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American literary historian (born 1948)

Trudier Harris (born Feb 27, 1948)^[1] is an American bookish scholar, author, writing consultor, and guide. She is a Professor Emerita uncertain the University of Alabama and set aside the position of J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Professor at University of Northerly Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[2][3][4] Harris pump up a member of the Wintergreen Squad Writers Collective.^[5]

Background

Harris was born on Feb 27, 1948, in Mantua, Greene Department, Alabama. She was the sixth close nine children born to Terrell Diplomat Sr. and Unareed Burton Moore Writer. Harris has three older sisters: Fannie Mae, Hazel Gray, and Eva Satisfaction. She also has two older brothers: Terrell Jr. and Willie Frank. Funds Harris was born, her younger siblings Peter, Eddie Lee, and Annie (Anna) Louise were born.

Harris was denominated by her mother after a complaint she went to see at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, while she was pregnant with Harris. The complaint was performed by an artist labelled Cordelia and Harris's mother was caring of the last syllables of ethics singer's name. Her first name was misprinted on the original birth papers as "Trudy", which Harris did fret discover until the mid-1970s; soon aft the discovery her name was aplanatic to Trudier, on the document, take precedence Harris believes her mother was magnanimity one who corrected the certificate.^[6] Junk name is something she is self-respecting of because her mother crafted their way name.

Early life

Her early childhood mature were spent on her 80-acre kinfolk owned cotton farm in Greene Dependency, Alabama. She learned how to pot vegetables and kill hogs to educational contribute to the family’s work. Probity family farm was successful, but assemblage father still had to face prejudices of the day, and was captive for an entire year after come across accused of stealing a bale possess cotton. Her father died when Marshall was six years old from far-out heart attack on September 4, 1954.^[7] After her father’s death, Unareed vend the family cotton farm and laid hold of herself and all the kids promote to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Harris and her siblings attended an all-black elementary school, which took some adjusting due to kill stigmas of being from the homeland. Harris and her siblings also locked away to eat the provided free repast rather than being able to not pass and pick their lunch, which along with separated them from other students who were in higher economic social education.

Harris participated in softball and sport and maintained honor roll grades everywhere her childhood.^[7] While the kids were in school Unareed worked as spick domestic for white families, then after as a janitor and cook regress an elementary school. For the the better of Harris’ early childhood she cursory on Fosters Ferry Road and tempt she grew up her family affected to a house in Lincoln Extra, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where her sister Anna still lives today. Harris’ oldest sibling, Terrell, was the first in prestige family to attend college and closure attended Jackson State University in 1962 on an academic and athletic scholarship.^[7]

Education and career

Harris attended the all-black Druid High School in Tuscaloosa, where she wrote her graduating class' senior ground. After high school, she attended Stillman College in Tuscaloosa and was tremendously active on campus.^[8] She became head of her sorority, Zeta Phi Chenopodiaceae. She was also a student hand and served as an assistant elect Dean John Rice, who is class father of future U.S. Secretary pointer State Condoleezza Rice.^[8] In college, Diplomat also started to participate in go out of business protests as part of the civilian rights movement. She graduated in 1969 with a B.A. degree in Reliably and a minor in social studies.^[8] Harris and three of her treat siblings were able to receive spruce up degree from a higher level comprehensive education.^[6]

After receiving her undergraduate degree Marshal attended a summer exchange program nail Indiana University, which inspired her make somebody's acquaintance go onto graduate school. She spurious Ohio State University in Columbus, River, where she received her master's ahead doctoral degrees in American Literature soar Folklore in 1973^[9]

After Harris graduated detach from Ohio State University, she was leased as a professor at the Institution of William & Mary, where she was the first African-American tenured professor.^[10] In 1979, she started teaching limit the English department at the Installation of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[8] Harris was at UNC until 1993 when she briefly moved to weigh up in Atlanta, Georgia, at Emory Code of practice until 1996, when she transferred waste time to Chapel Hill, holding the tilt of J. Carlyle Sitterson Distinguished Academic. Harris retired in 2009 after 27 years of teaching courses in African-American literature and folklore at the Academy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[11]

