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Articles in Summer, 1997 issue of African American Review

• The Fruits of Integration: Black Middle-Class Ideology and Culture, 1960-1990. - book reviews
  by Roderick J. McDavis
• The Critical Response to Richard Wright. - book reviews
  by M. Lynn Weiss
• In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry. - book reviews
  by Lorenzo Thomas
• "Protection in My Mouf": self, voice, and community in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Dust Tracks on a Road' and 'Mules and Men.' - autobiography and ethnography by Zora Neale Hurston
  by Lynn Domina
• Beyond Ontological Blackness: An Essay on African American Religious and Cultural Criticism. - book reviews
  by Anthony B. Pinn
• Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. - book reviews
  by John M. Reilly
• The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells. - book reviews
  by P. Gabrielle Foreman
• "Our Father, God; Our Brother, Christ; or are we bastard kin?": images of Christ in African American painting
  by Kymberly N. Pinder
• Slavery, the Civil Law, and the Supreme Court of Louisiana. - book reviews
  by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
• Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African-American Women. - book reviews
  by Missy Dehn Kubitschek
• My Soul Is a Witness: African-American Women's Spirituality. - book reviews
  by Carla L. Peterson
• Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems. - book reviews
  by Marilyn Nelson
• American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender. - book reviews
  by Michael Berube
• James Baldwin: A Biography. - book reviews
  by Fred L. Standley
• Fast Talk, Full Volume: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. - book reviews
  by Herbert Woodward Martin
• "It's a Time in the Land": gendering black power and Sarah E. Wright's place in the tradition of black women's writing - on racism and sexism
  by Jennifer Campbell
• African Americans and the Living Constitution. - book reviews
  by Tanya Y. Hill
• "Doers of the Word": African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North . - 1830-1880 - book reviews
  by Nina Baym
• The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: vol. 2,-Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951-November 1955. - book reviews
  by Dolan Hubbard
• Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. - book reviews
  by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
• "Come-to-Jesus Stuff" in James Baldwin's 'Go tell It on the Mountain' and 'The Amen Corner.' - a novel and a play
  by Barbara K. Olson
• Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance. - book reviews
  by George Woodyard
• August Wilson and the African-American Odyssey. - book reviews
  by Sandra G. Shannon
• Shadow and Light: An Autobiography. - book reviews
  by Willard B. Gatewood
• Following the traces of female desire in Toni Morrison's 'Jazz' - novel
  by Elizabeth M. Cannon
• Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement. - book reviews
  by Harry S. Ashmore
• Women of the Harlem Renaissance. - book reviews
  by Farah Jasmine Griffin
• The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Vol. 1, The New York Age Editorials . - 1914-1923 - book reviews
  by Robert E. Fleming
• Brothers and Sisters. - book reviews
  by Kari J. Winter
• "The Black Dick": race, sexuality, and discourse in the L.A. novels of Walter Mosley - African American detective novels
  by Roger A. Berger
• Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy. - book reviews
  by Joe R. Feagin
• Spooks, Spies and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction. - book reviews
  by Robert E. Skinner
• Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company. - book reviews
  by James V. Hatch
• Wounded in the House of a Friend. - book reviews
  by Joyce Ann Joyce
• Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. - book reviews
  by Edward Pavlic
• Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress. - book reviews
  by Joyce Meier
• A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story. - book reviews
  by Alice A. Deck
• The pull to memory and the language of place in Paule Marshall's 'The Chosen Place, The Timeless People' and 'Praisesong for the Widow.' - novels
  by Jane Olmsted
• The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. - book reviews
  by John McCluskey, Jr.
• Representing Jazz. - book reviews
  by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
• Be I Whole. - book reviews
  by Kari J. Winter
• Reading 'Rice': a local habitation and a name - a collection of poems
  by Kwame Dawes