Thursday, January 7, 2016

Sample of entries related to Houston Baker's "Generational Shifts"


Houston Baker's Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature (1984) and Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers (2008)

Over the years,I have produced several lists that highlight intra-racial changes and continuities among African American artists and scholars. In many respects, my work corresponds to and in some ways emerges from scholarly work that Houston A. Baker did concerning "generational shifts" in African American literary studies.

My own online projects here diverge from Baker's work, but as I was recently thinking on his "generational shifts" as part of a look at his work at the Modern Language Association conference, I wanted to pull together a list of my blog entries along those lines. By the way, in addition to Baker's "generational work," the observations that Malcolm Gladwell would make, decades later, concerning birth years and accumulative advantage also contributed to my thinking on the subjects. 

Entries:

2015
• December 22: A list of award-winning African American poets, 1975 - 2015  
• December 18: A checklist of poems featuring ex-slaves 
• November 9: Black Female Figures & Poetry Book Covers 
• October 17: Books on Hip Hop
• July 8: Black Poetry: A Timeline, 1854 - 2015
• May 22: Black Poetry Debates: tracking histories of tension, vs., and questions
• January 17: Elizabeth Alexander as a crucial connector
• January 3: African American recipients of poetry prizes, awards (1987-2015) 
• January 1: African American recipients of poetry prizes, awards & fellowships 

2014
• December 5: Maya Angelou, Kelly Norman Ellis, poetry & collegiate black women
• November 28: A roundup of #BlackPoetsSpeakOut Selections
• March 2: 15 poems & 15 volumes of poetry about black men 

2013
• May 25: Black men in the arts, humanities & politics born between 1948 - 1969
• March 25: An Afrofuturism-based timeline, 1998 - 2013
• February 17: Accomplished black men in the arts born between 1965 - 1975

2012
• December 20: Poets by Birth Year
• September 28: Jazz musicians born during the 1920s & 1930s 
• August 11: The significance of African American poets being born during the late 1960s & early 1970s
• June 30: Active African American Poets over 65
• June 12: How Young (or Old) were 'Young' Black Artists in 1926? 

2011
• December 16: How Age Matters in the 'Rap as Poetry' Debate
• September 12: Older Generations of Writers & 'New' Black Poetry 
• July 29: Black Women Writers Born between 1928-1939
• May 19: The Golden (Birth) Years of Rappers 
• April 11: Manning Marable, the 1950s & Black Public Intellectuals 
• March 22: Why the Birth Years of Black Poets Matter

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