{"product_id":"african-american-literature-everett-hoagland-working-library","title":"African American Literature | Everett Hoagland Working Library","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"549\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"106\"\u003eBook Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"106\" data-end=\"109\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"121\"\u003eEditors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Demetrice A. Worley and Jesse Perry, Jr.\u003cbr data-start=\"162\" data-end=\"165\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"165\" data-end=\"175\"\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"261\"\u003eAfrican American Literature: An Anthology of Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"264\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"264\" data-end=\"277\"\u003eForeword:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nikki Giovanni\u003cbr data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"295\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"309\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Textbook Company, a division of NTC Publishing Group\u003cbr data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"374\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"374\" data-end=\"399\"\u003ePlace of Publication:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lincolnwood, Illinois\u003cbr data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"424\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"433\"\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1995\u003cbr data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"441\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"454\"\u003ePrinting:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1995 Printing\u003cbr data-start=\"468\" data-end=\"471\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"471\" data-end=\"483\"\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Trade Paperback\u003cbr data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"502\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"515\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003cbr data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"526\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"535\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0-8442-5727-3\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"566\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"566\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"1233\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"597\"\u003eAfrican American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama spanning more than two centuries of African American literary achievement. Featuring works by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King Jr., Claude McKay, Toni Morrison, Malcolm X, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, William Melvin Kelley, and many others, the anthology serves as an important educational resource introducing readers to the richness and diversity of African American literature and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1535\"\u003eDesigned for classroom use, the volume includes historical introductions, author biographies, critical thinking exercises, writing activities, and a glossary of literary terms, making it an enduring reference for African American studies, literary criticism, and secondary and collegiate instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1537\" data-end=\"1550\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1537\" data-end=\"1550\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1552\" data-end=\"1866\"\u003eTrade paperback. Good to Very Good. Binding remains square and sound. Covers show light shelf and handling wear. Water staining and rippling are present along the lower margins of several leaves from a previous moisture exposure but do not affect readability or the integrity of the text. Interior otherwise clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1868\" data-end=\"2108\"\u003eThis copy retains Everett Hoagland's ownership stamp on the top edge, an original handwritten note laid into the text, and contemporary red-pencil marginal annotations documenting Hoagland's active reading and engagement with the anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2132\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2132\"\u003eCollection History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2134\" data-end=\"2443\"\u003eThis volume comes from the \u003cstrong data-start=\"2161\" data-end=\"2197\"\u003eEverett Hoagland Working Library\u003c\/strong\u003e. It retains Hoagland's ownership stamp together with original reading ephemera and marginal annotations, providing direct evidence of its use by the award-winning poet, educator, and first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1994–1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2445\" data-end=\"2895\"\u003eHoagland's poetry and teaching explored many of the writers represented in this anthology, including James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. His annotations and reading marks transform this copy from a standard teaching anthology into a documented working copy reflecting the intellectual life of one of the important voices in late twentieth-century African American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2897\" data-end=\"2942\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2897\" data-end=\"2942\"\u003eFrom the Everett Hoagland Working Library\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2944\" data-end=\"3578\"\u003eThis volume comes from the personal working library of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2999\" data-end=\"3031\"\u003eEverett Hoagland (1942–2025)\u003c\/strong\u003e—award-winning poet, educator, and the first Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Carefully assembled over decades of writing, teaching, and scholarship, his library reflects a lifelong engagement with African American literature, Black history, jazz and blues, the Black Arts Movement, poetry, education, and social justice. Books retaining Hoagland's ownership marks, annotations, or original ephemera offer collectors and institutions a unique opportunity to acquire volumes documenting the intellectual influences that shaped his work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Debs Book Paradise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44264542503092,"sku":"EH-1-2","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/9279\/1220\/files\/amerlitfrontcover.jpg?v=1783633769","url":"https:\/\/debsbookparadise.com\/products\/african-american-literature-everett-hoagland-working-library","provider":"Debs Book Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}