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Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was an American professor, folklorist, poet, and literary critic. He chiefly studied black culture of the Southern United States and was a professor at Howard University for most of his career.
Sterling Allen Brown devoted his life to the development of an authentic black folk literature. A poet, critic, and teacher at Howard University for 40 years, Brown was one of the first people to identify folklore as a vital component of the black aesthetic and to recognize its validity as a form…
Brown is known for his frank, unsentimental portraits of Black people and their experiences, as well as the incorporation of African American folklore and contemporary idiom into his verse. Brown died on January 13, 1989, in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Though he is one of the lesser-known heroes of the Harlem Renaissance, Sterling Brown was one of the period’s most important ethnographers and one of few scholars in his time who treated Negro spirituals and other forms of Black music as valid art forms.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Sterling Brown (born May 1, 1901, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died Jan. 13, 1989, Takoma Park, Md.) was an influential African-American teacher, literary critic, and poet whose poetry was rooted in folklore sources and black dialect.
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Sterling Allen Brown was a renowned poet who documented and championed African American traditional culture in his writings. As Editor of the Negro Affairs for the Federal Writer’s Project (FWP), he set the standards of how Black culture should be presented in realistic ways in FWP publications.
18 de may. de 2018 · Sterling Brown 1901 —. Writer, folklorista educator. At a Glance …. Discovered “ People ’ s Poetry ” of the South. A “ Sparkling ” Professor. Artistic Recognition. Folklorist and Critic.
