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RACE AND ETHNICITY / AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

African American African Americans Maya Angelou
Student’s Guide to and Criminal Justice The Iconic Self

College Success An Encyclopedia Second Edition
MARY JANE LUPTON
F. ERIK BROOKS AND DELORES D. JONES-BROWN,
GLENN L. STARKS BEVERLY D. FRAZIER, AND
MARVIE BROOKS, EDITORS

GREENWOOD
January 2016, 202pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
GREENWOOD Print: 978-1-4408-3758-6
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eBook: 978-0-313-35717-6 This book presents the extraordinary
life and writings of Maya Angelou. It
This encouraging guide coaches African examines the changing viewpoints
American and first-generation college “ Recommended. Lower-division in her six autobiographies within
students on strategies for maximizing undergraduates and above; the context of women’s and African
their experiences and success on general readers. ” American autobiographies, with specific
university campuses. —Choice, February 1, 2015 reference to the slave narrative and to
FEATURES Does justice exist for Blacks in America? contemporary fiction and film.
• Offers strategies to assist African This comprehensive compilation of FEATURES
American students with succeeding essays documents the historical and • Examines each of Maya Angelou’s six
in college contemporary impact of the law and autobiographies, enabling readers to
• Reveals stories of African American criminal justice system on people of understand what growing up black
graduates and tips for assimilating African ancestry in the United States. and female in the United States was
into an academic environment like
• Provides detailed and updated • Traces the development of black
resources on schools and DELORES D. JONES-BROWN is autobiography from its roots in the
organizations professor in the Department of Law, slave narrative to its presence in
• Explains logistics, operations, and Police Science, and Criminal Justice contemporary fiction and film
terms used on college campuses Administration at John Jay College of • Highlights the exclusive 1997
Criminal Justice, City University of New
York. interview between Maya Angelou and
the author
F. ERIK BROOKS, PhD, is professor BEVERLY D. FRAZIER is assistant
and chair of the department of African professor in the Department of Law, • Examines Maya Angelou’s
American studies at Western Illinois Police Science, and Criminal Justice achievements as a poet
University. Administration at John Jay College of • Offers an alternate reading for each
GLENN L. STARKS, PhD, has almost Criminal Justice, City University of New autobiography
25 years of experience working York.
for the United States government MARVIE BROOKS is retired from the
and has written extensively on City University of New York library MARY JANE LUPTON, PhD, is
public administration and American system after 50 years of service. professor emeritus at Morgan State
politics, including two recent books University.
on the history of the United States
government.
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