PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cudjoe, Selwyn
TI  - What I Teach and Why
AID  - 10.17763/haer.50.3.wx4411t400437504
DP  - 1980 Sep 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 362--381
VI  - 50
IP  - 3
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/50/3/362.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/50/3/362.full
SO  - herp1980 Sep 01; 50
AB  - In this article the author chronicles the major movements of Afro-American literature,demonstrating both its particularity and its universality and depicting the manner in which the content of Afro-American experiences shapes the literary forms through which it is expressed. Throughout the essay, Selwyn Cudjoe describes the perspective and methodology which underlie his teaching of Afro-American literature.