of Nobel Prize winners in Atlanta in April 1995, XLIX (Spring 1995): 324–330.
356:, April 11, 2003. Selected as the inaugural text for the "One-Book, One-Community" reading project in Orange County, North Carolina, 2003–2004. Paperback edition issued Fall 2006.
214:, holding the position of J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor. Harris retired in 2009 after 27 years of teaching courses in African-American literature and folklore at the
387:, Vol. 2, ed. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 300–306; "Salting the Land but Not the Imagination: William Melvin Kelley’s A Different Drummer" in
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at the
University of Alabama. Although Harris no longer works for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or the University of Alabama, she still is an avid fan of
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1088:"The Image of Africa in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance", for the National Humanities Center online resources for high school teachers—TeacherServe, Summer 2009.
465:, Volume II, ed. Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce (Washington, D. C.: Howard University Press, 1992), pp. 831–844. Excerpt reprinted in
391:, Vol. 2, ed. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 278–82; "The Necessary Binding: Prison Experiences in Three August Wilson Plays" in
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1091:"The Trickster in African American Literature", for the National Humanities Center online resources for high school teachers—TeacherServe, Summer 2009.
897:, ed., Francis E. Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar (Denton, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1996), pp. 314–333. Reprinted in
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Harris attended the all-black Druid High School in
Tuscaloosa, where she wrote her graduating class' senior play. After high school, she attended
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English and a minor in social studies. Harris and three of her other siblings were able to receive a degree from a higher level of education.
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797:"Genre", in Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture, ed. Burt Feintuch (University of Illinois Press, 2003), pp. 99–120.
168:. She was also a student worker and served as an assistant to Dean John Rice, who is the father of future U.S. Secretary of State
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713:"Celebrating Bigamy and Other Outlaw Behaviors: Hurston, Reputation, and the Problems Inherent in Labeling Janie a Feminist", in
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865:, ed. Maryemma Graham, Sharon Pineault-Burke, and Marianna White Davis (New York and London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 210–222.
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68:1 (Winter 1994): 9–14. Invited commentary on Toni
Morrison's works, which accompanied the publication of her Nobel Lecture.
829:"The Power of Martyrdom: The Incorporation of Martin Luther King Jr. and His Philosophy into African American Literature", in
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198:, where she was the first African-American tenured professor. In 1979, she started teaching in the English department at the
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1085:"Protest Poetry", for the National Humanities Center online resources for high school teachers—TeacherServe, Fall 2009.
748:"Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters and Readers in Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues’ and Morrison's 'Recitatif
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1143:"‘This Disease Called Strength’: Some Observations on the Compensating Construction of Black Female Character",
843:"Before the Strength, the Pain: Portraits of Elderly Black Women in Early 20th Century Anti-Lynching Plays", in
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89:(born February 27, 1948) is an American literary scholar, author, writing consultor, and educator. She is a
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727:"Fear of Family, Fear of Self: Black Southern 'Othering' in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits", in
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Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
1015:, edited by Louis Rubin, Jr., Blyden Jackson, et al. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1985), pp. 566–577.
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The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
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1:4 (Summer 1995): 457–465. Reprinted in the Fifteenth Anniversary Issue of Southern Cultures (2008).
1171:"‘Africanizing the Audience’: Zora Neale Hurston's Transformation of White Folks in Mules and Men",
1064:"Does Northern Travel Relieve Slavery? 'Vacations' in Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Wench." Forthcoming in
738:, ed. John Edgar Tidwell and Cheryl R. Ragar (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007), 32–38.
191:, where she received her master's and doctoral degrees in American Literature and Folklore in 1973
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1101:"Pigmentocracy", for the National Humanities Center online courses for high school teachers, 2008.
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and Chester J. Fontenot (Greenwood, Florida: Penkevill Publishing Company, 1983), pp. 89–109.
1098:", for the National Humanities Center online courses in African American Literature, Spring 2009.
685:"African American Lives: Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver". In
1299:"Folklore in the Fiction of Alice Walker—A Perpetuation of Historical and Literary Traditions",
976:"From Exile to Asylum: Religion and Community in the Writings of Contemporary Black Women", in
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745:, ed. Neal A. Lester & Maureen Daly Goggin (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 1–5.
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Black Southern Voices: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Critical Essays
1260:"‘I wish I was a poet’: The Character as Artist in Alice Childress’ Like One of the Family",
1078:"The Terrible Pangs of Compromise: Racial Reconciliation in African American Literature", in
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794:, ed. Carleen Brice (Beacon Press, 2003), 38–44. Reprinted in British edition, Fall 2004.
756:, ed. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006), 103–120.
980:, ed. Mary Lynn Broe and Angela Ingram (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1989), pp. 151–169.
840:, ed. Debra Walker King (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 178–185.
