Presentations

1: Forgetting the Blues: Selective Memory and Race Identity in The New Negro

Dean Casale, Kean U

2: Black Writing: The Negro Artist in Passing

Wenwen Guo, Emory U

3: Celebrating a Sacred, Inner Thing: The Singing Strong Black Women of Langston Hughes’s Verse

Rachel Heffner-Burns, Lehigh U

4: Stylin’ and Signifyin’ in Hughes’s Little Ham

John Wharton Lowe, U of Georgia

Presider

Tara Green, U of North Carolina, Greensboro