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King's speeches may seem like part of the American political canon now, but in the despair of the early '60s, they could appear toothless next to Malcolm's rhetorical daggers.
Dufu (formerly spelled Tufu) lived from 712 to 770 and wrote more than 1,400 poems, many of them regarded as the greatest in the Chinese canon.
I am a canon builder," he told me.
With Africana , where Gates and Appiah, rather sentimentally and opportunistically, see themselves as the descendants of Du Bois, whose unfilled dream was to produce such a book, Gates seems to have cornered the market on black reference books that shape the canon of black studies, that define the field and its major players.
Donald Foster is the best-known scholar here, thanks to his successful exposure of Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors and his advocacy of the awful "Funeral Elegy" as a part of Shakespeare's canon.