“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature
A novel about a mother in southeastern Nigeria discovering her son’s body at her door that starts out as a murder mystery, but then...
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
... essential book ... White does two...
Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad
Walker’s book constructs a lineage of Black Americans...
How Michele Wallace Sought Black Women’s Liberation Through Art
An extended community nurtured the achievements of The Sisterhood. Many other Black feminist groups and individual intellectuals in the 1970s and early 1980s shared...
Please Stop Talking About the “Rise” of African Science Fiction
Whenever I see an article that starts with “The Rise of. . .” I think of dough. When it’s applied to African science fiction,...