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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 Open House and Jayhawk Sneak Peek Weekend On October 16 and 17, six prospective graduate students from across the United States visited KU as part of the second annual Jayhawk Sneak Peek Weekend, an initiative dedicated to increasing graduate student diversity in the English Department through recruiting students from traditionally under-enrolled populations. .. | |
| Afro-Latin@ Scholars and Writers: Junot Díaz Today, as National Hispanic Heritage Month draws to a close, the HBW Blog finishes out its series on Afro-Latin@ writers and scholars with a short consideration of Junot Díaz. .. | |
| LGBT History Month: Ann Allen Shockley’s Loving Her, 40 Years Later In honor of LGBT History Month, the HBW Blog will be featuring a series of posts on foundational queer texts by African American authors. First up: Ann Allen Shockley’s Loving Her (1974). .. | |
| 2014 Furious Flower Conference: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry There are no words—no poems–to adequately describe the experience of the Furious Flower conference. To be there was an honor. To hear poets read and scholars discuss was an immersion into the past and the future of African American poetry. .. | |
| From the HBW Archives: Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940), On the Page and On the Screen Here at the HBW offices, we’re working through the much-needed process of taking a complete re-inventory of our large collections of novels, plays, books of poetry, pamphlets, critical works, and other assorted African American cultural productions... | |
| Afro-Latin@ Writers and Scholars: Piri Thomas In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), the HBW Blog will be featuring short weekly posts on Afro-Latin@ writers and scholars. Today, we feature Nuyorican writer and poet Piri Thomas.. | |
| In Memoriam: J. California Cooper African American author and playwright J. California Cooper passed away on Saturday, September 20, 2014, in her home of Seattle, Washington. She was 82 years old. .. | |
| Afro-Latin@ Writers and Scholars: Edwidge Danticat A few months ago, Americas Quarterly published “The Dominican Republic and Haiti: A Shared View from the Diaspora,” a conversation between Junot Díaz and Edwidge Danticat in which the two writers respond to the groundbreaking ruling by the Dominican Constitutional Court that revoked the citizenship of Haitian labors living and working in the Dominican Republic. The discussion between Díaz and Danticat examines the tensions, trauma, and entangled histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. .. | |
| Sexual Assault in 3 Important Works by African American Women The historical realities of slavery in the United States created social conditions in which whites viewed Black bodies–particularly Black women’s bodies–as sexually available. As a result, African Americans have been subjected to sexual violence, both threatened and realized, at increased rates throughout U.S. history. .. | |
| Afro-Latin@ Writers and Scholars: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), the HBW Blog will be featuring short weekly posts on Afro-Latin@ writers and scholars. We begin our series with Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.. |