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Visual Arts
Adrienne Childs
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Visual ArtsIntroductionThe study of African American art, or art by African Americans, is a field of inquiry that has grown over the course of the 20t...
Wells, Ida B.
James Edward Ford
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Ida B. WellsIntroductionIda B. Wells-Barnett (b. 16 July 1862–d. 25 March 1931) is most well known for her anti-lynching activism. Wells-Barnett’s her...
Wheatley, Phillis
Vincent Carretta
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Phillis WheatleyIntroductionThe person now best known as Phillis Wheatley was born around 1753 in West Africa, most likely south of the Senegambia are...
Whitehead, Colson
Derek C. Maus
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Colson WhiteheadIntroductionOver the course of a career now in its third decade, Colson Whitehead has produced a nine-book oeuvre that has made him on...
Whiteness
Melissa Stein
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
WhitenessIntroductionWhiteness as a conceptual framework—and whiteness studies, the interdisciplinary field it precipitated—largely developed from two...
Woodrow Wilson, Administration of
Eric S. Yellin
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Administration of Woodrow WilsonIntroductionThe presidency of Woodrow Wilson deepened the struggle of African Americans in the age of Jim Crow. The ri...
World War II
Maggi M. Morehouse
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
World War IIIntroductionThe war years were transformative for people of African descent, particularly in the United States. About 10 percent of the po...
Wright, Richard
Yoshinobu Hakutani
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Richard WrightIntroductionRichard Wright (b. 1908–d. 1960) is regarded today as one of the most important African American writers. Not only was his l...
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