Category Archives: Black Writers

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Embracing and Fearing the Void: The Root of Racism

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Richard Guzman

James Baldwin once called America a nation “dedicated to the death of the paradox,” a people particularly fond of the straight-forward answer: the Yes-No, the Black-White, the Just-The-Facts, Ma’am, reply.  Which could make reading Baldwin particularly difficult.  As Raoul Peck, … Continue reading →

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Ida B. Wells Boycotts the World’s Fair – Part 2

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Richard Guzman

[ Read Part 1 of this post. ] Chicago eventually became Ida B. Well’s home base.  What drew her here, away from her significant writing and crusading in Memphis, was controversy over the “White City” of the 1893 World’s Fair.  Blacks were … Continue reading →

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Ida B. Wells Boycotts the World’s Fair – Part 1

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Richard Guzman

One of the most important documents of Black writing in American history is Ida B. Well’s pamphlet The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition, sections of which I included in my book Black Writing from … Continue reading →

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