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This work contains essays, which discuss works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde, as well as Afro-American women's fiction, poetry and biographies in general, and the place of African-American women in literature. She was a daughter of Ruth Christian and Alphonso Christian, a judge. Later, despite the fact, that her parents urged her to pursue medicine, Christian enrolled in graduate studies in literature at Columbia University in New York City.

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There, Barbara became a good friend of Langston Hughes and was introduced to the works of African-American writers. At the beginning of her career, when Barbara was a student of Columbia University, she taught English briefly during and at both the College of the Virgin Islands present-day University of the Virgin Islands and Hunter College.

In , after receiving her Doctor of Philosophy degree, Christian was made an assistant professor of English at the City College. In , Barbara moved to the University of California, Berkeley, as an assistant professor. The same year, in , Christian acted as a founding member and instructor at the University Without Walls. She held a post of an instructor there until In , Barbara was instrumental in the creation of the African-American Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught until her death.

In , she was made a chairwoman of the department, a post she continued to hold until In , Christian was promoted to the post of a full professor, the first woman of African descent to do so.

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From to , she led Berkeley's new doctoral program in ethnic studies. During her career, Barbara also lectured extensively in Japan, Germany, France, Canada and other countries. Barbara Christian was a renowned pioneer of contemporary American literary feminism, educator, author and editor of several books and articles and reviews.