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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| Black Literary Suite Kick-Off: Black Writers with a Kansas Connection On Wednesday, February 25, from 3 – 4:30 p.m., HBW and the KU Libraries co-hosted Black Literary Suites: Black Writers with a Kansas Connection. .. | |
| Remembering Anne Moody (Sept. 15, 1940 – Feb. 5, 2015) Four years after graduating from Tougaloo College, the young Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). It is noteworthy that this autobiography has been “in-print” and acclaimed since its initial publication. Similar life histories of civil rights workers, both autobiography and biography, have come and gone, getting enthusiastic receptions when they first appear. But after a few years, enthusiasm wears thin. The eagerly received life histories age rapidly and virtually disappear. .. | |
| HBW Emerging Scholars: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the “Slave Narrative” Genre The HBW Emerging Scholars series offers graduate student scholars the chance to share pieces that speak to their own critical interests in more depth than usual blog posts. Today’s post is by University of Kansas graduate student Amanda M. Sladek, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition. .. | |
| ICYMI: This Week in Black Writing (2/14 – 2/20) – Jerry W. Ward, Jr. told us how Shakespeare lives on in FOX’s new show Empire. .. | |
| Black Literary Suite: Black Writers with a Kansas Connection Langston Hughes. Gwendolyn Brooks. Frank Marshall Davis. Kevin Young. What do they have in common? At various points in their lives, each of them lived in Kansas. Brooks stayed for mere weeks, only living here for a month after she was born, while the others lived in Kansas for years... | |
| Shakespeare: His Blackwashing Many years ago, most people who earned a Ph.D. in English had to study the works of William Shakespeare. That was a good thing. The requirement ensured that a British-rooted variety of cultural literacy would circulate in the Profession. It could trickle down, through the public schools and Classic Comics, to the American common reader. .. | |
| ICYMI: This Week in Black Writing (2/7 -2/13) – HBW Staff Members gave recommendations on black-authored books to read for the National African American Read-In. .. | |
| Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement: A Closer Look The Project on the History of Black Writing is excited to announce our 2015 Summer Institute, Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. .. | |
| Reading List: Staff Recommendations for the National African American Read-In Looking for a way to celebrate Black History Month? The National African American Read-In began on Sunday, February 1, and will go through Saturday, February 28. .. | |
| ICYMI: This Week in Black Writing (1/31 – 2/6) – Toni Morrison released a new short story, “Sweetness,” through The New Yorker. .. |