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From the Archives: A Black History Month Reading List

From the Archives: A Black History Reading List

For this Black History Month, we explored our Journals archive to build a reading list of articles dealing with Black history-making, archiving, and more. 

Featuring articles from a wide variety of Hopkins Press journals, including African American Review, American Quarterly, Callaloo, Children's Literature, Journal of Women's History, The Lion and the Unicorn, Mississippi Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Studies in the Novel and Theatre Topics.

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Won't You Celebrate with Me: Remembering Lucille Clifton

Toi Derricotte

Callaloo
Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2010

 

 

 

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Archives from the Black Diaspora: A Roundtable Discussion

Melanie Chambliss, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Alexsandra Mitchell

African American Review
Volume 54, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2021


 

 

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Constructing a Shared History: Black Pageantry for Children During the Harlem Renaissance

Katharine Capshaw Smith

Children's Literature
Volume 27, 1999

 

 

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The Tropological Infrastructure of Colson Whitehead’s Black Midwest

Christopher Leise

Studies in the Novel
Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2021

 

 

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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park

Perri Meldon

American Quarterly
Volume 72, Number 4, December 2020

 

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(Re)writing Histories in the Crossing: Natasha Trethewey’s Poetics of Loss

Faune Albert

Mississippi Quarterly
Volume 74, Number 2, 2021

 

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Creating During Crisis: The Development of the Black HERstory 101 Podcast

Crystal M. Moten

Journal of Women's History
Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2021

 

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“This Little Light of Mine”

Anthony Donaldson

The Sewanee Review
Volume 129, Number 4, Fall 2021

 

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Elizabeth Alexander's Amistad: Reading the Black History Poem through the Archive

Wendy W. Walters

Callaloo
Volume 33, Number 4, Fall 2010

 

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Schomburg's Library and the Price of Black History

Laura E. Helton

African American Review
Volume 54, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2021
 

 

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Upstage from Rosewood
Osceola was king of Florida

Michael S. Harper

Callaloo
Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 1997
 

 

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Resist & Rise: The One Love Method and Human Rights Performance

Ayshia Mackiestephenson

Theatre Topics
Volume 32, Number 3, November 2022
 

 

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Two Separate Hearts: Virginia Hamilton and the Black Arts Movement

Sara Austin

The Lion and the Unicorn
Volume 40, Number 3, September 2016
 

 

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Otherwise Lost or Forgotten: Collecting Black History in L. S. Alexander Gumby’s “Negroana” Scrapbooks

Kristin Gilger

African American Review
Volume 48, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2015
 

 

Written by: Rahne Alexander
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