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Coleman, James W., Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman (Jacqueline Berben): [24] 594-600
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Coleman, Wanda, African Sleeping Sickness: Stories & Poems (Tony Magistrale): [26] 355-357
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Costanzo, Angelo, Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography (Raymond Dolle): [23] 785-791

Counts, Will, A Life Is More Than A Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High (Roy Reed): [35] 323-324

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