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John Wright
African American & African Studies
810 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Collegiate Affiliation
Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- BEE: Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota
- MA: English and American Literature, University of Minnesota
- PhD: American Studies, University of Minnesota, 1977
Specialties
- sociology of literature
- American and Afro-American literature
- Black Arts Movement
- feminist criticism
- folklore and oral tradition
- Harlem Renaissance
- intellectual history and popular culture
- Langston Hughes
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