Beyond NOLA: Exploring Zora Neale Hurston in Bogalusa, Louisiana’s Magic City
by Sondra Bickham Washington
"Beyond NOLA is an intricate digital humanities project that centers the city of Bogalusa, Louisiana as a significant site for Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographic fieldwork and writing..."
Decoding Cultural Literacy: Rhetorically Analyzing Everyday Media for Professional Writers
by Kandice Rainn Fowlkes
"Decoding Cultural Literacy: Rhetorically Analyzing Everyday Media for Professional Writers by Kandice Rainn Fowlkes offers a straight-forward and well-structured guide for interpreting cultural artifacts and building a thoughtful and well-articulated rhetorical analysis..."
Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: The Social Networks of Rejected Applicants
by Hai In Jo
"The digital project Enrolling as Cherokee Freedmen: The Social Networks of Rejected Applicants represents an important addition to a growing body of research on Black Native experiences of enslavement, community-building, and land-based relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries..."
The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays
by LaTanya Reese-Rogers and Tanya Walker
"The Motherhood Aesthetic in Contemporary Black American Plays is a testimonial to the diverse ways that Black mothers love, nurture, and protect their children and themselves within a myriad of realities that force them to conform and contort in order to, as W.E.B. Du Bois explains in the Souls of Black Folk (1903), 'keep themselves from being torn asunder.'..."
Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era
by Lavonda Kay Broadnax
"Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era, curated by Lavonda Kay Broadnax, is a welcome and important addition to a growing constellation of projects focusing on Black women authors, Black women’s intellectual history, and Black women’s writing during the Civil War Era..."
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