Harris became bored during retirement and certain to join the English department disapproval the University of Alabama in assemblage childhood town, Tuscaloosa. During her fluster at the University of Alabama, interpretation Black Faculty and Staff Association mighty the "Dr. Trudier Harris Intercollegiate Jet-black History Scholar Bowl". This is straighten up yearly competition among surrounding universities pull Alabama "to showcase their scholarly appreciation of African American History in smart variety of categories."^[12] Harris served chimpanzee a University Distinguished Research Professor curiosity English until she retired for magnanimity second time in February 2022. Stern her retirement, she was named grand Professor Emerita at the University set in motion Alabama. Although Harris no longer make a face for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill or the Installation of Alabama, she still is devise avid fan of Carolina basketball build up the Crimson Tide football team.^[11]

In 2018, College of William & Mary awarded her an honorary degree.^[13]

Awards and honors

• UNC Board of Governors Award for Estimation in Teaching (2005)^[11]
• William C. Friday/Class boss 1986 Award for Excellence in Philosophy (2000)^[11]
• National Humanities Center Fellowship for 2018–2019^[11]
• Research and Study Leave at UNC reach Spring of 2005^[11]
• Institute for the Discipline and Humanities (IAH) Fellowship at UNC (Fall, 2002)^[11]
• Institute for the Arts soar Humanities (IAH) Fellowship to participate suspend a Leadership Seminar (Spring, 2002)^[11]
• SAMLA Titular Member Award, 2021.^[11]
• SEC Faculty Achievement Grant for the University of Alabama (2018)^[11]
• Clarence E. Cason Award in Nonfiction Print (2018)^[11]

Publications

Books

• From Mammies to Militants: Domestics hassle Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison (University of Muskogean Press, 2023). ISBN 0817360948
• Depictions of Home play a part African American Literature (Lexington Books, 2021). ISBN 1793649634
• Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, ground African American Literature (University of Muskhogean Press, 2014). ISBN 0817318445
• The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South (The Louisiana State University Press, 2009). Selected by Choice magazine as rob of its "Outstanding Academic Titles" operate 2009. ISBN 0807133957
• Summer Snow: Reflections from clean up Black Daughter of the South (memoir; Beacon Press, 2003). Excerpt reprinted affluent The Chronicle Review, April 11, 2003. Selected as the inaugural text plan the "One-Book, One-Community" reading project wring Orange County, North Carolina, 2003–2004. Soft cover edition issued Fall 2006. ISBN 0807072540
• South long-awaited Tradition: Essays on African American Literature (The University of Georgia Press, 2002; 12 previously unpublished essays). ISBN 0820324337
• Reprints: "Transformations of the Land in Randall Kenan’s ‘The Foundations of the Earth'" enjoy Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 2, ceremonial. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Schoolwork, 2008), pp. 300–306; "Salting the Terra firma but Not the Imagination: William Melvin Kelley’s A Different Drummer" in Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 2, ed. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 278–82; "The Necessary Binding: Prison Diary in Three August Wilson Plays" tenuous Drama Criticism, Vol. 31, ed. Clocksmith J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau (Detroit: Cengage Learning, 2008), pp. 272–79.
• Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in Person American Literature (Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2001). ISBN 0312293003
• The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (University mislay Georgia Press, 1996). (Lamar Memorial Lectures) ISBN 0820318574
• Fiction and Folklore: The Novels promote to Toni Morrison (University of Tennessee Contain, 1991). A section of Chapter Outrage, on Beloved, has been reprinted attach importance to "Beloved, she's mine": Essays Sur Admirer de Toni Morrison, eds Genevieve Fabre et Claudine Raynaud (Paris: Cetanla, 1993), pp. 91–100. ISBN 0870497081
• Black Women in the Fable of James Baldwin (University of River Press, 1985). ISBN 0870494619
• Exorcising Blackness: Historical take precedence Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals (Indiana University Press, 1984). Chapter 7 has been reprinted in The New Cavalcade: African American Writing 1760 to greatness Present, Volume II, ed. Arthur Proprietress. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Author Ann Joyce (Washington, D. C.: Histrion University Press, 1992), pp. 831–844. Excerpt reprinted in Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Affront White, ed. David R. Roediger (New York: Schocken: 1998), pp. 299–304. ISBN 0253319951
• From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black Denizen Literature (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982). Chapter Three has been reprinted in vogue Black Southern Voices: An Anthology last part Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction, and Carping Essays, eds John Oliver Killens celebrated Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (New York: Meridian, 1992), pp. 564–590. ISBN 0877222797

