Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African Americans. Show all posts
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
In search of Nella Larsen
Hutchinson, George. (2006). In search of Nella Larsen: a biography of the color line. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Saw an advert for this book, and was fascinated enough to pick it off the shelf. Whilst I am already reading other books, I could not resist the urge to look at this one. Thus far, the Introduction, my judgment has been confirmed.
One item of particular interest: Larsen was a librarian.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Nella Larsen
Came across her name in reading biography of Federico García Lorca; when he was in New York, in 1929-30, he met Larsen.
In 1919, Larsen married Elmer Samuel Imes, a prominent physicist, the second African American to receive a Ph.D in physics. They moved to Harlem, where Larsen took a job at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL). In the year after her marriage, she began to write and published her first pieces in 1920.
Well, I don't find an NYPL branch on 135th Street. There is the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which seems to be on 135th; and the Countee Cullen Library, which is at 104 West 136th Street (near Lenox Ave).
Certified in 1923 by the NYPL's library school, she transferred to a children's librarian's position in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In 1926, having made friends with important figures in the Negro Awakening that became the Harlem Renaissance, Larsen gave up her work as a librarian and began to work as a writer active in the literary community. In 1928, she published Quicksand (ISBN 0-14-118127-3), a largely autobiographical novel, which received significant critical acclaim, if not great financial success.
In 1919, Larsen married Elmer Samuel Imes, a prominent physicist, the second African American to receive a Ph.D in physics. They moved to Harlem, where Larsen took a job at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL). In the year after her marriage, she began to write and published her first pieces in 1920.
Well, I don't find an NYPL branch on 135th Street. There is the Arthur Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, which seems to be on 135th; and the Countee Cullen Library, which is at 104 West 136th Street (near Lenox Ave).
Certified in 1923 by the NYPL's library school, she transferred to a children's librarian's position in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In 1926, having made friends with important figures in the Negro Awakening that became the Harlem Renaissance, Larsen gave up her work as a librarian and began to work as a writer active in the literary community. In 1928, she published Quicksand (ISBN 0-14-118127-3), a largely autobiographical novel, which received significant critical acclaim, if not great financial success.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Mahmood Mamdani
A patron who calls regularly on Saturdays asked for books by Mahmood Mamdani.
When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda (2001)
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror (2004)
Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on terror (2008)
Mahmood Mamdani (b. 1947 in Kampala, Uganda) is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States. He is also the Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies. He is a former President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.
When victims become killers : colonialism, nativism, and the genocide in Rwanda (2001)
Good Muslim, bad Muslim : America, the Cold War, and the roots of terror (2004)
Saviors and survivors : Darfur, politics, and the War on terror (2008)
Mahmood Mamdani (b. 1947 in Kampala, Uganda) is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and Political Science at Columbia University in the United States. He is also the Director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies. He is a former President of the Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Dakar, Senegal.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
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