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Valerie Smith

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Biography of Valerie Smith

Valerie Smith (born February 19, 1956) is the president of Swarthmore College. She is the author of Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative; Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings; and Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination.

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8 Books by Valerie Smith


Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1)

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2)

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall (Editors)

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.

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Book Cover Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination by Valerie Smith

Toni Morrison

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Book Cover Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings by Valerie Smith

Not Just Race, Not Just Gender

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Book Cover Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative by Valerie Smith

Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative

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