raceless characters, racial passing, and so on, viewing her works as a tool to advance Black causes. In wake of her discovered racial identity, however, many were left debating whether or not Kelley-Hawkins should be removed from the African American literary canon and possibly added to the Anglo-American literary canon. References Shockley, Ann Allen. Afro-American Women Writers 1746–1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide, New Haven, Connecticut: Meridian Books, 1989. External links Home page for The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Plastic.com: The Rise and Fall of Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins Boston Globe: Mistaken Identity by Holly Jackson National Genealogical Society Quarterly Volume 94, No. 1, March 2006 ŭA Case of Mistaken Racial Identity: Finding Emma Dunham (née Kelley) Hawkins. https://web.archive.org/web/20060601221354/http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/pubsquarterly.cfm (by Katherine E. Flynn, Ph.D., CG) History News Network: The Latest on Emma Dunham Kelley Hawkins (by Caleb McDaniel) The Truth About Emma Dunham Kelly-Hawkins (by Farai Chideya) (entry shows birthyear 1864, marker shows 1863) American women writers 1863 births 1938 deaths