THE COLLEGIUM FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH
Dear all, This month’s guest editorial has been written by Concepción Parrondo Carreter. A native of Malaga, Spain, she is an academic scholar whose focus of research centers on Contemporary African American Literature, an area in which she explores the
On the other side of the tracks: reflections upon the Old South. To be a stranger in a strange land has its advantages. Having moved to the US at the age of 21, I had the opportunity to take in
“No Writer’s House for James Baldwin” This editorial has been inspired by some thoughts and writing I have been chasing following my return visit, last June, to James Baldwin’s house, Chez Baldwin, in St. Paul-de-Vence in the south of France.
For many colleagues at German universities, the month of July brings the end of our teaching and presence in our classrooms because our summer term is over. July includes also the subsequent marathon of grading papers and exams. I am
La Rochelle, Liverpool, and the World On the occasion of the world soccer championship, I could not but pay attention to the French newspaper L’Equipe’s headlines which use history as the main metaphor and marker to talk about the balance
Dear all, this month’s guest editorial has been written by Yannick Blec. Yannick is a PhD student at the Université Paris-Est – Marne-la-Vallée, presently writing his dissertation about the visions of African American identities in William Melvin Kelley’s works. It
From a minority to another Two weeks ago, I was triflingly listening to some of my students’ conversation in high school. Because it was at the end of the last class before the spring break, I allowed myself to drift
Finding VertaMae Smart-Grosvenor: American Icon. Culinary Griot. Citizen of the World The Making of a Lowcountry Documentary I first met VertaMae Smart-Grosvenor in 2011 when she attended The Avery Research Center’s celebration of Julie Dash’s iconic film, Daughters of the
White Women Too. The film « 12 Years A Slave » won the Academy Award for best motion picture, becoming the first movie directed by a black director to take the highest trophy at the Oscars. It also claimed best adapted screenplay
Remembering Amiri Baraka I met Amiri Baraka in Granada, at a conference at the university, in the early 1990s. He spoke softly, interested in the world in which he lived, attentive to the new generations of poets, whom he supported