Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • Jump at de Sun The Nation 2003-01-30 Kristal Brent Zook Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf…

  • Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence University of Georgia Press May 2016 336 pages Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2 Author Website Edited by: Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Kidada E. Williams, Associate Professor of History Wayne State University,…

  • The “Highly Important Matter of Clothes”: Apparel and Identity in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand Fringe: The Noun That Verbs Your World Issue 19, Summer 2009 (2009-07-19) Kaley Joyes Nella Larsen’s novel Quicksand (1928) is saturated with clothing. This essay examines the ways in which Larsen uses fashionable apparel to map connections between racial identity and aesthetic…

  • “Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students The College at Brockport, State University of New York 2016-04-23 18 pages Jennifer Bradley Villanova University The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the…

  • Tribute to Prince Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni 2016-04-24 One Drop of Love pays tribute to the one and only Prince with: June Snow (& Billy), G. Reginald Daniel, Paul Spickard, Nancy Fathi, Michael Prewitt, Alex Regalado, Chandra Crudup and Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni

  • This is not a joke, but it starts like one: two men walk into an office. They have come to pitch an idea to a Hollywood mogul, an idea for a blockbuster movie. Sort of. Their idea is a docu-drama on George Washington Carver.

  • Film tells real-life story of Negroes “passing” as whites

  • Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.

  • Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution University of North Carolina Press April 2016 332 pages 6.125 x 9.25 24 halftones, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN: 978-1-4696-2672-7 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University Analyzing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during…

  • Thomas Jefferson spent years raping his slave Sally Hemings. A new novel treats their relationship as a love story. Vox 2016-04-08 Constance Grady A new historical novel about Thomas Jefferson is raising eyebrows. Stephen O’Connor’s Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings, which came out on Tuesday, is about our third president’s relationship with Sally Hemings,…