Research Guides: LIT 4310: Literary Theory: Race and Ethnicity Studies

Key Theorists in Race & Ethnicity Studies

Explore these main theorists in race and ethnicity studies:

Adunis
Gloria Anzaldua
Rey Chow
W. E. B. Du Bois
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Paul Gilroy

bell hooks
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
Alondra Nelson
Kenneth W. Warren

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Racial Contexts

Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic by Houston A. Baker
Call #: e-Book

Publication Date: 1988
Black Literature in America by Houston A. Baker
Call #: MAIN 810.989 B167B

Publication Date: 1971
The Ideologies of African American Literature:
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt:
A Sociology of Literature Perspective by Robert Washington
Call #: MAIN 810.9896 W319I

Publication Date: 2001
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Theology by M. Cooper Cooper Harriss
Call #: MAIN 813.69 E47H2

Publication Date: 2017
Race
(New Critical Idiom Series) by Martin Orkin; Alexa Alice Joubin
Call #: OhioLINK

Publication Date: 2019