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    Wade in the Water

    Tracy K. Smith

    …be curious,” Smith told The New York Times. The title poem in “Wade in the Water” is “for the Geechee Gullah Ring Shouters” and is based in an experience Smith…

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    Sonia Sanchez

    …of Islam, only to leave because of her experiences with its gender rigidity. In 1969, she published her first poetry collection “Homecoming,” which carried the blues in both form and…

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    Your Most Humble Servant

    Shirley Graham

    …make a good life for my sons.” The nomadic quality of Graham’s early life carried over into her educational experiences and into her later years. After attending classes at Howard…

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    Gordon Parks

    …mother’s death. After an unhappy attempt to move in with a married sister in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Parks ended up spending a frigid winter homeless, an experience that sensitized him to…

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    Infidel

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    …generated much controversy. In this suspenseful account of her life and her internal struggle with her Muslim faith, she discusses how these views were shaped by her experiences amid the

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    …African American Experience, Second Edition. Oxford African-American Studies Center http://www.oxfordaasc.com/article/anb/1400323 Accessed July 28, 2017. Gasman states that the Chicago School emphasized the need to “integrate sociological theory with empirical evidence…

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    Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

    Sandra Cisneros

    Mexican American writer, poet, and ardent feminist, Sandra Cisneros writes stories that are seldom heard in mainstream America-those of the diverse experiences of Hispanic women in contemporary urban society. Her…

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    The United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery

    Jonathan D. S. Schroeder

    …“global slave narrative,” and a parallel work that sheds more light on Harriet Jacobs’s remarkable experience.   In the title alone, and throughout the stunning autobiography and astute biography that share…

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    The Woman Warrior

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    …memory.” Hong Kingston’s two-part autobiography, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980), explores gender constraints, assimilation, and intergenerational conflicts experienced by Chinese immigrants living in California. The Woman Warrior,…

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    People of the Deer

    Farley Mowat

    the environment. Mowat is a prolific writer of nearly 40 books: nonfiction such as No Birds Sang (1971) and The Regiment (1961) about his World War II experiences, childhood memoirs…

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    Manchild in the Promised Land

    Claude Brown

    …narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs and influencing a new generation of African American writers. Brown’s description of American urban life, as relayed through his experiences growing up in…

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    Orlando Patterson

    …I wanted. It was amazing! I used to go there, and read and read and read,” Patterson said. “That was a transformative experience. I just read. Instead of shooting birds…

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    A Gesture Life

    Chang-rae Lee

    form of unhampered self-expression. By exploring his own experiences as a second-generation Korean-born American, Lee’s novels portray the tensions between assimilation into a society and alienation from oneself and one’s…

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    Horse

    Geraldine Brooks

    …Book” and “A Year of Wonders,” which has been translated into 25 languages. “March,” which imagines the Civil War experiences of the idealistic, absent father of “Little Women”  won the

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    “the literary explicator and interpreter of the social, cultural, spiritual, and emotional experiences of Black America.” This grand description is accurate for the role his writings have played in 20th-century…

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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    …a tribal historian from Kunta Kinte’s village. At one point Haley even attempted to recreate the Middle Passage experience of enslaved Africans by sleeping in the hold of a transatlantic…

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    Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner

    F.X. Toole

    …as a boxing trainer and a cut man. His experiences in the ring led to Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, a stunning collection of short stories about the world…

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    Cuyahoga Community College: An Evening with Ohio Poet Laureate Edward A. Julian, Sr.

    September 17 – September 17, 2026

    …2026-2027 Ohio Poet Laureate, will return to Tri-C on September 17 to share his poetry and experience. His journey is a powerful testament to transformation through purpose, discipline, and action….

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    Donika Kelly & “The Renunciations”

    September 14, 2022, 4:00 pm

    …Dr. Mutajah “Taj” Hussein, Co-Owner and Clinical Director of Kindred Harbor Behavioral Health, a practice that specializes in trauma-informed and LGBTQ+ affirming counseling. Together they will discuss Kelly’s experience writing…

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    From Many Lands

    Louis Adamic

    …World War. After the war he worked as a journalist and professional writer All of Adamic’s writings are based on his labor experiences in America and his former life in…