Cover of Girl, Colored and Other Stories: A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in the Crisis Magazine, 1910-2010

Girl, Colored and Other Stories: A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in the Crisis Magazine, 1910-2010

As the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, ) The Crisisis one of the longest running African American journals in the history of American publishing. Throughout its century-long publication, The Crisishas made immeasurable contributions to the careers of several female African American writers, including Anita Scott Coleman, Mary Church Terrell, and Jessie Fauset. This anthology collects all of the short stories published in The Crisisby African American women during the magazine's first century of publication, offering an historical, literary, and cultural perspective on the lives of African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to the present.

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adult
Length
long · 461 pages

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