Miriam DeCosta-Willis | Academic Influence

Why Is Miriam DeCosta-Willis Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Miriam DeCosta-Willis was an American educator, writer, and civil rights activist. The first African-American faculty member at Memphis State University, having previously been denied admission to the school as a graduate student due to her race, she spent her career as a professor of Romance languages and African-American studies at a variety of colleges in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Washington, D.C., area. She published more than a dozen books throughout her career, largely dealing with Afro-Latino literature and Black Memphis history.

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Miriam DeCosta-Willis's Published Works

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Published Works

Ligand-binding radioassay for the antifolate compounds: application in patients receiving methotrexate. (1977) (11)
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays. (1978) (10)
Conformationally Restrained Chiral PNA Conjugates: Synthesis and DNA Complementation Studies (1999) (8)
Vernonia Oil Characterization and Polymerication, and Simultaneous Interpenetrating Polymer Networks Based on Vernonia Oil-Sebacic Acid/Polystyrene-DVB Compositions (1983) (7)
Canebrake and Cotton Field: Thematic Parallels between Afro-Hispanic and Afro-American Poetry (1976) (4)
Blacks in Hispanic Literature (1978) (3)
Nicolas Guillen and His Poetry for Afro-Americans. (1973) (2)
Consanguineous marriage and pregnancy outcomes in western Sydney, 1999. (2001) (2)
Historical and Literary Views of Yusuf, African Conqueror of Spain (1975) (1)
Consortia Arrangements: The Benefits to a Department of Foreign Languages (1975) (0)
The Use of African Folklore in Hispanic Literature (1977) (0)

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