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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 709–737.
Published: 01 December 2015
.... This essay posits that debates over the methods of African American higher education shaped the function of literature within black modernity. It explores how Tuskegee Institute founder Booker T. Washington transformed literature and books into instruments of a practical approach to learning through...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 509–545.
Published: 01 September 2011
...,
D.C., public schools, the Hampton Institute, the Carlisle Indian Indus-
trial School, and the Tuskegee Institute. Johnston’s photos of African
American and American Indian students at Hampton in the winter
of 1899–1900 won a Grand Prix award at the Paris Exposition Uni...
Journal Article
The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of Black Folk ’s profile of Alexander Crummell, and Paul Laurence Dunbar recited four poems (see Washington 1996 : 123; and Du Bois Papers, Series 1A: General Correspondence, MS 312). The event was designed to pay tribute to the Tuskegee Institute, symbol of both Washington’s educational philosophy...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 321–355.
Published: 01 June 2000
... in an Alabama freight yard by railroad detectives while hobo-
ing to Tuskegee Institute.2 But as significant to Ellison as Wright’s
ideas was the older writer’s almost religious devotion to the craft of
writing...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 233–241.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of a planetary form of ecological practice lingering at the
margins of the urbane texts of black modernism. McKay, who as a
young man earned his living as a field hand and briefly pursued an edu-
cation at Booker T. Washington’s famed Tuskegee Institute, appears
in Posmentier’s careful reading...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., Alabama, and then, six months later,
as if following in the footsteps of American freedmen, to Kansas and
later New York. The poet’s brief education in agronomy in the halls
of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute remains something
of a mystery, even to McKay scholars and biographers...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... Press . ———. 2005 . State of Exception . Translated by Attell Kevin . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . “ Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study .” 2007 . Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library , University of Virginia . exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and Reverend Brown’s migration from Jamaica to the delta, this essay interrogates the intersections of labor, literacy, and diaspora on the corporate plantation in the global black south. As an institution that at once extended and refined the racial and managerial logics of the antebellum plantation...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 141–168.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to Robert Park’s soci-
ology in the 1920s, Dorothy Ross has shown that this change was ini-
tiated by Franz Boas in anthropology, and later taken up by William
Thomas and, through him, eventually Park (OASS, 350–59).8
Thomas met Park at a conference at the Tuskegee Institute in 1912,
where Park had...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
... a longstanding force in Ellison’s life. As a classically trained trumpeter, Ellison had desired to become a symphonist like Beethoven and William Levi Dawson, Ellison’s professor at the Tuskegee Institute and composer of the acclaimed Negro Folk Symphony (1934). When his “desire to write music” was “darn near...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Beringer, 455–88.
Turner, Nat. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and
the Terror of Things,” by Christina Zwarg, 23–50.
Tuskegee Institute. “Head and Hands Together: Booker T. Washington’s Voca-
tional Realism,” by Laura R. Fisher, 709–37.
Unvanquished, The. “Pregnant...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 7–32.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the prevailing conservatism of the
time and pointed to the need for better African American access to
American Literature, Volume 77, Number 1, March 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke
University Press.
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theatrical institutions.3 Baraka’s dismissive reading obscures Fuller’s
assertive...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
Published: 01 December 2009
... arrived in New York during
the summer of 1936, he focused on two passions: music and sculpture.
He hoped to supplement his studies in music at the Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute with connections to musicians and composers,
and at the same time to pursue his interest in visual art...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and reconciliation.
This was perhaps made clearest in the censorship of Robert Moton’s
speech for the occasion. Moton, the successor to Booker T. Washing-
ton as principal of the Tuskegee Institute, initially submitted a speech
to the event committee that was strikingly radical. Recalling Freder-
ick...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2024
....” 6 When the novel was published, racist medical abuse—while well-known within Black communities—had not been publicly acknowledged by the American majority. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932–72)—the first unethical experiment conducted on Black people that American medicine condemned—was not exposed...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
project called “lesbian and gay history” and the more deconstructive project
called “queer theory” will be a familiar one. Approximately twenty years into
the institutional study of queer topics, historians and theorists are conversant
with one another (as the footnotes attest), even...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
....
For those who work in queer studies, the tension between the more positivist
project called “lesbian and gay history” and the more deconstructive project
called “queer theory” will be a familiar one. Approximately twenty years into
the institutional study of queer topics, historians and theorists...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... Approximately twenty years into
the institutional study of queer topics, historians and theorists are conversant
with one another (as the footnotes attest), even as their scholarship, when
compared, appears deadlocked in a game of “agree to disagree.” While the
four books under review all concern...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
....
For those who work in queer studies, the tension between the more positivist
project called “lesbian and gay history” and the more deconstructive project
called “queer theory” will be a familiar one. Approximately twenty years into
the institutional study of queer topics, historians and theorists...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
...” will be a familiar one. Approximately twenty years into
the institutional study of queer topics, historians and theorists are conversant
with one another (as the footnotes attest), even as their scholarship, when
compared, appears deadlocked in a game of “agree to disagree.” While the
four books under review...
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