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Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why
the Caged Bird Sings was nominated for a National Book Award,
yet in 1995 it topped the list of books most frequently challenged
in schools and libraries. This interdisciplinary collection of documents
and commentary explores the historical and social context, as well
as the contemporary issues and controversies raised by Angelou's
autobiography. A rich resource for teachers and students, it will
help to enhance the reader's understanding of the historical and
social forces that shaped Maya Angelou's experience
- race relations in the pre-civil rights South, segregated schools,
the African American church, and the African American family.
It also examines the issue of childhood sexual abuse, the
inclusion of which has been the basis of most of the challenges
to the autobiography, and the issue of the work's censorship
since its publication.
In addition, this online sourcebook provides
the user access to:
- Audio of Maya Angelou reading her poem, "On the Pulse
of Morning"
- Angelou biographical site with audio interview, synopsis of
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, poems, and teaching
materials
- E-texts of History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
in America and "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
- Online exhibit of historical photographs of lynching in America
- Audio of African American Spirituals performed by Fisk University
Jubilee Singers
- African American Migration From South to North, 1900 -1960
Project (National Endowment for the Humanities) with charts
and photographs
- Biographical profiles of: Frederick Douglass; Harriet Jacobs;
Booker T. Washington; W.E.B. DuBois and others
- Biographical sites on Angelou's role models: James Baldwin;
Toni Morrison; Ann Petry; Joan Didion; Paul Laurence Dunbar
and William Shakespeare
- U.S. Department of Justice Child Sexual Abuse Statistical
Summary
- Online exhibit of banned and most frequently challenged books
in America
- Glossary of cultural references and historical idioms from
Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Web-based study questions
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