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Shirley Moody-Turner

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Shirley Moody-Turner, State College, Pennsylvania, is associate professor of English and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is coeditor of Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon and has published articles and essays on black folklore and African American literature in African American Review, MELUS, Journal of Southern History, MLA Approaches to Teaching Charles W. Chesnutt, Oxford Bibliographies Online, and A Companion to African American Literature.

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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper book cover

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

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Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation book cover

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

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Contemporary African American Literature book cover

Contemporary African American Literature

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