The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature is a widely used scholarly collection that surveys and contextualizes major works by African American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
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| The Norton Anthology of African American Literature canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Context triple: [Norton Anthologies, notableVolume, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature]
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A.
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is a landmark 1968 collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Black writers that helped define the aesthetics, politics, and cultural vision of the Black Arts Movement.
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B.
Four Negro Poets
Four Negro Poets is an influential anthology edited by Alain Locke that showcases the work of key early 20th-century African American poets and helped shape the Harlem Renaissance literary canon.
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C.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is a landmark 1922 anthology edited by James Weldon Johnson that helped introduce and legitimize African American poets and their work to a broad American readership.
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D.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal 1903 collection of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois that explores African American life after the Civil War and famously introduces the concepts of "double consciousness" and "the veil."
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E.
Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Target entity description: The Norton Anthology of African American Literature is a widely used scholarly collection that surveys and contextualizes major works by African American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
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A.
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is a landmark 1968 collection of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays by Black writers that helped define the aesthetics, politics, and cultural vision of the Black Arts Movement.
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B.
Four Negro Poets
Four Negro Poets is an influential anthology edited by Alain Locke that showcases the work of key early 20th-century African American poets and helped shape the Harlem Renaissance literary canon.
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C.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is a landmark 1922 anthology edited by James Weldon Johnson that helped introduce and legitimize African American poets and their work to a broad American readership.
-
D.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal 1903 collection of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois that explores African American life after the Civil War and famously introduces the concepts of "double consciousness" and "the veil."
-
E.
Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
literary anthology
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reference work ⓘ textbook ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editor |
Arnold Rampersad
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Deborah E. McDowell ⓘ Frances Smith Foster ⓘ George M. Fredrickson ⓘ Henry Louis Gates Jr. ⓘ Hortense Spillers ⓘ Houston A. Baker Jr. ⓘ Kimberlé Crenshaw ⓘ Nell Painter ⓘ Nellie Y. McKay NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Bell-Scott ⓘ Robert G. O’Meally ⓘ Valerie Smith ⓘ William L. Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feature |
author headnotes
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bibliographies ⓘ chronologies ⓘ contextual essays ⓘ historical introductions ⓘ |
| firstEditionPublicationYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology
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literary criticism ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
scholars
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teachers ⓘ university students ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| notableContributor |
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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Nellie Y. McKay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| subject |
African American history
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African American literature ⓘ African American writers ⓘ Black Arts Movement ⓘ Harlem Renaissance ⓘ contemporary African American literature ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ |
| usedAs | college course textbook ⓘ |
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