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.
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| A Recap of Johanna Drucker’s “Digital Humanities: A Status Report With Questions” On Thursday, October 29th, Johanna Drucker, the Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies at UCLA, gave a provocative presentation, “Digital Humanities: A Status Report With Questions.” The large, diverse crowd, including majors ranging from English to computer science, along with faculty and staff from an assortment of CLAS fields, not only demonstrates the breadth of DH but also the success of collaborative ventures like this one, sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities, EGARC, and the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities. .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (10/23-10/30) Last semester we posted an interview highlighting HBW’s very own Crystal Bradshaw. After much anticipation, Crystal’s memoir, Eliza: A Generational Journey, was recently released. Be on the lookout for a review of Crystal’s book early next week! .. | |
| Robert Warrior and Indigenous Intellectual Health: A Recap On Tuesday, October 20th, the University of Kansas welcomed Robert Warrior as he spoke on his latest research at the Hall Center for the Humanities. Dr. Stephanie Fitzgerald, professor of Native American literature at KU, had the honor of introducing Dr. Warrior... | |
| The Project on the History of Black Writing Presents: A Webinar with Sharan Strange Please join the University of Kansas’ Project on the History of Black Writing and the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute “Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement” as we present our first 2015 webinar with poet Sharan Strange. .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (10/16-10/23) Kevin Powell, author of recent memoir The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood, offered an excerpt from his book to the Huffington Post. If you haven’t had a chance to read the book, you can read an excerpt from chapter two here. .. | |
| The Project on the Future of Black Writing: Portia Owusu Editor’s Note: HBW consistently seeks out new and upcoming scholars that contribute to the canon of black literature. We feel that this new generation of scholars is crucial to both adding to and critiquing existing scholarship. HBW presents The Project on the Future of Black Writing. .. | |
| Calling All Writers: Project HBW Wants You! The Project on the History of Black Writing is always looking for innovative works to post to our blog. We publish critical works, book reviews, creative pieces, and many other works relevant to black writing and culture. Please review older and archived posts to get an idea of what we typically post. If you would like to contribute to the HBW blog, send your work to projectonhbw@gmail.com. Submitted works should be between 4-6 paragraphs in length, and HBW reserves the right to edit works before they go live. .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last Week in Black Writing and Culture (10/9-10-16) Author Marlon James became the first Jamaican born writer to win the Man Booker prize. Marlon’s book, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is an epic retelling of the 1976 assassination attempt on Bob Marley. Listen to James’s interview with NPR here. .. | |
| Situation Report from a Culture of Reading: Part 2 To the slave, revolution is an imperative, a love-inspired, conscious act of desperation. It’s aggressive. It isn’t “cool” or cautious. It’s bold, audacious, violent, an expression of icy, disdainful hatred! It can hardly be any other way without raising a fundamental contradiction... | |
| ICYMI: The Week in Black Writing and Culture (10/2-10/9) Dr. Jerry W. Ward Jr. reviewed author Kevin Powell’s newest book, The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood. Last week was Banned Books Week. See HBW’s recap here. At the New Yorker festival, Toni Morrison spoke out on topics ranging from her writing to race relations, both past and present... |