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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Aderson Francois black intellectual history, James Baldwin, literature, race, racism

James Baldwin died on November 30, 1987, at his home in Saint Paul de Vence, a small village on the

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Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction

August 3, 2018August 8, 2018 Grace D. Gipson Afrofuturism, black feminism, Black women, blackness, disability, Gender, intersectionality, literature

“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there

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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Sharla M. Fett literature, slave trade, slavery, Zora Neale Hurston

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

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“Freedom, Equality, and Race”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 28, 2018July 1, 2018 Marisa Parham #JeffreyFerguson, black intellectual history, Black Studies, literature

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March

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