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• Introduction: the landscape of ethnic American children's literature

  Author:Katharine Capshaw SmithFrom:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Summer 20021,954 words Critical essay In The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), Carter G. Woodson asserts that "there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom" (2). By suggesting the formative influence of children's culture on social...

• Bessie Woodson Yancey, African-American poet and social critic

  Author:Katharine Capshaw SmithFrom:Appalachian Heritage (Vol. 36, Issue 3)

  Summer 20081,393 words Critical essay In a 1949 editorial in Huntington, West Virginia's The Herald-Advertiser, Bessie Woodson Yancey exclaimed, "Let us loose these fetters from the feet of our fellowman, pull together and place West Virginia among the...

• Narrating History: The Reality of the Internment Camps in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay

  From: ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature

  Apr. 19976,026 words Critical essay [(essay date April 1997) In the following essay, Smith contrasts the experiences of the imprisoned protagonist of Baumgartner's Bombay with the similar autobiographical account of Heinrich Harrar in Seven Years in Tibet,...