African American Literature Discussion Group

Book discussion blog for the Evanston Public Library featuring books by or about African Americans, book reviews, author biographies, reader's advisory, and book discussion guides.

Friday, April 14, 2017

Underground Railroad: Concretizing a metaphor

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Our book for next week is Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad . Whitehead was recently in Evanston, speaking for the Family Act...

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Monday, March 20, 2017

Twin Traumas: War and Slavery

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The Civil War era, with its 750,000 dead saw a heightened interest in spiritualism and mysticism. In 1861, a spiritualist newspaper appeare...

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Sunday, February 19, 2017

"Playing the Race Card" in Detroit?

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This Tuesday, 7:00 pm at the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center, we'll be discussing Detroit: an Autopsy , journalist Charlie LeDuff...

Monday, January 9, 2017

Revisiting Roads Not Taken

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Greetings and Happy New Year! I skipped posting about our November discussion, Grant Park ; but if you haven't read it yet I urge ...

Monday, October 24, 2016

How "United" Are We?

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This is a bittersweet time to be reading Senator Cory Booker's somewhat triumphalist memoir, United , when the US seems more fragmented ...

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

An Interview with Natalie Moore

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Natalie Moore graciously afforded me a brief phone interview to discuss her book The South Side , which we'll be discussing on Tues...

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Friday, August 26, 2016

Natalie Moore talks The South Side

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Greetings! My apologies for the long hiatus between postings; but I was out of the country for several weeks, visiting the West Bank in Pa...

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