Farah Jasmine Griffin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 208776 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Farah Jasmine Griffin |
| NOMBRES | Farah Jasmine |
| APELLIDO | Griffin |
| FIRMA | GRIFFIN F J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Black Studies in the University
A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today’s students and scholars In a landmark 1968 conference at Yale University, students, faculty, and community activists helped establish “Afro‐American Studies” as a major, and then a thriving department, at Yale. In these conference proceedings, participants argue for the necessity of Black Studies as a field, start to delineate its central debates, discuss its relationship to the …
Precious Links in a Chain”
Following Geri's Lead
Drawn from a keynote delivered for Timeless Portraits and Dreams: A Festival in Honor of Geri Allen (Harvard University, February 16–17, 2018), this personal essay shares observations about Allen's intellectual and artistic leadership in diverse roles including bandleader, teacher, curator, and artistic visionary. In addition to discussions of Allen's music and recordings, this essay also focuses on her collaboration with the author and actor/dir…
Are You as Colored as That Negro
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Baraka's Billie Holiday as a Blues Poet of Black Longing
1055 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 1055-1062© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1055 1056 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1056 FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN 1057 Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1057 1058 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1058 FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN 1059 Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page …
Pearl Primus and the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
This essay explores the extent to which the concept of black radical illuminates or limits understandings of the art and activism of dancer, choreographer, and activist Pearl Primus. Focusing on Primus’s emergence as a public figure and artist during the 1940s, the essay examines her involvement in leftist politics. During this period, Primus sought to navigate her leftist commitments with her own seemingly nationalist impulses. This is most evid…
Can Anything Beat White?
Ann Petry (1908–1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry’s ancestors, the James family, served as inspiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more t…
Monument Eternal
Book Review| July 01 2012 Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane. By Franya Berkman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8195-6925-7. Softcover. Pp. 160. $27.95. Farah Griffin Farah Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (2): 258–260. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.30.2.0258 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
At Last
In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age: First Lady Michelle Obama and entertainment mogul Beyonce Knowles. Both women signify change in race relations in America, yet both reveal that the history of racial inequality in this country is far from over. As an Ivy League-educated descendent of slaves, Michelle Obama is not just unfamiliar to the mainstream media and the Washington political scene; during th…
Children of Omar
The history of black people in the United States is an epic saga of dislocation, dispersal, and dispossession. Consequently the instability, insecurity, and disruption that accompany displacement have been a persistent part of the black experience in the United States. The post-Katrina crisis confronted by black New Orleanians was yet another chapter in this ongoing saga. This article seeks to explore the ways in which the culture and music of Ne…
That the Mothers May Soar and the Daughters May Know Their Names
Uptown Conversation
When Malindy Sings
1. Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939. 2. Whitney Houston singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl in 1992 during the Gulf War. 3. Aretha Franklin singing “The Star Spangled Banner” at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. 4. Santita Jackson singing “The Star Spangled Banner” at inaugural events for William Jefferson Clinton, January 20, 1997. 5. The anonymous black woman who sang at the first public memorial f…
Thirty Years of Black American Literature and Literary Studies
The past 30 years have witnessed an explosion of literary production by people of African descent. Although Black writers have been publishing their work for centuries, this has been an era of institutionalizing and diversifying literature, identifying and creating a market for it, and formalizing its study. This article explores a number of major trends that have influenced the production, distribution, and reception of African American literatu…
Para Las Chicas Cubanas
The New York to which I returned in mid-May of 2001 was gray, cloudy and sweater-weather cool. This only exacerbated my emotional state as I had fallen deeply, desperately in love with Cuba and longed to return. It's not the first time I've fallen in love with a place. I fell for South Africa in 1997 and I've always considered New York City one of the great loves of my life. But this was different. This was no idealistic, romanticized love. It wa…
Eight Lessons from the Black Front
Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends
Spiritual Interrogations
