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Books by Jerry W. Ward Jr.
Trouble the Water
(1997) /
Black Southern Voices (1992)
The Katrina Papers, by Jerry W.
Ward, Jr. /
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (2008)
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Books by Richard Wright
Richard Wright: Early Works /
Black Boy /
Native Son /
Uncle Tom's Children /
12 Million Black Voices /
Richard Wright: Later Works
The Outsider /
Pagan
Spain /
Black Power /
White Man Listen! /
The Color Curtain /
Savage Holiday /
The Long Dream
Eight Men: Short Stories /
Haiku /
American Hunger /
Lawd Today!
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Richard Wright Expert Jerry Ward Will Speak at SIUE
(East St. Louis & Edwardsville) on
June 26 & 28, 2007
In preparation for
the 2008 International Richard Wright Centennial, Dr.
Jerry W. Ward, Jr., a Wright expert and professor of
English and African World Studies at Dillard University
in New Orleans, will give presentations on Wright in
East St. Louis and Edwardsville (Illinois) on June 26
and 28. Both events are free.
On Tuesday, June
26, at 6:00 p.m., the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club
will host Ward in a workshop on Wright in the Library
(Building B) of SIUE’s East St. Louis Higher Education
Center, 601 J.R. Thompson Dr.
On Thursday, June
28, at 1:00 p.m., Ward will present a lecture and
workshop on Wright (and the “creative experience”) in
Peck Hall 2304 on SIU’s Edwardsville Campus. An East St.
Louis drum troupe and members of the Writers Club’s
Soular Systems Ensemble will also perform.
Wright (1908-1960),
a best-selling author whose novel “Native Son” (1940)
was the first book by an African American to become a
Book of the Month Club selection, wrote 16 works of
fiction, nonfiction (including “Black Boy,” 1955), and
poetry. He was born in Natchez, MS, and wound his way,
as a child, up through Memphis to Chicago where he wrote
“Native Son” (which also became a movie).
A seminal figure in
the development of modern African American literature
and activism, Wright influenced generations of
writers--including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Toni
Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Paule Marshall, Ishmael Reed,
and Alice Walker--and inspired the Civil Rights and
Black Arts/Black Power movements of the 1950’s and 60’s.
In addition to his
Richard Wright Centennial projects, Ward is writing new
articles for “Reading Race Reading America: Social and
Literary Essays” and new poems for JAZZ SOUTH. The
editor of “Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African
American Poetry,” he is co-editing the “Cambridge
History of African American Literature” with Maryemma
Graham of the University of Kansas. He is also a
co-founder of The Richard Wright Circle and Newsletter.
(In July, the EBR
Writers Club and “Drumvoices Revue” will issue a “Call
for Kwansabas for Richard Wright.” Selected kwansabas
(49-word, 7-line poems) will appear in the 2008 issue of
“DR,” which is co-published by the Club and SIUE.)
Sponsors of Ward’s
visit include SIUE’s College of Arts and Sciences,
Department of English, “Drumvoices Revue,” Black
Studies, and the EBR Writers Club. For more information
call SIUE/EBRWC at 618 650-3991. Email:
eredmon@siue.edu.
posted 23 June 2007
The Katrina Papers, by Jerry W.
Ward, Jr. $18.95 /
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (2008)
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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