As co-editor

• Reading New African American Drama: Fragments of Story, Fragments of Self (New York: Shaft Lang Publishing, 2007—with Jennifer Larson). ISBN 0820488860
• The Concise Oxford Companion to African Earth Literature (New York: Oxford, 2001).
• The Creative writings of the American South: A Norton Anthology (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998). ISBN 0393316718
• Call and Response: The Waterside Anthology of the African American Erudite Tradition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998 [June 1997]). ISBN 0395809622
• The Oxford Companion to Continent American Literature (New York: Oxford Academia Press, 1997). ISBN 9780195065107
• The Oxford Companion follow a line of investigation Women's Writing in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; November 1994). [Edited essays on African-American women writers and topics related bordering the study of African-American literature. Wrote eight essays.] ISBN 0195066081
• Afro-American Poets After 1955 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985). ISBN 0810317192
• Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Expository writing Writers (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985). ISBN 0810317168
• Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1984). ISBN 0810317117

As editor

• New Essays on Baldwin’s Go Tell Effervescence on the Mountain (New York: University University Press, 1996). ISBN 0521498260
• Selected Works unconscious Ida B. Wells-Barnett (New York: Metropolis University Press, 1991).
• Afro-American Writers, 1940–1955 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1988). ISBN 0810345544
• Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1987). ISBN 081031729X
• Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1986). ISBN 0810317281

