Posts Tagged with ‘African-American’
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Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup, and other Slave Narratives
23 Oct 2021Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, published in 1854, was somewhat of a sensation that year, selling over 30,000…
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The Man Who Lived Underground – Richard Wright
25 Sep 2021Richard Wright’s recently published The Man Who Who Lived Underground, (2021),was itself buried for years in the catacombs of Yale’s…
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Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
18 Sep 2021The title line in Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) comes a good way into the novel. …
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Black Boy – Richard Wright
27 Aug 2021It occurred to me as I was listening to a wonderful reading of Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945) that it…
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Begin Again – Eddie S. Glaude Jr
11 Aug 2021Eddie Glaude Jr. is one of a vital new wave of Black American writers¹. Though he primarily writes of religion…
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James Baldwin: Going to Meet the Man
26 Aug 2020For many, James Baldwin will be most recently familiar from the 2016 documentary by Raoul Peck, “I Am Not Your…
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Reading the Classics: Zora Neale Hurston
06 Jul 2020The fight over what are the “essential” books to read in the world-as-it-is-becoming, is at least several generations old. The…
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“The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed”
02 Jul 2020“Why do you have your guns out?” – Kenneth Chamberlain, 66 “What are you following me for?” – Trayvon Martin,…
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James Baldwin: The Voice and the Image
23 Mar 2017Listening to Adam Lazzare-White read James Baldwin’s Go Tell it On the Mountain, is as close to being in a…
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Movies: Documenting the Black Experience
17 Mar 2017Two documentary films from 2016 have made important splashes in the sea of movies available this year, not as big…
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Movies: Black Fiction, Black History
22 Feb 2017What a great couple of months it’s been for movies about the African-American experience. The African-American Film Critics Association calls 2016…
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The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
26 Jan 2017Somehow, in all my years of reading, Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man, 1952, never entered my great river of books, even having…
