{"id":62930,"date":"2022-02-01T23:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62930"},"modified":"2022-02-01T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T23:19:29","slug":"olivia-ward-bush-banks-and-new-negro-indigeneity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62930","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States<\/a>
Volume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2020<\/a>
pages 104\u2013128
Published: 03 July 2020
DOI: 10.1093\/melus\/mlaa033<\/a><\/p>\n

DeLisa D. Hawkes<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English
University of Texas, El Paso<\/em><\/p>\n

Among New Negro Renaissance<\/a> greats such as Zora Neale Hurston<\/a>, Countee Cullen<\/a>, Langston Hughes<\/a>, Paul Robeson<\/a>, and Wallace Thurman<\/a>, early twentieth-century African American newspapers referred to the Afro-Montauk<\/a> Olivia Ward Bush-Banks<\/a> as \u201cthe grand dame of the literati<\/a>\u201d (Byrd A8).1<\/sup> Her poetry and plays often feature representations of African American and Native American life and speculate on the ways these groups\u2019 interactions with each other influenced cultural and racial identity formation. The few scholars that remember her name today might argue that her earlier works reflect on her African-Native American heritage, while her later works focus exclusively on her African American culture (Grant).2<\/sup> However, Bush-Banks\u2019s writings on self- and imposed identities, spanning from the 1890s to the 1940s, challenge ideas about indigeneity, race, and…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Olivia Ward Bush-Banks and New Negro Indigeneity MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United StatesVolume 45, Issue 3, Fall 2020pages 104\u2013128Published: 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,3015,20],"tags":[31456,4259,14211,31203,31201],"class_list":["post-62930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-delisa-d-hawkes","tag-melus","tag-melus-multi-ethnic-literature-of-the-united-states","tag-olivia-ward","tag-olivia-ward-bush-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62931,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62930\/revisions\/62931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}