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1 Amiri Baraka (writing as LeRoi Jones). Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed from It (New York: William Morrow, 2013).
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Keith Gilyard
Keith Gilyard is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. The author of 24 books, his works include the education memoir Voices of the Self, biographies of John Oliver Killens and Louise Thompson Patterson, and the poetry collections Impressions and On Location. He is chair of the board of Third World Press Foundation.