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VèVè Clark

1944–2007

United States

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VèVè Amasasa Clark (December 14, 1944 – December 1, 2007) was an author and scholar who coined the phrase "diaspora literacy". She was a professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1991 until her death in 2007.

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