9/16/20

1

100 Years of Black Literature

Black Pride in Elementary School

9/16/20

2

Black History

Actor Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther, Jackie Robinson, James

Brown , Thurgood Marshall

9/16/20

3

Literary Icons: Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker,

Maya Angelou

Classics

9/16/20

4

3 Generations of Black Lit: James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi

Coates

“Say Their Names” 6/22/20

9/16/20

5

Ta-Nehisi Coates Edits “The Great Fire” Vanity Fair 9/20/20 Special

Ta-Nehisi Coates

9/16/20

6

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Essays, Comic Books, Fiction

Lincoln Meets Frederick Douglass

9/16/20

7

Marcus Garvey/ Booker T. Washington

The Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B.DuBois(John Edgar Wideman Intro.)

9/16/20

8

The Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance Writers

9/16/20

9

The Jazz Age

Langston Hughes: “I, Too”

9/16/20

10

Richard Wright: “Native Son”

James Baldwin

9/16/20

11

James Baldwin Great Books

Lorraine Hansberry Playwright

9/16/20

12

Gwendolyn Brooks Poet

Gwendolyn Brooks: “We Real Cool”

9/16/20

13

Gyendolyn Brooks

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man

9/16/20

14

Bellow and Ellison: A Great Friendship

Post-War Jazz

9/16/20

15

Claude Brown: “Manchild in the Promised Land”

Freedom Riders: 1962

9/16/20

16

MLK and Mississippi Murders 1964

Malcolm X

9/16/20

17

The Black Panthers and Angela Davis

Angela Davis: Activist and Academic

9/16/20

18

Toni Morrison: Nobel Laureate

Toni Morrison: “The Future of African American Literature”

9/16/20

19

Toni Morrison Edits The Black Book

Alice Walker

9/16/20

20

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

The Black Arts Movement

9/16/20

21

Black Arts: Alice Walker (Poet, Novelist, and Radical Critic)

Maya Angelou: Poet and Autobiography

9/16/20

22

“Still I Rise” : Maya Angelou

August Wilson: Playwright{

9/16/20

23

Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle An American Century

August Wilson

9/16/20

24

Alex Haley Popular Novelist

Rita Dove: Poet Laureate

9/16/20

25

Walter Mosley Mystery Writer

An Easy Rawlins Mystery

9/16/20

26

Ishmael Reed: Poet and Novelist

Jazz Art

9/16/20

27

Ishmael Reed (Playwright and Critic)

Jamaica Kincaid: Poet and Critic

9/16/20

28

Girl (Poem)

Jamaica Kincaid: “The Disturbances of the Garden”(New Yorker 9/7/20)

9/16/20

29

USF Black Lit Bookshelf

Jesmyn Ward

9/16/20

30

Edwidge Danticat

Raven Leilani

9/16/20

31

Tiffany Yanique

Yaa Gyasi (5 under 35)

9/16/20

32

Bryan Washington

David Wright Falade:

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33

Rion Amilcar Scott

Colson Whitehead

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34

Colson Whitehead

Time Magazine:“America’s Storyteller”

9/16/20

35

Darryl Pinckney and Zadie Smith: Novelists and Public Intelletuals

Darryl Pinckney: High Cotton

9/16/20

36

Darryl Pinckney “We Must Act Out Our Freedom”

(NY Review of Books 8/20/20)

Zadie, Ta-Nehisi, Jesmyn

9/16/20

37

Zadie Smith Stories: “Escape from New York”/ “Crazy, They Call Me”

Edward P. Jones

9/16/20

38

Edward P. Jones: Storyteller

Bell Hooks Poet

9/16/20

39

Bell Hooks: Feminist Critic

Black Lives Matter

9/16/20

40

Cultural Appropriation?

Black Feminists

9/16/20

41

Empowering Women’s Lit

Tayari Jones

9/16/20

42

“An American Marriage”

John Edgar Wideman: Storyteller, Memoirist, Essayist

9/16/20

43

James Emanuel Long Life of a Poet and Scholar

James Emanuel Jazz Haikus

9/16/20

44

Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and The Origins of Our Discontents

(2020)

Leon Litwack: Jim Crow South

9/16/20

45

Cornell West: Philosopher, Social Critic (with Toni Morrison)

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornell West

9/16/20

46

Norton Anthology of African American Literature: Ed. Henry Louis Gates

PBS: “The African Americans” Essential Documentary

9/16/20

47

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Literary Critic, Filmmaker, Scholar

Skip Gates & Carmello Anthony “Finding Your Roots”

9/16/20

48

James McBride, Spike Lee, CarmelloAnthony:Red Hook Summer (Brooklyn)

James McBride: Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Musician

9/16/20

49

James McBride on James Brown

James McBride: “Good Lord Bird” Jazz Ensemble

9/16/20

50

John Coltraine—Giant Steps

James McBride “The Color of Water”(Biography of His Jewish Mother)

9/16/20

51

“Deacon King Kong”(Fromm Showcase Novel)

Cultural Appropriation?

9/16/20

52

William Styron “The Confessions of Nat Turner”

William Faulkner’s Black Heroine (Dilsey)

9/16/20

53

William Faulkner on “Truth”

Bob Dylan “Only a Pawn in the Game” Mississippi, 1963 (Medgar Evers)

9/16/20

54

Bob Dylan and The Obamas

“A More Perfect Union” Barack Obama: Race in America

9/16/20

55

Philip Roth and The Plot (David Simon Adaptation Anticipates 2020 Dystopia)

Paul Theroux: Black and White

9/16/20

56

E.L. Doctorow: The Progressive Voice of American Historical Fiction

E.L.Doctorow Imagines Coalhouse Walker Jr.—History Repeats Itself

9/16/20

57

Lin Manuel Miranda: Hamilton

Richie Havens: From the Beats to Folk Music to Woodstock and Beyond

9/16/20

58

Legacy: Richie Havens

The University of Chicago “Back in the Day” (1965-1970)

9/16/20

59

John Hope Franklin: Historian

Albert Murray (1916-2013)

9/16/20

60

Chicago Blues

Paul Butterfield in Hyde Park, Chicago (1966)

9/16/20

61

Muddy, Buddy, and the Stones: Southside Chicago Blues

Buddy Guy: The Last of the Bluesmen