A Century of Greatness: The Best African American Literary Anthologies
Black writers have produced an incredible number of brief stories over the last century. My book, The Geographies of African American Short Stories, explains...
Black Boy and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz
In the summer of 2016, in the sweltering New Haven heat, I had a chance encounter that would change my life.
I had decided that...
The Black Box: Writing the Race
Gates adroitly demonstrates how literature served as a...
How Ralph Ellison Brought the Complexity of the American Experience to Europe
Few contemporary writers enjoyed the literary diplomatic status accorded Ralph Ellison during the 1950s. From an appointment at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies...
Africaville
The opening pages of Colvin’s Africville provide an...