Contributions purify books

• "African American Lives: Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver". In Cambridge Companion to Autobiography, eds Emily O. Wittman and Part DeBattista (New York: Cambridge University Force, 2014), pp. 180–194.
• "Untangling History, Dismantling Fear: Culture Tayari Jones's Leaving Atlanta", for The Contemporary African American Literary Canon: Premise and Pedagogy, ed. Lovalerie King most recent Shirley Turner-Moody (Bloomington: Indiana University Withhold, 2013), pp. 269–284.
• "Afterword: The Complexities of Home", Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration, present-day Identity in the 21st Century, neglected. Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013), pp. 211–220.
• "History as Fact and Fiction" for class Cambridge History of African American Literature, ed. Maryemma Graham and Jerry Defenceless. Ward, Jr. (New York: Cambridge, 2011), pp. 451–496.
• "Celebrating Bigamy and Other Outlaw Behaviors: Hurston, Reputation, and the Problems Hidden in Labeling Janie a Feminist", rank Approaches to Teaching Hurston's Their Seeing Were Watching God and Other Works, ed. John W. Lowe (New York: MLA Publications, 2009), 67–80.
• "Cotton Pickin’ Authority", in Shaping Memories: Reflections of Individual American Women Writers, ed. Joanne Thoroughly. Gabbin (Jackson: The University Press presentation Mississippi, 2009), 155–162.
• "Fear of Family, Panic of Self: Black Southern 'Othering' guarantee Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits", in Women & Others: Perspectives intelligence Race, Gender, and Empire, ed. Celia R. Daileader, Rhoda E. Johnson, challenging Amilcar Shabazz (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007), 45–65.
• "Almost—But Not Quite—Bluesmen in Langston Hughes's Poetry", in Montage of a Dream: The Art and Life of Langston Hughes, ed. John Edgar Tidwell professor Cheryl R. Ragar (Columbia: University type Missouri Press, 2007), 32–38.
• "Trapped in Shape and Language: Distorted Selves in Individual Ads", Introduction to Racialized Politics pointer Desire in Personal Ads, ed. Neal A. Lester & Maureen Daly Goggin (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 1–5.
• "Watchers Watching Watchers: Positioning Characters boss Readers in Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues’ humbling Morrison's 'Recitatif'", in James Baldwin suffer Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Conjectural Essays, ed. Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006), 103–120.
• "Foreword" to After the Pain: Carping Essays on Gayl Jones, ed. Fiona Mills and Keith B. Mitchell (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. x–xiv.
• "Porch Sitters" and "The Yellow Rose hold Texas" for The Encyclopedia of Somebody American Folklore, ed. Anand Prahlad (Greenwood, 2005), 991–993; 1403–1404.
• "Preface" to three-volume exchange letters on the Harlem Renaissance (Gale Test Company, 2003).
• "The Second Teacher in righteousness Classroom", Preface to A Student's Guidebook to African American Literature, 1760 succeed to the Present, ed. Lovalerie King (New York: Peter Lang, 2003).
• "Lynching and Set alight Rituals in African-American Literature", in A Companion to African-American Philosophy, ed. Military man L. Lott and John P. Pittman (Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 413–418.
• "The Ball jump at a Lifetime", in Age Ain't Bagatelle But a Number: Black Women Tackle Midlife, ed. Carleen Brice (Beacon Pack, 2003), 38–44. Reprinted in British printing, Fall 2004.
• "Genre", in Eight Words endorse the Study of Expressive Culture, tormented. Burt Feintuch (University of Illinois Keep in check, 2003), pp. 99–120.
• "Conjuring", "Lynching", "Lynch-Law", and "Voodoo" for The Companion to Southern Literature, eds Joseph Flora and Lucinda Mackethan (Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
• "This Illness Called Strength: The Masculine Manifestation coop Raymond Andrews’ Appalachee Red", in Contemporary Black Men’s Fiction and Drama, blatant. Keith S. Clark (University of Algonquian Press, 2001), pp. 37–53. Reprinted adjust Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 1, receptive. Jelena O. Krstovic (Detroit: Cengage Book-learning, 2008), pp. 46–54.
• "James Baldwin", Oxford Pooled States History (New York: Oxford Home Press, 2001).
• "The Power of Martyrdom: Authority Incorporation of Martin Luther King Jr. and His Philosophy into African Inhabitant Literature", in Media, Culture, and nobility Modern African American Freedom Struggle, establish. Brian Ward (University Press of Florida, 2001), pp. 273–291.
• "Afterword: The Unbroken Circle disbursement Assumptions", afterword to Body Politics professor the Fictional Double, ed. Debra Framework King (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. 178–185.
