Archive - History of Black Writing Blog
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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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| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (9/10 – 9/16) KU Today: Metadata Project to Seek Trends, Themes in African-American Literature highlighted HBW’s Black Book Interactive Project, an NEH-funded collaborative research project that seeks to increase the number of black-authored texts in the study of digital humanities... | |
| Throw Your Head Back and Sing: A Tribute to Maya Angelou On Thursday, September 29th at the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts at James Madison University, performers will honor and pay tribute to the work of acclaimed poet Maya Angelou. Angelou is perhaps best known for her non-fiction work I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) and her Pulitzer Prize nominated collection Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Die (1971).. | |
| Teaching Between the World and Me in a Literature Survey Course “American Literature” means white, or at least it has been for much of its formal study. I attempt to redress this with the content of my syllabus, and I let my students know that this problem is in some ways a subtle overture for the entire class... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (9/3 – 9/9) From Dashka Slater over at Mother Jones, comes another think piece about the lack of diversity in children’s literature and the ever present need to address the problem... | |
| 50th Anniversary of International Literacy Day: “Reading the Past, Writing the Future” Fifty years ago, UNESCO launched an international engagement campaign to recognize the efforts and progress made to increase literacy rates around the world. In honor of these efforts and the 50th anniversary of International Literacy Day, here are 10 favorites on HBW’s fall reading list... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (8/27 – 9/2) Marc Lamont Hill explores the history behind the litany of recent police killings. Check out the New York Times review of Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (8/20 – 8/26) The original “flyboy” Greg Tate returns with a masterful collection of his most poignant essays in Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader. Since starting his career at the Village Voice in the 80s, Tate has become one of the most influential writers in Black popular culture.. | |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me: KU Common Book 2016-17 Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s critically acclaimed second book and the winner of 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction has been chosen by the University of Kansas as the 2016-2017 common book... | |
| ICYMI: The Last Few Weeks in Black Writing and Culture (July 31-August 18) After a brief break, we’re back! We at Project HBW look forward to bringing you the latest content in black writing and culture... | |
| Toni Morrison and Her Role as Editor: A Toni Morrison Society Conference Report The seventh biennial conference presented by the Toni Morrison Society took place in New York City from July 21-24, 2016. The previous conference was held in 2010 in Paris, France with the theme “Toni Morrison and Circuits of the Imagination,” and its return was nothing short of outstanding... |