1Hazel Amett Ervin, "Introduction", in Hazel Arnett Ervin, ed. , African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1999, pp. 10-19.
2Henry Louis Gates, " Preface to Blackness: Text and Pretext", in Winston Napier, ed. , African American Literary Theory: A Reader, New York and London: New York University Press, 2000, p. 163.
3Joyce A. Joyce, "The Black Canon: Reconstructing Black American Literary Criticism", in New Literary History, 18.2(Winter 1987), p. 338.
4Henry Louis Gates, " ' What's Love Got to Do with It?' : Critical Theory, Integrity, and the Black Idiom", in New Literary History, 18.2 ( Winter, 1987 ) , p. 347.
5Houston A. Baker, "In Dubious Battle", in New Literary History, 18.2 (Winter 1987), pp. 363 -369.
6Houston A. Baker, "In Dubious Battle", p. 366, p. 369.
7Joyce A..loyce, " ' Who the Cap Fit' : Unconsciousness and Unconscionableness in the Criticism of Houston A. Baker, Jr., andHenry Louis Gates, Jr." in New Literary History, 18.2 (Winter 1987), p. 372.
8Joyce, "Who the Cap Fit", p. 376, p. 373.
9Joyce, "Who the Cap Fit", p. 382.
10Deborah E. McDoweU, "Black Feminist Thinking : the ' Practice ' of ' Theory' " in Winston Napier, ed. , African American Literary Theory: A Reader, pp. 564 -565, p. 574.
