Tag: Olivia Ward Bush-Banks

  • Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesVolume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2020pages 104–128Published: 03 July 2020DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlaa033 DeLisa D. Hawkes, Assistant Professor of EnglishUniversity of Texas, El Paso Among New Negro Renaissance greats such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and Wallace Thurman, early…

  • In The Problem of the Prism, I argue that activist writers challenged the normalizing of white supremacy and imagined black futurity within the intersections of racial visibility, nation, and culture by transforming and repurposing racist and colorist ideologies. Through a wide range of cultural materials, I recuperate overlooked discourses on race and color by broadening…

  • Everyone is influenced by their cultural background, either through acceptance, rejection, or some combination of the two.

  • Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and the Dualism of African and Native American Identity Amistad Research Center Tilton Hall, Tulane University 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 2014-09-24 Chianta Dorsey The birth of the African American literary condition occurred in 1773 with the publication of Phyllis Wheatley’s book of poetry and has evolved into a…