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Harris became bored during retirement and decided to join the English department at the
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787:, ed. Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman (Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 413–418.
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Reprints: "Transformations of the Land in Randall Kenan’s ‘The Foundations of the Earth
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After Harris graduated from Ohio State University, she was hired as a professor at the
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1289:, eds Fred L. Standley and Nancy V. Burt (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988), pp. 204–216.
1239:"Tiptoeing Through Taboo: Incest in Alice Walker’s ‘The Child Who Favored Daughter’",
773:"Preface" to three-volume set on the Harlem Renaissance (Gale Research Company, 2003).
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After receiving her undergraduate degree Harris attended a summer exchange program at
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692:"Untangling History, Dismantling Fear: Teaching Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta", for
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in Tuscaloosa and was highly active on campus. She became president of her sorority,
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Reading Contemporary African American Drama: Fragments of History, Fragments of Self
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Biographical Headnotes for "James Baldwin" and "Toni Morrison" for the D. C. Heath
815:, ed. Keith S. Clark (University of Illinois Press, 2001), pp. 37–53. Reprinted in
741:"Trapped in Lines and Language: Distorted Selves in Personal Ads", Introduction to
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1313:"Ceremonial Fagots: Lynching and Burning Rituals in Black American Literature",
763:, ed. Fiona Mills and Keith B. Mitchell (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. x–xiv.
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Her early childhood years were spent on her 80-acre family owned cotton farm in
966:, ed. Susan Koppelman (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), pp. 170–73.
807:"This Disease Called Strength: The Masculine Manifestation in Raymond Andrews’
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1178:"Moms Mabley: A Study in Humor, Role Playing, and the Violation of Taboo", in
1032:"The South As Woman: Chimeric Images of Emasculation in Just Above My Head",
983:"Reconnecting Fragments: Afro-American Folk Tradition in The Bluest Eye", in
955:, ed. Mario Azevedo (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1992), pp. 331–342.
948:, ed. Mario Azevedo (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1993), pp. 103–118.
819:, Vol. 1, ed. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 46–54.
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Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works
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890:, ed. Dolan Hubbard (University of Tennessee Press, 1997), pp. 105–115.
754:
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays
1150:"Adventures in a ‘Foreign Country’: African American Humor and the South",
872:, ed. Olga Barrios and Bernard W. Bell (Leon, Spain: 1997), pp. 25–32.
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Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals
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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature
369:(The University of Georgia Press, 2002; 12 previously unpublished essays).
1185:"From Victimization to Free Enterprise: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple",
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Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, and Identity in the 21st Century
266:
Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) Fellowship at UNC (Fall, 2002)
1228:"A Different Image of the Black Woman", review/article of Dorothy West's
973:, ed. Keneth Kinnamon (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 63–84.
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and held the position of J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor at
1047:, ed. R. Baxter Miller (University of Kentucky Press, 1981), pp. 50–74.
847:, ed. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (New York: Garland, 1999), pp. 25–42.
833:, ed. Brian Ward (University Press of Florida, 2001), pp. 273–291.
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William C. Friday/Class of 1986 Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)
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1253:"From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature",
469:, ed. David R. Roediger (New York: Schocken: 1998), pp. 299–304.
875:"What Women? What Canon?: African American Women and the Canon", in
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A Student's Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present
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The Contemporary African American Literary Canon: Theory and Pedagogy
427:(University of Tennessee Press, 1991). A section of Chapter Six, on
1547:"An Interview with Professor Trudier Harris – Department of English"
882:"Before the Stigma of Race: Authority and Witchcraft in Ann Petry's
1306:"Ellison’s 'Peter Wheatstraw': His Basis in Black Folk Tradition",
1196:, 18 (Winter 1984): 155–161. Reprinted in Gale Research's Series,
987:, ed. Nellie Y. McKay (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988), pp. 68–76.'
861:"Lying Through Our Teeth?: The Quagmire of Cultural Diversity", in
461:(Indiana University Press, 1984). Chapter 7 has been reprinted in
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783:"Lynching and Burning Rituals in African-American Literature", in
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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South
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SEC Faculty Achievement Award for the University of Alabama (2018)
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Harris was named by her mother after a concert she went to see at
101:. Harris is a member of the Wintergreen Women Writers Collective.
1203:"The Women of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor", review/article,
1043:"Three Black Women Writers and Humanism: A Folk Perspective", in
879:, ed. Jeanne Reesman (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997).
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From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature
1264:, 14, i (Special issue on literary theory; Spring, 1980): 24–30.
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Media, Culture, and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle
734:"Almost—But Not Quite—Bluesmen in Langston Hughes's Poetry", in
414:(University of Georgia Press, 1996). (Lamar Memorial Lectures)
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Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
941:, ed. Lillie P. Howard (Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 31–42.
