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African-American
Transforming the Study of Literature — and Ourselves
The pursuit of the study of what we now call African American literature is its own story. The teaching of this radical and radicalizing literature is a parallel story that shares all of the problems and challenges of African American presence in the academy and in this nation.
African-American
Rooted Against the Wind. – book reviews
Rooted Against the Wind is a collection of essays in which Gloria Wade-Gayles takes us with her as she grapples with personal responses to some gripping issues: aging, rape, homophobia, where Black scholars should teach, and choosing to live in a Black community. Her responses are loving, sensible, and wise.
African-American
Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf. – book reviews
Golfing history is not high on the list of favored subjects for most Americans. Moreover, yet another painful recitation of the darker side of American history involving race relations is about as welcome to most people as a politician’s confession that taxes are going up. To his consummate credit, Calvin Sinnette succeeds not only in telling a story that needs to be told, but does so without rancor and with a style and grace that bespeaks his own love of the game of golf.
African-American
Whispers, Secrets and Promises. – book reviews
Love has strange powers; its control is unexplainable. Love can singe souls, lift spirits, weaken the most resistant knees with abrupt force. Love can inflate or deflate human hearts. Indeed, love can charge emotion into an abundance of affection. Poets have a way of rendering a clear view of love and how it affects those people where love harbors permanently or slips away to leave permanent scars.
African-American
When speech is truly free
When I walked into the newsroom of The Houston Post on August 16, 1972, there were only three other African Americans working at this major daily as full-time journalists. I was twenty-three years old, just two months out of school, armed with a master’s degree from the University of Illinois and the memories of growing up in segregated North Louisiana.
African-American
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
As entombed as most of our stories have been throughout American history, many of us know about the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr., or slavery and Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
African-American
Celebrating and deconstructing our educational progress
A recent Census Bureau report has good news about African American education. In Educational Attainment in the United States, the Census Bureau reported that 86.2 percent of African Americans ages twenty-five to twenty-nine were high school graduates in 1997, continuing an upward trend in the educational attainment of African Americans that began in 1940.
Students
The persistent madness of Greek hazing: psychologists provide insight on why hazing persists among Black Greeks – fraternities; includes related articles – Cover Story
Mary Polk of Maryland didn’t learn that her son Marcus had been hospitalized until he called his brother when he came out of the operating room on April 8.
Students
When hazing leads to death: one campus’ response – Southeast Missouri State University
All campus administrators face issues of hazing, some with more urgency than others. Southeast Missouri State University faced a worse crisis than most in 1994 when twenty-five-year old Michael Davis — a journalism major — died after two weeks of hazing at the hands of his Kappa Alpha Psi brothers.
African-American
The Afrocentric Idea, rev. and expanded ed. – book reviews
In this new edition of his book. The Afrocentric Idea, Dr. Molefi Kete Asante seeks to achieve three basic intellectual aims: first, to provide an expansive portrait of the Afrocentric idea; second, to address a new group of critics who have emerged in response to the expansive thrust of the movement he initiated; and third, to pose some concepts and categories for fruitful development of the discourse within the discipline of Black studies.
Faculty & Staff
Blues for blacks at Bluefield State: African Americans awkwardly strive to regain a presence at the nation’s whitest HBCU – historically black colleges and universities
More than one hundred years after the founding of Bluefield State College, the main campus remains poised high upon a hill above railroad tracks and overlooking the town’s business district. For generations, the children of Black families living largely in southern West Virginia earned college degrees from this small teacher’s college.
African-American
Bostonians squabble over headline – Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., is all over the place. He was a consultant to the movie Amistad and is a writer for New Yorker magazine, the featured guest in a BBC series on Africa, a book author, a department chairperson, and a professor. Described by many as an “intellectual superstar,” the million-dollar earner has put Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department on the map by attracting a “Dream Team” of mostly male scholars.
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