Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.
African American Literature Book Club

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

DOS earliest literature

  • Open Club
  • 4 members
  • Rules
Save

Work List

A club blog for DOS earliest literature

  • Entries

    36

  • Comments

    9

  • Views

    13,069

About this blog

Blog entries are the earliest literary works of those descended of enslaved

Entries in this blog

E literature entry

Weekly  Anglo-African and  The Pine and Palm - Excerpts from 1861–1862+Blake; or The Huts of America: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba from Martin Delany,

Weekly  Anglo-African and  The Pine and Palm  Excerpts from 1861–1862 ARTICLE   Content Weekly Anglo-African and The Pine and Palm (1861-1862) Spring 2018 – No. 4 Edited and introduced by Brigitte Fielder, Cassander Smith, and Derrick R. Spires Introduction Resolved, That we firmly, flatly, uncompromisingly oppose, condemn and denounce as unfair and unjust, as unwise and as unchristian, the fleeing, colonizing efforts urged by James Redpath, the white, seconded by George L
E literature entry

My Search For SHUFFLE ALONG

I was unable to find the stageplay book. I imagine someone has it somewhere. But if I ever get it I will share it in this work. This isn't the first african american stageplay, my book of old stageplays have many that are older and that were popular. But Shuffle Along did have a sensation especially among whites that is underrated.  Well, enjoy the images.      Shuffle Along (1921) Posted onMarch 16, 2008by contributed by: Anthony Duane Hill Shuffle Along, a musi
E literature entry

PERCY JULIAN

The lesson in Percy Julian's story isn't that in the usa whites stop blacks from all things but in the usa whites defer blacks from their true goals. Yes, PErcy Julian became a chemist but by his own words this was a life as a chemist he didn't envision. It was a poisoned deal between getting something remotely similar to what you want because of white power while still holding on and embracing the usa NARRATOR: Looking back in the autobiography he would never finish, Julian offered his own
E literature entry

2024 Black Literature at Medger Evers National Black Writers Conference

National Black Writers Conference Daily 2024 Write up  Day 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66190 Day 2 part 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66193 Day 2 part 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10856-national-black-writers-conference-best-line-up-ever/?do=findComment&comment=66212 Day 3 https://aa
E literature entry

A Night with Dr. Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes

Video TRANSCRIPT - my thoughts in the comments 0:28 all right good evening my name is Dr Jason ockerman 0:34 I'm a faculty member at the uh in the IUPUI School of liberal arts 0:40 and I'm the director of the Ray Bradbury Center what is the Ray Bradbury Center it is a 0:47 one of the larger single author archives in the United States it's also a small Museum we have 0:53 recreated Ray Bradbury's basement office with entirely original artifacts and we do offer
E literature entry

Earliest AfricanFuturism

Afrofuturism in my view can be renamed Negro Science Fantasy Fiction but the definition to either word or term is the same, in my view, works from black  , phenotypical range, authors throughout humanity regardless of geographic ancestry that involve elements  of science fiction or fantasy, with usually, not always, a majority of black characters.  Now I placed a collection of Africanfuturism, the term potentially first coined by Nnedi Okorafor < https://twitter.com/Nnedi , I have not ch

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications
Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.