Houston A. Baker Jr.

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African-American literary critic African-American studies scholar literary critic person scholar

Houston A. Baker Jr. is an influential American literary critic and scholar whose work on African American literature and culture has significantly shaped Black literary theory and criticism.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	African-American literary critic → African-American studies scholar → literary critic → person → scholar →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
educatedAt	Howard University → University of California, Los Angeles →
ethnicGroup	African Americans →
familyName	Baker →
fieldOfWork	African-American culture → African-American literature → cultural studies → literary criticism → literary theory →
genre	cultural criticism → literary criticism →
givenName	Houston NERFINISHED →
hasAcademicRank	professor of African-American studies → professor of English →
hasTaughtAt	Duke University → University of Pennsylvania → Vanderbilt University → Yale University →
hasWrittenOn	African-American modernism → Black nationalism → jazz and African-American culture → race and literary canon formation → theory of African-American vernacular →
influenced	African-American cultural studies → Black literary studies → contemporary literary theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	African-American literary criticism → Black literary theory →
name	Houston A. Baker Jr. →
nationality	American →
notableFor	contributions to African-American literary criticism → contributions to Black literary theory → work on African-American culture → work on African-American literature →
notableWork	Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic → Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature → Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance → Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T. → Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing →
occupation	author → editor → professor →
positionHeld	president of the Modern Language Association →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Black Arts Movement →	movementCritic
Houston A. Baker Jr. →	name