African American Review articles

Recent articles from African American Review

Out of St. Louie into the world unbound: an interview with Colleen J. McElroy.(Interview)
June 22, 2008... JLH: First, Dr. McElroy, let me thank you for agreeing to grant this interview. Please know that I truly appreciate your time and the opportunity to talk with you. May I begin by asking you what motivated you to become a writer? CJM: During the '60s, when there was a certain so-called...

This Jamaican family: the word, and dreams.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... But now, whether or not you accept it, you understand that this is finally the message, delivered by them in shouting silences and stiffened backs whenever you summon the bravery to refer, even obliquely, to that: the message, simply, that that, as far as they are concerned, doesn't exist in...

Lost theaters of African American internationalism: diplomacy and Henry Francis Downing in Luanda and London.(Report)
June 22, 2008... Recent critical approaches to the global travels and connections made by African American writers and texts have revealed much regarding black internationalism's relation to artistic innovation, U. S. imperialism, and the formation of black transnational consciousnesses. At the forefront of...

In memoriam Pinkie Gordon Lane.(In memoriam)
June 22, 2008... When Pinkie Gordon Lane passed away on December 3, 2008, Louisiana and the nation lost a gifted lyric poet, whose long and distinguished career as an educator, administrator, community leader, and racial pathbreaker culminated in her appointment as the first African American Poet Laureate of...

San Quentin, 1900.(Poem)
June 22, 2008... San Quentin, 1900 His life wasn't worth much, even less on the street where he looked but never found work. He was the first child of former slaves, born free, he was told, though he never saw the proof. There was gold in California, ...