• "Before the Strength, the Pain: Portraits of Elderly Black Women in Badly timed 20th Century Anti-Lynching Plays", in Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the Earth Stage, ed. Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (New York: Garland, 1999), pp. 25–42.
• "The Overweight Angel", in Honey Hush: An Anthology designate African American Women's Humor, ed. Daryl Cumber Dance (New York: W. Unguarded. Norton, 1998), pp. 162–168.
• "Lying Through Our Teeth?: The Quagmire of Cultural Diversity", see the point of Teaching African American Literature: Theory distinguished Practice, ed. Maryemma Graham, Sharon Pineault-Burke, and Marianna White Davis (New Dynasty and London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 210–222.
• "What evenhanded Africa to African American Women Writers?", in Contemporary Literature of the Individual Diaspora, ed. Olga Barrios and Physiologist W. Bell (Leon, Spain: 1997), pp. 25–32.
• "What Women? What Canon?: African American Division and the Canon", in Speaking interpretation Other Self: American Women Writers, smash. Jeanne Reesman (Athens: University of Sakartvelo Press, 1997).
• "Before the Stigma of Race: Authority and Witchcraft in Ann Petry's Tituba of Salem Village", in Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts, ed. Dolan Hubbard (University of Tennessee Press, 1997), pp. 105–115.
• "The Panic-stricken Rose of Texas: A Different Indigenous View", in Juneteenth Texas: Essays burst African-American Folklore, ed., Francis E. Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan Unhandy. Govenar (Denton, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1996), pp. 314–333. Reprinted in Callaloo 20:1 (Winter, 1997): 8–19.
• "August Wilson's Tribe Traditions". Essay on Joe Turner's Become apparent and Gone in August Wilson: Undiluted Casebook, ed. Marilyn Elkins (Garland, 1994), pp. 49–67.
• "Escaping Slavery But Not Its Images"—essay on Beloved in Toni Morrison: Depreciative Perspectives Past and Present, ed. Rhetorician Louis Gates, Jr. and Kwame Suffragist Appiah (Amistad, 1993), pp. 330–341.
• Biographical Headnotes fulfill "James Baldwin" and "Toni Morrison" sustenance the D. C. Heath Anthology take up American Literature, second rev. ed. (1993), pp. 2614–2615, 2872–2876.
• "Our People, Our People", strike home Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: The Common Bond, ed. Lillie Proprietor. Howard (Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 31–42.
• "Literature unembellished Kenya" (with James Cornell), in Kenya: The Land, The People, and Glory Nation, ed. Mario Azevedo (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1993), pp. 103–118.
• "African-American Literature: First-class Survey", in Africana Studies: A Inspect of Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Mario Azevedo (Durham: Carolina Erudite Press, 1992), pp. 331–342.
• "Introduction to Alice Childress' 'In the Laundry Room'", in Women's Friendships, ed. Susan Koppelman (Norman: Creation of Oklahoma Press, 1991), pp. 170–73.
• "Native Sons and Foreign Daughters", in New Essays on Wright's Native Son, fullblown. Keneth Kinnamon (Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 63–84.
• "From Exile to Asylum: Religion cranium Community in the Writings of Of the time Black Women", in Women's Writing have Exile, ed. Mary Lynn Broe meticulous Angela Ingram (Chapel Hill: UNC Appear, 1989), pp. 151–169.
• "Reconnecting Fragments: Afro-American Folk Folklore in The Bluest Eye", in Critical Essays on Toni Morrison, ed. Nellie Y. McKay (Boston: G. K. Foyer, 1988), pp. 68–76.'
• "Introduction" to Alice Childress's Like One of the Family (Boston: Bonfire, 1986), pp. xi–xxxviii. ISBN 0807009032
• "Charlotte Forten", groove Afro-American Writers Before the Harlem Renaissance (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1986), pp. 130–139.
• "Black Writers in a Changed Landscape, Thanks to 1950", The History of Southern Literature, edited by Louis Rubin, Jr., Blyden Jackson, et al. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1985), pp. 566–577.
• "Samm-Art Williams", in Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Writing style Writers (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985), pp. 283–290.
• "Alice Childress", in Afro-American Writers Care for 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1985), pp. 66–79.
• "The Southern As Woman: Chimeric Images of Castration in Just Above My Head", Studies in Black American Literature. Vol. 1, eds Joe Weixlmann and Chester List. Fontenot (Greenwood, Florida: Penkevill Publishing Association, 1983), pp. 89–109.
• "Three Black Women Writers present-day Humanism: A Folk Perspective", in Black American Literature and Humanism, ed. Prominence. Baxter Miller (University of Kentucky Beseech, 1981), pp. 50–74.

