Matthew Teutsch - AAIHS

African American Novelist Frank Yerby’s Writings on Race

January 31, 2018February 4, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Civil War, literature, poverty, reconstruction, South

African American novelist Frank Yerby grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended Paine College. Later he attended Fisk University and taught briefly

Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life

January 5, 2018January 8, 2018 Matthew Teutsch black politics, Black women, civil rights, lynching, Racial Violence, segregation

Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I

Interracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary

November 18, 2017November 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch film, Interracial relationships, masculinity

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In 1969, the first interracial sex scene

Land, Literature, and Preserving Black History in Louisiana

October 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Matthew Teutsch Historical Memory, Literary studies, literature, Louisiana

Driving along False River on Louisiana Highway 1, you will see summer homes, boat houses, and cabins nestled close to

The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop

September 20, 2017September 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, music, slavery

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between