Archive - History of Black Writing Blog
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Black Literary History Making
The HBW Blog published regularly for ten years from 2011-2021 at the URL https://projecthbw.ku.edu. During that time, it served as a major forum for the exchange of information and ideas, as well as a robust network for scholars, teachers, and students from different disciplines around the world.
Guest contributors include leading scholars and writers, but most of the posts were conceived of, researched, and written by HBW's staff of undergraduate and graduate students. Its content consists of feature editorials, book reviews, memorials, and coverage of HBW programming. Altogether, 95 writers contributed more than 750 posts.
The HBW Blog Archive is searchable by topic, month and year, and contributor name.
| Blog Post/Link | Date |
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| HBW’s Own: Will Cunningham IV Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop Come check out Ph.D Candidate and HBW staffer Will Cunningham IV at the Hall Center for the Humanities. .. | |
| Project HBW Presents: A Digital Humanities Summit, Intro to XML Amy Earhart, associate professor of English and Digital Humanities at Texas A&M will outline how to create XML headers, the first step in harnessing XML for the Digital Humanities... | |
| Happy Birthday, Langston! James Mercer Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, MO. The famed poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist spent part of his childhood right here in Lawrence, KS. A new short film produced by KU Professor Madison Davis Lacy looks at Langston’s time here in Lawrence and how it helped to shape the trajectory of his renowned career. .. | |
| Gratitude WE MISSED YOU! As you might have noticed, we took an impromptu hiatus this winter. We took a step back to evaluate our goals, our ideas, and direction in this digital space. We are a fully-operational, student-led office at the University of Kansas that experienced great growth in 2016, but we still felt we weren’t doing quite enough to connect with you all. .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing (11/13-11/20) Maryemma Graham wrote a piece addressing the racial tensions across college campuses – “The Huck Finn Syndrome.” .. | |
| Book Review – The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists, William Ferris Fred Hobson suggested in Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain (1983) that Southerners have, or may be possessed by, a compulsion to explain, to apologize for, to defend, or to celebrate the history of a region which non-Southerners “have long been fascinated with…as spectacle, as land of extremes in the most innocent part of America in one respect and the guiltiest in another….”(9). .. | |
| The Inspiring Productivity of C. Liegh McInnis HBW Board Member and blog contributor, Howard Rambsy, describes his initial encounters with C. Liegh McInnis who exemplifies the “art of possible.” .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (11/1 – 11/6) Smith recounts an early mentoring experience and how Black literature continues to shape the “experience one has with racism in America.” Emphasizing the importance of Black women and male writers, Smith challenges us to continue questioning and redefining the literary cannon. .. | |
| ICYMI: October 2016 in Black Writing and Culture Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed new film Moonlight was released on the 21st. Based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, Jenkins takes viewers on an intimate look into the life of a young Black male growing up in Miami and unraveling his identity and sexuality... | |
| What Literary Scholars Can Learn from Rap Genius Among many useful outlets out there on the web, Rap Genius serves as one important model of a collaborative, digital database comprised of an expansive body of works featuring an African American art form. Rap Genius is akin to Wikipedia... |