Literature - AAIHS

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Representation of Black Higher Education

February 21, 2018February 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, reconstruction, South, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In a previous post for Black Perspectives, I wrote

On W. E. B. Du Bois and Poetry

February 20, 2018February 24, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, black politics, Pan-Africanism, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. At Carnegie Hall on February 23, 1964, Lorraine Hansberry

W. E. B. Du Bois, Aesthetics, and the Weird

February 20, 2018February 24, 2018 Britt Rusert #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, Literary studies, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. The stature and prominence of W. E. B. Du

African American Novelist Frank Yerby’s Writings on Race

January 31, 2018February 4, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Civil War, literature, poverty, reconstruction, South

African American novelist Frank Yerby grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended Paine College. Later he attended Fisk University and taught briefly

Cosmic Literacies and Black Fugitivity

December 20, 2017December 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr astronomy, fugitivity, Resistance, slavery

Star-gazing as a practice of fugitivity has a long history for Black Americans. According to folklore, spirituals like “Foller de