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by Keith Gilyard (Editor)
Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections is a landmark collection of essays that examines the influence of Malcolm X on artistic movements and creative works.
This volume brings together scholars, artists, and writers to analyze Malcolm X's impact on Black cultural production from the 1960s to the contemporary moment.
Author Biography
Since the 1970s, Keith Gilyard has made significant contributions to English studies as a writer, teacher, and participant in professional associations. His more than 100 publications include the influential education memoir Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence, the wide-ranging True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy, and the revivifying On African-American Rhetoric. He received an American Book Award for his biography John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. His dozens of creative works include the novella The Next Great Old-School Conspiracy and the poetry volumes Dominant Seventh and Monologues.
