Current Opinion on the Teaching of the Literature of the Negro

The widespread revival of academic and lay interest in the literary expression of America, occasioned by the ideological demands of the present war, is a significant development for scholars and teachers of the literature of the American Negro. For several decades literary scholars in Negro colleges have urged upon their students the importance of the contribution of Negro authors to native literature. However, there has been little success -in the effort to standardize the study of this contribution in all American schools and colleges. And it is obvious that-the entire effort to establish the Negro author in the proper conceptual orthodoxy of legitimate American literature does only a portion of its task when it is content with. success among Negro students. Manifestly, students of all races must be brought to a consciousness of the fact of the contribution of the Negro author, with whatever implications that fact may have in the reduction 6f racial animosities and in the promulgation of appreciation and respect for the merits of a literary art which is nonetheless authentic and American because it stems from Negro Americans

Mathematics education · Sociology · History · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

• Social Origins of Distinguished Negroes, 1770-1865

  Richard Bardolph•The Journal of Negro History•1955

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