Black IssuesHomeDatabase Publisher Releases Top 10 Dissertation ListDatabase Publisher Releases Top 10 Dissertation ListANN ARBOR, Mich.A Michigan company that creates and distributes databases for libraries and educational institutions has released its annual Top 10 list of best-selling dissertations in 2002. Among the topics covered in the dissertations are health care, online banking, executive leadership and e-business. The No. 1 seller in 2002 […]November 5, 2003StudentsFederal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach EffortsFederal Grant Boosts Berkeley’s Environmental Outreach EffortsAs Mark Spencer sees it, students at the University of California-Berkeley have had too little guidance and resources to help them join community organizations in the San Francisco Bay area that are involved in environmental education and restoration projects. Spencer, a Ph.D. candidate in Forest Ecology at Berkeley’s College […]November 5, 2003HBCUsOur Collective Responsibility To Black MalesOur Collective Responsibility To Black MalesAs he went through cold-bath fields he saw a solitary cell; and the devil was pleased, for it gave him a hint for improving his prisons in hell. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writer and poetIn Cambridge, Mass., a speaker on race relations asked these questions: “Where are our young African […]November 5, 2003African-AmericanA Bonanza of Black JournalsA Bonanza of Black JournalsHere is a brief listing of Black journals. Most feature a mixture of literature and political and social commentary — though some, like Transitions, concentrate on essays. If you don’t see an old favorite of yours — like, for example, Mosaic — it may be because the publication is temporarily on […]November 5, 2003African-AmericanObsidian III: Literature in the African DiasporaObsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora• Affiliated with North Carolina State University• Dr. Joyce Pettis, ed.When Dr. Joyce Pettis took up the reins at Obsidian III in 2002, she was well aware that she was walking along a path trod by literary giants.There was Alvin Aubert, the poet pioneer — one of the first African American […]November 5, 2003African-AmericanWarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and IdeasWarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas•Published by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing, Chicago State University• Quraysh Ali Lansana, faculty adviser• Audrey Tolliver, senior editorWhen reached by telephone in his offices at Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Center, Quraysh Ali Lansana, the poet and assistant professor of English who directs the […]November 5, 2003African-AmericanBlack Renaissance/ Renaissance NoireBlack Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire• Edited and published by the Africana Studies Program and the Institute of African American Studies at New York University• Dr. Manthia Diawara, founder and editor in chief “I’m a child of African independence,” says Dr. Manthia Diawara, the Mali-born filmmaker and critic who’s also a professor of film and Africana studies at New […]November 5, 2003HomeAfrican American ReviewAfrican American Review• Official publication of the Division on Black Literature and Culture of the Modern Languages Association• Affiliated with Saint Louis University• Dr. Joe Weixlmann, ed.Dr. Joe Weixlmann, provost of Saint Louis University, clearly recalls what he felt his first task should be when he moved to Indiana State University in 1976 and was asked to take […]November 5, 2003African-AmericanCallaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and LettersCallaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters • Published by the Johns Hopkins University PressDown in College Station, Texas, the Callaloo offices are gearing up for another whirlwind of activity. For an upcoming issue on the arts and history of the Afro-Mestizos of Veracruz, Dr. Charles Rowell has an international launch planned: The […]November 5, 2003African-AmericanWriters’ RetreatWriters’ RetreatDespite the proliferation of Black authors and titles in today’s marketplace, many look to literary journals to carry on the torch for the written wordBy Kendra HamiltonImagine the African American writer as an endangered species. Impossible, you might say — not with Oprah’s smile selling magazines and books by the millions; not with bookstore […]November 5, 2003Previous PagePage 116 of 431Next Page
