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American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of “Western civilization,” the mythical “Whitetown,” that we learn about one another’s cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets. - Ishmael Reed Attribution: Ishmael Reed (b. 1938), U.S. novelist, poet, essayist. repr. In Writin’Is Fightin,’Atheneum (1988). “Hymietown Revisited,” California Magazine (October 1984).

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Ishmael Reed

Titles by Ishmael Reed:

• Mumbo Jumbo
• Reckless Eyeballing
• The Free-lance Pallbearers

Encyclopedia:

• Reed, Ishmael [Scott] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Salem on Literature:

• The Essays of Ishmael Reed (Masterplots II: African American Literature Series)
• Ishmael Reed (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ishmael Reed (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Ishmael Reed (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
• Ishmael Reed (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Literary Criticism:

• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 174) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Scott) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 2) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 5) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Reed, Ishmael (Vol. 13) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)