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The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African American Literature

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION: Historical and Cultural Recovery: Eighteenth-Century Scholarship ...
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Opinion: F. Willis Johnson: African American literature matters

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. However, in this reflective season, we find ourselves at a crossroads that would be ...
The New York Times

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature’s ‘Black Box’

In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their reality despite constraints imposed on them from outside. By Tope Folarin Tope ...
Badger Herald

‘250 Years of Phillis Wheatley’: Where African-American literary history began

In 1773, London’s presses produced a small book with a portrait of a young woman, among many other similar copies. The woman wore a respectable bonnet across her forehead, lost deep in thought while ...
Worcester Magazine

Exclusive: For two academicians, MLK's slaying transformed their careers

Barbara and Serge Paul-Emile of Berlin were in academia when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated ... and then everything ...