07 Dec The Promises and Perils of U.S. African American Hemispherism
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07 Oct “Charged with Sympathy for Haiti”
This essay marks the Haitian Revolution as a climactic point in history for African Americans because it created a new outlook on the connection and disconnections between people of African descent in varying areas....
07 Oct “More than McKay and Guillen: The Caribbean in Hughes and Bontemps’s The Poetry of the Negro”
The essay critically analyzes the first edition of The Poetry of the Negro, a collection of poems coedited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps in 1949. The essay also takes a closer look at the questions and answers that arise in the collection, including the...
07 Oct Bilingualism, Blackness, and Belonging
The text builds on the discussion of the balancing of multiple languages by Latin-American descended populations, identifying race as “a factor in Afro-Latin American cultural producers’ decisions about which language to use and when.”...