- Collection:
- C. Eric Lincoln Lecture Series Collection
- Title:
- 6th C. Eric Lincoln Lecture Series, 1988
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Subject:
- African American scholars
African Americans--Education
Lectures and lecturing
Speeches, addresses, etc. - 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:
- Dr. Billie Gaines gives a lecture on Russian Alexander Pushkin. She discusses Pushkin’s ambivalence being an African descendent and Russian. Dr. Gaines also describes the gun dual that leads to Pushkin’s death and the distinguishing qualities of Black art and how these qualities are apparent in Pushkin’s work. She also discusses Alexander Pushkin as a symbol of America’s future mixed race population. Cut to a history of the blues from a prison in Mississippi. Unidentified men speak about and sing the blues.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.093:0406
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- C. Eric Lincoln Lecture Series Collection||http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:093
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
