Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970

Target entity: Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970
Context triple: [Charles Johnson, notableWork, Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970]

• A. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
  Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is Toni Morrison’s influential critical study examining how constructions of Blackness shape the themes, characters, and narratives of canonical American literature.
• B. “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”
  “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” is a seminal critical essay by Toni Morrison that examines how Black writers and racialized perspectives have been marginalized, erased, and yet structurally central within the American literary canon.
• C. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic
  "Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic" is a critical study by Houston A. Baker Jr. that reexamines African American literary traditions and aesthetics, particularly in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and subsequent Black artistic movements.
• D. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing
  Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing is a critical study that examines the aesthetics, cultural politics, and expressive traditions of African American women’s literature.
• E. Black Skin, White Masks
  Black Skin, White Masks is a seminal 1952 work of anti-colonial theory and psychoanalysis in which Frantz Fanon examines the psychological effects of racism and colonialism on Black identity.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970
Target entity description: Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 is a critical study by Charles Johnson that examines the evolution, themes, and philosophical dimensions of African American literature in the post-1970 era.

• A. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
  Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination is Toni Morrison’s influential critical study examining how constructions of Blackness shape the themes, characters, and narratives of canonical American literature.
• B. “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”
  “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature” is a seminal critical essay by Toni Morrison that examines how Black writers and racialized perspectives have been marginalized, erased, and yet structurally central within the American literary canon.
• C. Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic
  "Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic" is a critical study by Houston A. Baker Jr. that reexamines African American literary traditions and aesthetics, particularly in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and subsequent Black artistic movements.
• D. Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing
  Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women’s Writing is a critical study that examines the aesthetics, cultural politics, and expressive traditions of African American women’s literature.
• E. Black Skin, White Masks
  Black Skin, White Masks is a seminal 1952 work of anti-colonial theory and psychoanalysis in which Frantz Fanon examines the psychological effects of racism and colonialism on Black identity.
• F. None of above. chosen