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"When he is least himself": Dunbar and double consciousness in African American poetry.(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
Like Paul Laurence Dunbar, and like many people who don't even consider themselves to be poets, I began writing poetry as a child. Although Dunbar was not a poet I tried to emulate when I wrote my first poems, and although he is not among my consciously chosen ancestor poets, he certainly contributed to my poetic inheritance. I recognize now that his poetry was an influence so pervasive in my upbringing that I never felt the need to claim him as my own.
I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas--one of the cities with a Dunbar High School, although neither I nor anyone in my family attended it. (1) My grandparents and my parents were schooled in Dunbar's poetry, a perennial ...
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African American males continue to go underidentified...Williams' dire report on African American male crime statistics...failing our Black males (Dunbar, 2001; McNally, 2003...underrepresenation among African American male cohorts. The literature...
