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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Carreiro, Amy Elizabeth. "African American Writers and the Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1970," History Department, Oklahoma State University, May 1997.
This work argues that the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance was the developing independence of black writers and intellectuals from the domination of white social reformers. This study included the use of personal correspondence, literature, poetry, interviews, and published and unpublished commentaries. The dissertation utilizes African-American literature to reassess past and present historiographical interpretations of black intellectuals, the Harlem Renaissance, and black membership in the American Communist Party. Much of the research concentrates on Langston Hughes’s The Ways of White Folks, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and their relationships and perceptions of Negrotarians.
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