Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Joseph T. Skerrett (1943-July 25, 2015) is an American literary critic and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Much of his work centers on black studies, and his best-known book is the 2001 anthology Literature, Race and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities.Skerrett was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, and earned a Bachelor's degree at Saint Francis College in 1964. He then earned an M.A. in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and a Ph.D. in English at Yale University. His work at Yale focused on 20th century African-American literature.Skerrett joined the University of Massachusetts, Amherst English Department in 1973. In 1974, Skerrett helped found and launch a new journal, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, which brought attention to a diversity of American literatures, and their \"interfaces.\""@en }
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- Joseph_Skerrett abstract "Joseph T. Skerrett (1943-July 25, 2015) is an American literary critic and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Much of his work centers on black studies, and his best-known book is the 2001 anthology Literature, Race and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities.Skerrett was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, and earned a Bachelor's degree at Saint Francis College in 1964. He then earned an M.A. in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in 1965, and a Ph.D. in English at Yale University. His work at Yale focused on 20th century African-American literature.Skerrett joined the University of Massachusetts, Amherst English Department in 1973. In 1974, Skerrett helped found and launch a new journal, MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, which brought attention to a diversity of American literatures, and their \"interfaces.\"".