Short note on african american criticism
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African-American Criticism
This criticism challenges established ideologies, racial boundaries, and racial prejudice. It also acknowledges and incorporates the writings of past and often suppressed and forgotten African-American literature, the major historical movements that have influenced African-American writings, and both historical and current attitudes toward African-Americans themselves. Concerns about this criticism include:
- Marginalization of blacks
- Social, political, economic, ideological, and literary oppression
- The historical and cultural significance of the black experience that has ties to African language and culture
- Celebrating that which is black in black art
- The significance of slavery as a historical event and its present-day racial implications
- Reading race into all American literature because whiteness is "the Other" of blackness
This criticism challenges established ideologies, racial boundaries, and racial prejudice. It also acknowledges and incorporates the writings of past and often suppressed and forgotten African-American literature, the major historical movements that have influenced African-American writings, and both historical and current attitudes toward African-Americans themselves. Concerns about this criticism include:
- Marginalization of blacks
- Social, political, economic, ideological, and literary oppression
- The historical and cultural significance of the black experience that has ties to African language and culture
- Celebrating that which is black in black art
- The significance of slavery as a historical event and its present-day racial implications
- Reading race into all American literature because whiteness is "the Other" of blackness
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