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LLC African American Forum

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  • Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint

    Author(s):
    John Gruesser (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American Forum, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Publishers and publishing, Religious education, Education, Higher, Fiction, African American Baptists
    Item Type:
    Presentation

  • Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) Text

    Author(s):
    John Gruesser (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LLC African American Forum, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Publishers and publishing, Religious education, Baptists, Universities and colleges
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Novels, publishing

  • Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint

    Author(s):
    John Gruesser (see profile)
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    LLC African American Forum, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Publishers and publishing, Religious education, Fiction, Baptists
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Tag(s):
    Novels, Publishing

  • Of Dr. Shelby Steele and Others

    Author(s):
    Aldon Lynn Nielsen (see profile)
    Date:
    1990
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American Forum
    Subject(s):
    African Americans--Social life and customs, Culture--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    affirmative action debates, African American cultural studies

  • Impegno nero: gli intellettuali italiani e la lotta afroamericana

    Author(s):
    Charles L. Leavitt IV (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian, LLC African American Forum
    Subject(s):
    Italian literature, American literature--African American authors, Comparative literature, Literature, Modern, Civil rights, World War (1939-1945)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Italian fascism, Italian history, Italo Calvino, African American literature, Modern Italian literature, Translation studies, World War II

  • The Pedagogical Legacy of bell hooks

    Author(s):
    Danica Savonick (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    American Literature, Education and Pedagogy, LLC African American Forum, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Teaching, Feminist theory, Teaching
    Item Type:
    Newspaper article
    Tag(s):
    Pedagogy, Feminist pedagogy

  • Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas

    Author(s):
    Nicholas T Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Hemispheric American, LLC African American Forum, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, TC Translation Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Caribbean literature, Poetry, Translating and interpreting, Multilingualism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Poetry of the African diaspora, Black print culture, lyric, canon, Translation, Black diaspora, Black literature

  • On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes

    Author(s):
    Kristin Moriah (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    GS Drama and Performance, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American Forum, MS Opera and Musical Performance, MS Sound
    Subject(s):
    Blacks--Study and teaching, Atlantic Ocean Region, Women's studies, Feminist theory, Theater, History, Musical theater, Sound--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Black Atlantic, Black Performance, Vaudeville, Black Atlantic studies, Black diaspora, Black feminist theory, Theater history, Black studies, Sound studies

  • A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir

    Author(s):
    Whit Frazier Peterson (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Digital Humanists, LLC African American Forum, TC Digital Humanities, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Harlem Renaissance, Digital humanities, Satire, American literature--African American authors, Twentieth century, Celebrities--Study and teaching, Literary style--Statistical methods
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Wallace Thurman, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Author attribution, Basil Woon, 20th-century African American literature, Celebrity studies, Stylometry

  • “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice

    Author(s):
    Kate Pond (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC African American Forum, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Narration (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching, Racism, Mythology, Crowdsourcing, Social justice, Creative writing
    Item Type:
    Thesis
    Tag(s):
    ideation, Narrative studies, Narratology, Collaboration

  • Under Pressure: Reading Material Textuality in the Recovery of Early African American Print Work

    Author(s):
    Jonathan Senchyne (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    LLC 19th-Century American, LLC African American Forum, LLC Early American, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography, TM Libraries and Research
    Subject(s):
    Periodicals--Study and teaching, Slavery, Books, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    African American print culture, information labor, Periodical studies, Book history

  • Impegno nero: Italian Intellectuals and the African-American Struggle

    Author(s):
    Charles L. Leavitt IV (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian, LLC African American Forum, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Italian literature, Literature, Modern, Twentieth century, American literature--African American authors
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Modern Italian literature, 20th-century Italian literature, African American literature, 20th-century African American literature

  • Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature

    Author(s):
    Nicholas Rinehart (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    LLC African American Forum, TC Translation Studies, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Fiction, English literature, Nineteenth century, American literature--African American authors, Printing--Social aspects, Books, History, Intertextuality
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

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LLC African American Forum Executive Committee:

Jervette Ward, January 2023 (2021-January 2022 Chair)
Kristin Moriah, January 2024 (2021-January 2022 Secretary)
Sharon Lynette Jones, January 2025
Dorothy Tsuruta, January 2026
Julius Fleming, January 2027

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