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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| Learning from a Postracial Moment: Notes from The University of Bielefeld Bielefeld University in the western part of Germany seemed an unlikely place to make a discovery. Teaching for 30 years, facing a new group of students on a regular basis is common practice for me. As far as I was concerned, my trip to the University of Bielefeld for an intensive 4 day seminar “Gender and Memoir” entailed another set of prepared lectures, knowing that I was going to a meet interesting students whose comprehension of what I had to say would come by way of translation. I had also prepared myself also to expect little of the nuance that comes when there is apparent cultural and/or ethnic reciprocity, even if the discussions are at a high level of sophistication. What could really happen in such a short span of time, I thought to myself... | |
| Our Poets are Our Dangerous Friends Our poets do many beneficial things for our commonweal. They teach in public schools, in colleges and universities, in alternative education programs, in community centers and churches and sites of ill-repute. When they feel generous, they call our attention to the works of other poets, to the writings of novelists, essayists, hard and soft scientists, and dramatists. When they feel bitter and small, they call attention only to their egos... | |
| Black Studies and Digital Humanities: A Growing List of Online Resources I am interested in online mediums, blogs in particular, can be used as a space to think through ideas when preparing larger publications, getting immediate feedback, and simply giving larger audiences access to new ideas and information. .. | |
| Mixtapes, Digital Humanities, and Black Studies In terms of hip-hop culture, mixtapes have always been a crucial part of how rappers and other musical artists produced and circulated their works beyond official channels. Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc, back in the day, and in more recent times Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, and Frank Ocean utilized mixtapes to get their works out to different publics. .. | |
| Access Stunts Digital Studies in Black Literature Last month, I attended THAT Camp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) hosted by the University of Kansas’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities. The three-day institute’s goal was geared towards equipping scholars/researchers with online resources to enhance how we study literature by building online databases, using text mining software, and the like... | |
| Rowan Ricardo Phillips: The Revenge of Unfinished Modernism | |
| Ishmael Reed and the American War of Words The October 3 presidential debate was a capital example of America’s war of words and visualized rhetoric. The spectacle was ulotrichy... | |
| On Richard Rorty’s Shadow of Pragmatic Hope Kevin Young promotes the idea of the lost shadow book in The Grey Album. “In some crucial ways,” according to Young, “the lost shadow book is the book that blackness writes every day. .. | |
| Natasha Trethewey and the Eyes of Historical/Poetic Consciousness | |
| Third Annual Black Aesthetics as Politics: Call for Presentations Black ExistentialismS: Situating Black Existential Philosophy.. |