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Part III - Cultivating (New) Black Readers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2022

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Eve Dunbar  and
Ayesha K. Hardison
Eve Dunbar
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Vassar College, New York
Ayesha K. Hardison
Affiliation:
University of Kansas
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African American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940 , pp. 209 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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