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Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 Anna Hinton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, literature

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Black Madness ::

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Madness Has the Range

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Zandria F. Robinson #BlackMadness, black feminism, Black Studies, blackness, disability, Disability Studies, Literary studies, literature, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness You live, you

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Holloway House and the Black Literary Underground

December 5, 2019November 30, 2019 Matthew Teutsch book review, culture, literature, popular culture, publishing, race

How do authors such as Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) and Donald Goines go from catering to white audiences with “black

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The Taproot Remains: On the Life and Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines

November 7, 2019November 6, 2019 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, cults, Deep South, Ernest Gaines, library, literature, Louisiana, South

On an acre of land, in South Louisiana, surrounded by sugar cane fields, Ernest J. Gaines will be laid to

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Creating Digital Space for Black Scholarship

October 17, 2019October 9, 2019 Black Book Interactive Project Scholars archives, black intellectual history, digital media, education, literature

This year, within a week, we lost two geniuses: Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall. But at least their words circulate,

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