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Release Date: April 14, 2004 This content is archived.
Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture, is interviewed on National Public Radio's "The Tavis Smiley Show" on toast, a traditional form of African-American poetry that often was boastful, raunchy and profane, and a tremendously important part of African-American literature and folklore. Listen to interview.