However, I think that many who take the literatures of African Americans into the classroom hope, like Harris, for a "willing engagement between colored and non-colored peoples." We hope that the literature will become the intellectual and emotional catalyst for a real transformation of our American selves -- the kind of transformation that challenges the hypocrisy of "diversity-speak" and encourages students to take what they have learned and apply it to their everyday lives.
Opal J. Moore teaches creative writing and African American literature at Spelman College.
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