#richard wright
Powerful currents: John Wilson’s “Down by the Riverside” prints, currently on view as part of “Stories to Tell,” “help demonstrate the haunting timeliness of their depiction of displacement, separation and loss, tragedy, and desperate hope."
https://ransom.center/john-wilson-prints
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“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” - quote from “Black Boy” by author, Richard Wright
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FREE BOOK!!
The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
Anna Pochmara
Amsterdam Univerity Press, 2013
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“The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in America and was marked by an outpouring of African American art, music, theater and literature.
Drawing on African American texts, archives, unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book highlights both the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture such as W. E. B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and other writers such as Wallace Thurman, who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significant contributions to the movement.”
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chapter One: Prologue: The Question of Manhood in the Booker T. Washington-W. E. B. Du Bois Debate
Part 1: Alain Locke and the New Negro
Chapter Two: Midwifery and Camaraderie: Alain Locke’s Tropes of Gender and Sexuality
Chapter Three: Arts, War, and the Brave New Negro: Gendering the Black Aesthetic
Part 2: Wallace Thurman and Niggerati Manor
Chapter Four: Gangsters and Bootblacks, Rent Parties and Railroad Flats: Wallace Thurman’s Guide to the Black Bourgeoisie
Chapter Five: Discontents of the Black Dandy
Chapter Six: Epilogue: Richard Wright’s Interrogations of the New Negro
Conclusion: Black Male Authorship, Sexuality, and the Transatlantic Connection
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Curriculum Vitae
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books read in 2016 - 2017: native son by richard wright
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed…It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.
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