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Angela Ards

Angela Ards

Assistant Professor

English

Ph.D., Princeton University
Dallas Hall 26
214-768-9197
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Research/Teaching Interests

20th Century American Literature, African American Literature

Selected Publications

  • “First Person: Activist Chino Hardin Imagines the Promised Land,” SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. 5.3 (Summer 2003): 50-70.

  • “Rhyme and Resist: Organizing the Hip Hop Generation,” That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Routledge, 2002.

  • “Race Natters: The Black Chattering Classes Convene,” Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature. John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

  • “To Be Young, Female & Black: A Real-Live, Walking-Talking, African American Role Model Goes to Work in a Shelter for Teen Moms,”  Still Lifting, Still Climbing: Contemporary African American Women’s Activism. New York University Press, 1999.