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Russell G. Hamilton

1934–2016

United States

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Russell G. Hamilton (born 1934, in New Haven, Connecticut – died February 27, 2016, in Minnesota) was an American author specialised in history and literature. He was a professor emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese and the first African-American to serve as a dean at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of Voices from an Empire: A History of Afro-Portuguese Literature, which was first published in 1975 and Literatura Africana, Literatura Necessária.

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