literature - AAIHS

Haiti, Cultural Politics, and US Occupation

April 18, 2018April 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Haiti, imperialism, literature, poetry

Haiti’s intellectual dissidents played an instrumental role in advocating the Haitianization of Haiti–the embrace of Haitian culture, peasant life, and

Broad Sympathies in a Narrow World: A New Book on the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

March 26, 2018April 2, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere art, black politics, Black women, literature, poetry, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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

Constructions of Africa in Early Soviet Children’s Literature

October 31, 2017November 4, 2017 Raquel G. Greene Black October, literature, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora The political and social