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 |
|---|---|
| Break It Down—Explaining Black Novels ♦Break It Down: Song of Solomon—June 4, 2012 ♦Break It Down: Invisible Man—June 5, 2012 ♦Break It Down: Go Tell It on the Mountain—June 6, 2012 ♦Break It Down: Apex Hides the Hurt—June 7, 2012.. | |
| Public Events with HBW and the University of Kansas ♦Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself—April 18, 2011 ♦The KU Organizer—Professor Tony Bolden—January 19, 2012 ♦Make It Funky III—Professor Adam Bradley—January 19, 2012 ♦The Black Arts Enterprise—Professor Howard Rambsy—January 19, 2012 ♦Nikky Finney: The Role of the Writer and Critic—September 12, 2012.. | |
| Digital Humanities ♦Mixtapes, Digital Humanities, and Black Studies—October 17,2012 ♦Black Studies and Digital Humanities: A Growing List of Online Resources—October 18, 2012 ♦Text Mining: Two Short Stories By Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright—November 12, 2012 ♦Access Stunts Digital Studies in Black Literature—October 15, 2012 ♦Digital Humanities: Blogging About Black Culture—September 26, 2011 ♦Digital Perspective—March 28, 2011.. | |
| Various Entries on Black Literature and Rap Genius ♦Rap Genius and Black Literature—March 25, 2013 ♦7 Ways that Rap Genius Assists Digital African American Literary Scholarship—April 2, 2013 ♦Follow Up: 7 Links That Demonstrate Rap Genius’s Connection To Digital African American Literary Scholarship—April 3, 2013 ♦Jay-Z, Zora Neale Hurston, and Rap Genius: African American Expressive Culture and “Swag”—April 15, 2013 ♦What Literary Scholars Can Learn from Rap Genius—October 16,2012.. | |
| The Coverage Of…Various Subjects in Black Culture and Literature ♦The Coverage of… Manning Marable and Malcolm X—April 19,2011 ♦The Coverage Of…The Passing of Gil Scott-Heron—June 6,2011 ♦The Coverage Of…GIl Scott Heron’s Video Interviews—June 7,2011.. | |
| Oprah Winfrey and African American Literature ♦Oprah Winfrey and Black Literature—March 8, 2011 ♦Timeline: Oprah Winfrey and African-American Literature—May 29, 2012 ♦Oprah Winfrey: A Sponsor of African American Novelists—May 29, 2012 ♦Oprah’s Book Club and Toni Morrison—May 30, 2012 ♦Oprah Winfrey and The Color Purple—May 31, 2012 ♦Oprah Winfrey–A Sponsor of Black Artistic Culture—June 20,2012 .. | |
| ICYMI: The Last 3 Weeks in Black Writing (7/13 – 8/3) The HBW Blog didn’t post ICYMI for 3 weeks while staff members were preparing for and working on the NEH Summer Institute Black Poetry After the Black Arts Movement. Since it has now concluded, we return to the regular blog schedule! .. | |
| The Revolution Will Be Live: African American Literature and Spoken Word Poetry As I continue to research various poems and poetic texts, I am continuously inspired to discuss African American poetry’s impact on the public sphere as well as within Literature and the Humanities. As an African American poet who enjoys experimenting with both the written and the spoken, my research continues to examine the ways in which “the contemporary landscape of poetry reflects a paradigmatic shift away from the prevailing model of written and/or academic poetry and more toward spoken word poetries (Why Study African American Literature)”... | |
| Daniel Black’s ‘Perfect Peace’ In Perfect Peace (2010), contemporary novelist Daniel Black poses a series of interesting questions: What is gender? How is it constructed? What if a backwoods mother of six boys raises her seventh boy as a girl? And what if she convinces everyone that he (she) is a girl?.. | |
| 6 Texts That Aid in the Study of African American Literature After returning from the College Language Association (CLA), I wondered what I should write blog about this week. I learned so many new things through networking and listening to my colleagues and professors speak, and I wondered how I could take all of it in and simultaneously offer knowledge to others... |