722:
Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers
463:
The New Cavalcade: African American Writing 1760 to the Present
1133:(19:2) on Emerging Black Women Writers (Spring 1996): 232–238.
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Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers
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Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers
836:"Afterword: The Unbroken Circle of Assumptions", afterword to
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Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers
506:(New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2007—with Jennifer Larson).
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magazine as one of its "Outstanding Academic Titles" of 2009.
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UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005)
183:, which inspired her to go onto graduate school. She attended
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The University of Alabama Black Faculty and Staff Association
1419:"Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South"
1164:"Toni Morrison: Solo Flight Through Literature and History",
953:
Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora
717:, ed. John W. Lowe (New York: MLA Publications, 2009), 67–80.
1669:"W&M's first tenured African-American professor honored"
729:
Women & Others: Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Empire
562:
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
1497:
Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
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Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
564:(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; November 1994).
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
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Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
335:(The Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Selected by
1136:"The Worlds That Toni Morrison Made" for special issue of
915:"Escaping Slavery But Not Its Images"—essay on Beloved in
893:"The Yellow Rose of Texas: A Different Cultural View", in
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Honey Hush: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
770:, ed. Anand Prahlad (Greenwood, 2005), 991–993; 1403–1404.
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Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White
433:"Beloved, she's mine": Essays Sur Beloved de Toni Morrison
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C.S.A (Confederate States of America); article/review in
1071:"Nikki Giovanni: Literary Survivor Across Centuries," in
1022:(Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985), pp. 283–290.
1008:(Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1986), pp. 130–139.
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Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice
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Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940
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South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature
934:, second rev. ed. (1993), pp. 2614–2615, 2872–2876.
868:"What is Africa to African American Women Writers?", in
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The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology
1029:(Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985), pp. 66–79.
800:"Conjuring", "Lynching", "Lynch-Law", and "Voodoo" for
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Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes
1246:"A Spiritual Journey: Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho",
1111:"William Melvin Kelley’s Real Live, Invisible South",
958:"Introduction to Alice Childress' 'In the Laundry Room
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Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage
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In 2018, College of William & Mary awarded her an
1118:"Porch-Sitting as a Creative Southern Tradition", in
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Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present
912:, ed. Marilyn Elkins (Garland, 1994), pp. 49–67.
895:
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
1221:"Almost Family, by Roy Hoffman", review/article for
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Voices From Home: The North Carolina Prose Anthology
1011:"Black Writers in a Changed Landscape, Since 1950",
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Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond
352:(memoir; Beacon Press, 2003). Excerpt reprinted in
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Clarence E. Cason Award in Nonfiction Writing (2018)
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
1281:"The Eye as Weapon in If Beale Street Could Talk",
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766:"Porch Sitters" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas" for
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The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
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National Humanities Center Fellowship for 2018–2019
1210:"No Outlet for the Blues: Silla Boyce’s Plight in
780:, ed. Lovalerie King (New York: Peter Lang, 2003).
776:"The Second Teacher in the Classroom", Preface to
621:New Essays on Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain
263:Research and Study Leave at UNC for Spring of 2005
1320:"Violence in The Third Life of Grange Copeland",
1267:"Chesnutt's Frank Fowler: A Failure of Purpose?"
1192:"On The Color Purple, Stereotypes, and Silence",
858:(New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), pp. 162–168.
425:Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison
307:Depictions of Home in African American Literature
152:in 1962 on an academic and athletic scholarship.
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708:Cambridge History of African American Literature
944:"Literature in Kenya" (with James Cornell), in
877:Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers
870:Contemporary Literature of the African Diaspora
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761:After the Pain: Critical Essays on Gayl Jones
743:Racialized Politics of Desire in Personal Ads
1774:Ohio State University Graduate School alumni
1157:"Genre"—for "Keywords" special issue of the
951:"African-American Literature: A Survey", in
1729:21st-century African-American women writers
1714:20th-century African-American women writers
1285:, 5, iii (Fall, 1978): 54–66. Reprinted in
946:Kenya: The Land, The People, and The Nation
551:(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
446:Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin
216:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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99:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1450:"The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective"
1343:"Harris, Trudier 1948- | Encyclopedia.com"
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813:Contemporary Black Men’s Fiction and Drama
785:A Companion to African-American Philosophy
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1292:"Telephone Pranks: A Thriving Pastime",
1152:Southern Humor Issue of Southern Cultures
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969:"Native Sons and Foreign Daughters", in
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699:"Afterword: The Complexities of Home",
448:(University of Tennessee Press, 1985).
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706:"History as Fact and Fiction" for the
634:Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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1243:, 28, iii (Autumn, 1982): 495–505.
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927:(Amistad, 1993), pp. 330–341.
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1296:, 12, i (Summer, 1978): 138–145.
1287:Critical Essays on James Baldwin
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985:Critical Essays on Toni Morrison
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