- Collection:
- College Language Association Collection
- Title:
- John Matheus Lecture, March 2, 1976
- Date of Original:
- 1976-04-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--Education
Lectures and lecturing
African American scholars - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- lectures
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- John Matheus gives a lecture for a class on Afro-American studies at Indiana University. His discussion largely concerns Black American writers and their contribution to Western culture. The lecture spans two tapes with the first including such topics as the French writers (00:08:37), the concept of "blackness" (00:11:04),Tragic Mulatto trope (00:41:10), colorism (00:45:52), his time in Paris, France (00:49:35), Marcus Garvey (00:55:24), his play Cruiter (01:01:28). In the second tape Matheus answers questions pertaining to about experiences in Florida, time in college at West Missouri (00:03:50), his poetry (00:08:28), colonialism (00:16:50),
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.032:0014
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- College Language Association Collection||http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:032
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
