Sonia Sanchez (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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Sonia Sanchez’s emergence as a writer and political activist in the 1960’s marked the beginning of the career of a poet, playwright, and cultural worker. Sanchez is noted as a poet and as a black activist committed to the belief that the role of the artist is functional. Sanchez’s political interpretation of the situation of African Americans informs the creative forms she produces. The activist spirit has remained a constant in her work.
Sonia Sanchez’s mother died when Sanchez was one year old. Her father, Wilson Driver, Jr., a jazz musician,...
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