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Born September 16, 1950 (age 76) • Keyser • West Virginia
Awards And Honors Spingarn Medal (2024)
Notable Works “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the ”Racial” Self” • “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow” • “The Signifying Monkey: Towards a Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism”

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