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Race and American Literature"Race and American Literature" is an English book that identifies the importance of the concept of "race" in American literature. This book is a four-century publication of travel from the "shipwreckers" of Cabeza de Vega published in Spain in the mid-16th century to the "invisible man" of Ralph Ellison published in the mid-20th century, It handles diverse genres of diaries, Indian watercolors, slave escapes, poetry, novels, and prose. The writers discussed include writers from the 16th to the nineteenth century who are not well known with Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Douglas, Duvois, and Ellison, all of which belong to the outages of American literature. Analyzes the racism that is embedded in the works of white artists and emphasizes the importance of black literature that started from the discourse of resistance against racism. Ultimately, this book reflects the importance of black literature in American history towards cultural scholarly pluralism.