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.
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| James Baldwin: Notes on the House of Bondage In November of 1980, James Baldwin’s essay “Notes on the House of Bondage” appeared in The Nation at a moment not unlike our current political landscape. Both Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were inadequate at best, and bankrupt at worst. According to Baldwin, A vote for Jimmy Carter was not an endorsement but a cold calculated risk, “a means of buying time” (1). Indeed one must always contend with time and space. .. | |
| Jesmyn Ward and the National Book Awards In 2011, the National Book Foundation awarded book awards in poetry and fiction to Nikky Finney and Jesmyn Ward, respectively. .. | |
| A Novel Ahead of Time The gatekeepers of American culture who think American literature is dying as their worlds hip hop to a start can find consolation in Mat Johnson’s Pym: A Novel (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010). .. | |
| Paul Robeson: Artist and Activist The Tallest Tree in the Forest, actor and playwright Daniel Beaty’s new one-man show about the life of African American actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson, ends with Beaty eulogizing Robeson with some of Robeson’s own words: “The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.” .. | |
| Looking Back: The Project on the History of Black Writing Over the past week, the Project on the History of Black Writing have released our Look Back Series as part of HBW’s 30 year anniversary... | |
| Michael Eric Dyson: 2000-2010 It is hard and sometimes impossible to imagine that a single scholar/public intellectual can publish as much as Michael Dyson has done... | |
| Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) Look Back Series—Featuring Michael Eric Dyson Since the publication of his first book, scholar and public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson has established himself as a force in the fields of cultural criticism, religion, philosophy, and communication studies... | |
| Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) Look Back Series—Featuring Eugene Redmond From Kwansabas and invocations, to documenting nearly 100,000 photographs, Eugene B. Redmond has been a force in the black artistic, cultural, and literary world. As poet laureate of East St... | |
| Eugene Redmond Timeline:1969-1977 As a continuation of HBW’s Look Back Series, I wanted to outline a timeline of what seems to be Eugene Redmond’s most productive years. Although this list is not exhaustive and only captures a small part of Redmond’s career, it highlights the great success that Redmond enjoyed from publishing several volumes of poetry, editing two anthologies, and publishing the seminal academic work on Black poetry. Aside from all of that, his status as Poet Laureate in East St. Louis continues to be a task/role that he takes seriously... | |
| Jerry Ward, Jr. Timeline: 2000-2013 Jerry Ward, Jr. Timeline: 2000-2013.. |