African American Literature

The Incendiary Feeling of Freedom: On Phillis Wheatley Peters and the Poetry of Survival

Tiana Clark: “I believe it is through our collective imagination where we can remain free and where no one can touch us.”

 
By Tiana Clark  January 28, 2025
African American Literature

“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

By Yogita Goyal  May 21, 2024
African American Literature

The History of the United States According to Colson Whitehead

By Alexander Manshel  November 21, 2023
African American Literature

A Book List for Black Dreams and Black Time

By Gabrielle Civil  February 25, 2022
African American Literature

Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

By Tayari Jones  May 13, 2021
African American Literature

How Nellie Y. McKay Forged a Path for the Study of African American Literature

By Shanna Greene Benjamin  April 12, 2021

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