Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature
Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the
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Literature
The Continuities of Beatriz Nascimento’s Black Radical Thought
This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. It is not a stretch to
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Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways
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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2
For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews
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Black Women’s Cultural Production: An Interview with Robin Brooks
Today’s post features Robert Greene II’s, senior editor of Black Perspectives, interview of Robin Brooks on her new book, Class
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