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News and Views; Two Thumbs Down: The Early Reviews of What Have Become Today's Black Literary Classics

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From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Date: 20050101
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Today the works of black authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Charles W. Chesnutt, among many others, are required reading in college courses throughout the nation. At many colleges and universities the works of leading black authors are on the syllabi of courses not only in black studies but in classes of traditional American literature.

But many of the works by black authors that we now consider part of the American literary canon were not well received when they were first published.

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