Panels

 

Recent Black Literature: The Role of the Historian; Historian as Writer; History, Biography, Autobiography as Literature

Tom Dent, Lorenzo Thomas, Joanne Braxton, James Spady

 

Recent Black Literature: The Political Dimensions (Nationalism, Marxism, Feminism, etc)

Acklyn Lynch, Toni Cade Bambara, Kalamu ya Salaam, Amiri Baraka

 

The Sociology of Literature: Literature as a Neglected Resource for the Social Scientist

Joyce Ladner, Houston Baker, Jualynne Dodson, Marion Secundy

 

Recent Black Literature: Some Aesthetic Considerations—Social Realism, the Black Aesthetic—Submerged Positions

Clyde Taylor, Julian Mayfield, Eleanor Traylor, Jerry Ward

 

Issues in Black Women’s Literature

Sondra O’Neale, Daryl Dance, Charles Rowell, Joyce Joyce

 

Black Literature and Literature about Blacks: The Challenge of the Classroom – Method and Practices

Nancy Arnez, Elliott Parris, Paulette Jones, Ronald Herndon