Candice Carty-Williams’ Queenie navigates dating as a Black woman, living in a Black body, and what it’s like to straddle two cultures while never really feeling as though you fit.
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In an interview, scholar Alyssa Collins explains how her time spent plumbing the sci fi writer’s papers left her stunned by the breadth of her interests and the depth of her scientific knowledge.
Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and editors what they want, or wallow in obscurity.
Three decades after poet Frank X. Walker coined the term ‘Affrilachia,’ the region’s poets and artists continue to create work that probes the world of a people long ignored.
Interest in Black British writing has grown and shrunk since the late 1940s. Is the current wave going to crash like those before it?
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Lecturer in British Black and Asian Literature, Queen Mary University of London
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Assistant Teaching Professor of English, West Virginia University
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Instructor of Gender & Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies, University of South Carolina
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Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina
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Associate Lecturer, Creative Writing, Queensland University of Technology
