Contemporary cultural debates demand a close reading of Ellison's essays and Malcolm's oratory. For both within and without the academy issues of nationalism, identity, and "multiculturalism" are at the fore of discussion. ...

Even in deat h, Frank Hague left a lasting imprint on his city. Today people vividly remember the Boss either from fear or loyalty. The mention of his name excites almost the same emotions it did twenty years ago. The ...

Ever since the emergence of dialect speech into popular culture following the conclusion of the Civil War, black writers of vernacular in America have had to manage complicated relationships with both their white editors ...

Lord Acton in his essay "The Heralds of the Revolution" declared that it was the combination of the American example with the influence of the French enlightenment that caused the French Revolution. Granting that generalizations ...

Building upon the work of Bettina Bergmann, who shows the critical importance of memory in the creation and reception of Roman domestic painting, I will explore the complexity and multivalence of Roman collective social ...

Stravinsky's works are typically categorized into three main periods of composition: Russian, Neo-Classical, and Serial. The most noteworthy works of his Russian phase, roughly 1902-1920, include the ballets made famous ...

Being a black woman is hard. I often hear my black male friends say that it is harder to be a black male in American than it is to be a black female, but I think for them they still have that male factor. And for us we ...