Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-

LC control no.	n 79075150
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Personal name heading	Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Baker, Houston A.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1943-03-22
Place of birth	Louisville (Ky.)
Affiliation	Howard University University of California, Los Angeles University of Pennsylvania Modern Language Association of America
Profession or occupation	Poets Editors College teachers
Found in	Black literature in America, 1971. Blues, ideology, and Afro-American literature, 1984: CIP t.p. (Houston A. Baker, Jr.) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1943) Betrayal, 2008: t.p. (Houston A. Baker, Jr.) The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Baker, Houston A., Jr.; poet, literary critic, cultural critic, book editor / publisher, educator; born 22 March 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States; matriculated at Howard University, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; PhD in English at the University of California at Los Angeles (1968); moved to the University of Pennsylvania (1974), became a chaired professor in the humanities (1982), and director of the Center for the Study of Black Literature and Culture (1986); was at the center of American academic debates in the 1980s and 1990s about race, culture, and class; president of the Modern Language Association (1992))