Most Recent Articles from African American Review

• Forgotten Manuscripts: William Jay Greenly's Antebellum Temperance Drama 

  The October 1858 Repository of Religion and Literature proudly announced that Another book is out, and that by a colored man--by an old friend, a...

  09/22/08 by Eric (American educator) Gardner · More from publication

• Imagining Other Worlds: Race, Gender, and the "Power Line" in Edward P. Jones's "The Known World" 

  Moses was the first slave Henry Townsend had bought: $325 and a handshake from William Robbins, a white man. It took Moses more than two weeks to...

  09/22/08 by Katherine Clay Bassard · More from publication

• The Specter of Conspiracy in Martin Delany's "Blake" 

  With his serialized novel Blake (1859-62), Martin Robison Delany carried the message of militant revolution into a discourse dominated by the often...

  09/22/08 by Rebecca Skidmore Biggio · More from publication

• Forgotten Manuscripts: "Blues for Emmett Till": The Earliest Extant Song About the Murder of Emmett Till 

  The brutal murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi on August 28, 1955 and the heinous acquittal of his killers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, on...

  09/22/08 by Philip Charles Kolin · More from publication

• Black Anxiety about Immigration and Jessie Fauset's "The Sleeper Wakes" 

  The cover story of the July/August 2006 issue of The Crisis is "Immigration: Should African Americans Be Worried? 5 Black Leaders Weigh In." The...

  09/22/08 by Elizabeth Ammons · More from publication

• Not Only War is Hell: World War I and African American Lynching Narratives 

  When Wilbur Little, an African American soldier, returned to Blakely, Georgia from service in World War I, a group of white men met him at the...

  09/22/08 by David A. Davis · More from publication

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