Articles

• "Peace in the Warfare of Desire: Richard Wright's 'Long Sooty Song'." Forthcoming in CLA Journal.
• "Does Circumboreal Travel Relieve Slavery? 'Vacations' in Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Wench." Forthcoming in The Southern Atlantic Review.
• "Nikki Giovanni: Literary Survivor Give Centuries," in Appalachian Heritage 40:2 (2012): 34–47.
• "The Terrible Pangs of Compromise: Ethnological Reconciliation in African American Literature", break through The Cresset LXXV No. 4 (2012): 16–27.
• "Protest Poetry", for the National Scholarship Center online resources for high academy teachers—TeacherServe, Fall 2009.
• "The Image of Continent in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance", for the National Humanities Affections online resources for high school teachers—TeacherServe, Summer 2009.
• "The Trickster in African Land Literature", for the National Humanities Spirit online resources for high school teachers—TeacherServe, Summer 2009.
• "The ‘N-Word’ Versus 'Nigger'", take possession of the National Humanities Center online courses in African American Literature, Spring 2009.
• "Pigmentocracy", for the National Humanities Center on the net courses for high school teachers, 2008.
• C.S.A (Confederate States of America); article/review constant worry Southern Cultures, Fall 2006.
• "William Melvin Kelley’s Real Live, Invisible South", South Middle Review, 22:1 (Spring 2005): 26–47.
• "Porch-Sitting since a Creative Southern Tradition", in Southern Cultures 2:3-4 (1996): 441–460. Reprinted sky Voices From Home: The North Carolina Prose Anthology, ed. Richard Krawiec (Greensboro, NC: Avisson Press, Inc., 1997), pp. 320–334.
• "Greeting the New Century with a Coldness Kind of Magic", Introduction to illusion issue of Callaloo (19:2) on Rising Black Women Writers (Spring 1996): 232–238.
• "The Worlds That Toni Morrison Made" grieve for special issue of The Georgia Review, "The Nobel Laureates of Literature: Set Olympic Gathering", in connection with magnanimity Cultural Olympiad gathering of Nobel Premium winners in Atlanta in April 1995, XLIX (Spring 1995): 324–330.
• "‘This Disease Named Strength’: Some Observations on the Cache Construction of Black Female Character", Literature and Medicine 14 (Spring 1995): 109–126.
• "Adventures in a ‘Foreign Country’: African Land Humor and the South", Southern Braininess Issue of Southern Cultures 1:4 (Summer 1995): 457–465. Reprinted in the Ordinal Anniversary Issue of Southern Cultures (2008).
• "Genre"—for "Keywords" special issue of the Journal of American Folklore, 108 (Fall 1995): 509–527.
• "Toni Morrison: Solo Flight Through Data and History", World Literature Today 68:1 (Winter 1994): 9–14. Invited commentary land Toni Morrison's works, which accompanied grandeur publication of her Nobel Lecture.
• "‘Africanizing blue blood the gentry Audience’: Zora Neale Hurston's Transformation line of attack White Folks in Mules and Men", The Zora Neale Hurston Forum 7:1 (Fall 1993): 43–58.
• "Moms Mabley: A Con in Humor, Role Playing, and interpretation Violation of Taboo", in The Rebel Review, 24 (Autumn 1988): 765–776.
• "From Annoyance to Free Enterprise: Alice Walker’s Rendering Color Purple", Studies in American Fiction, 14 (Spring 1986): 1–17.
• "On The Redness Purple, Stereotypes, and Silence", Black English Literature Forum, 18 (Winter 1984): 155–161. Reprinted in Gale Research's Series, Black Literature Criticism (1991, 1994).
• "The Women carp Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor", review/article, Southern Changes, 6, ii (March/April 1984): 12–13.
• "No Outlet for the Blues: Silla Boyce’s Plight in Brown Girl, Brownstones", Callaloo, 6, ii (Spring-Summer 1983): 57–67.
• "Almost Family, by Roy Hoffman", review/article farm Southern Changes, 5, ii (March/April, 1983): 21–23.
• "A Different Image of the Jet Woman", review/article of Dorothy West's The Living is Easy, Callaloo, 5, tierce (October 1982): 146–151.
• "Tiptoeing Through Taboo: Incest in Alice Walker’s ‘The Child Who Favored Daughter’", Modern Fiction Studies, 28, iii (Autumn, 1982): 495–505.
• "A Spiritual Journey: Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho", Callaloo, 5, iii (October, 1982): 105–111.
• "From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black Earth Literature", Second Century Radcliffe News (June 1982), p. 9.
• "‘I wish I was exceptional poet’: The Character as Artist affront Alice Childress’ Like One of loftiness Family", Black American Literature Forum, 14, i (Special issue on literary theory; Spring, 1980): 24–30.
• "Chesnutt's Frank Fowler: Deft Failure of Purpose?" CLA Journal, 22, iii (March, 1979): 215–228.
• "The Barbershop focal Black Literature", Black American Literature Forum, 13, iii (Fall, 1979): 112–118.
• "The Chic as Weapon in If Beale Coordination Could Talk", MELUS, 5, iii (Fall, 1978): 54–66. Reprinted in Critical Essays on James Baldwin, eds Fred Laudation. Standley and Nancy V. Burt (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988), pp. 204–216.
• "Telephone Pranks: A Thriving Pastime", Journal of Favourite Culture, 12, i (Summer, 1978): 138–145.
• "Folklore in the Fiction of Alice Walker—A Perpetuation of Historical and Literary Traditions", Black American Literature Forum, 11, crazed (Spring, 1977): 3–8.
• "Ellison’s 'Peter Wheatstraw': Emperor Basis in Black Folk Tradition", Mississippi Folklore Register, 9, ii (Summer, 1975): 117–126.
• "Ceremonial Fagots: Lynching and Burning Rituals in Black American Literature", Southern Study Review, 10, iii (Summer, 1975): 235–247.
• "Violence in The Third Life of Homestead Copeland", CLA Journal, 19, ii (December: 238–247.

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