James C. Hall is assistant professor of African America studies and English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the editor of Langston Hughes: A Collection of Poems (1998), coeditor of Teaching a New Canon: Students, Teachers, and Texts in the College Literature Classroom (1995), and author of Mercy, Mercy Me: African American Culture and the American Sixties (forthcoming).
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