Book Review| March 01 2000 Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing By Katherine Clay Bassard. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. 183 pp.$42.50. Farah Jasmine Griffin Farah Jasmine Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 183–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar
(2000). Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar. The Black Scholar: Vol. 30, Transcending Traditions, pp. 2-3
Black Feminists and Du Bois
Throughout his life, W.E.B. Du Bois was an advocate for black women. However, in his article of 1898, "The Study of the Negro Problems," he posits a model of the intellectuals, the investigators who analyze Negro problems, as male. In other writings, the most important being "The Damnation of Women," Du Bois focuses his attention on black women as mothers, workers, and activists but not as intellectuals. This is why contemporary black feminist in…
Canaan Bound
Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historica…
An Interview with Farah Jasmine Griffin
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1999
Call to Home
Carol Stack Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the South. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 226 pp. (Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1996
Who Set You Flowin
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Black Feminists and Du Bois
Throughout his life, W.E.B. Du Bois was an advocate for black women. However, in his article of 1898, "The Study of the Negro Problems," he posits a model of the intellectuals, the investigators who analyze Negro problems, as male. In other writings, the most important being "The Damnation of Women," Du Bois focuses his attention on black women as mothers, workers, and activists but not as intellectuals. This is why contemporary black feminist in…
Black Studies in the University
A founding document of African American Studies, reissued for today’s students and scholars In a landmark 1968 conference at Yale University, students, faculty, and community activists helped establish “Afro‐American Studies” as a major, and then a thriving department, at Yale. In these conference proceedings, participants argue for the necessity of Black Studies as a field, start to delineate its central debates, discuss its relationship to the …
At Last
In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age: First Lady Michelle Obama and entertainment mogul Beyonce Knowles. Both women signify change in race relations in America, yet both reveal that the history of racial inequality in this country is far from over. As an Ivy League-educated descendent of slaves, Michelle Obama is not just unfamiliar to the mainstream media and the Washington political scene; during th…
Textual Healing
Textual HealingClaiming Black Women's Bodies, the Erotic and Resistance in Contemporary Novels of Slavery Farah Jasmine Griffin (bio) On the next day, which was the 8th of the month of August, very early in the morning, by reason of the heat, the seamen began to make ready their boats, and to take out those captives, and carry them on the shore as they were commanded. And these, placed all together in that field, were a marvellous sight, for amon…
That the Mothers May Soar and the Daughters May Know Their Names
Pearl Primus and the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
This essay explores the extent to which the concept of black radical illuminates or limits understandings of the art and activism of dancer, choreographer, and activist Pearl Primus. Focusing on Primus’s emergence as a public figure and artist during the 1940s, the essay examines her involvement in leftist politics. During this period, Primus sought to navigate her leftist commitments with her own seemingly nationalist impulses. This is most evid…
Baraka's Billie Holiday as a Blues Poet of Black Longing
1055 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 1055-1062© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1055 1056 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1056 FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN 1057 Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1057 1058 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page 1058 FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN 1059 Griffin_Griffin 2/14/2018 5:46 PM Page …
Children of Omar
The history of black people in the United States is an epic saga of dislocation, dispersal, and dispossession. Consequently the instability, insecurity, and disruption that accompany displacement have been a persistent part of the black experience in the United States. The post-Katrina crisis confronted by black New Orleanians was yet another chapter in this ongoing saga. This article seeks to explore the ways in which the culture and music of Ne…
Para Las Chicas Cubanas
The New York to which I returned in mid-May of 2001 was gray, cloudy and sweater-weather cool. This only exacerbated my emotional state as I had fallen deeply, desperately in love with Cuba and longed to return. It's not the first time I've fallen in love with a place. I fell for South Africa in 1997 and I've always considered New York City one of the great loves of my life. But this was different. This was no idealistic, romanticized love. It wa…
Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar
(2000). Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar. The Black Scholar: Vol. 30, Transcending Traditions, pp. 2-3
An Interview with Farah Jasmine Griffin
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1999
Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade BambaraFree to be Anywhere in the Universe Farah Jasmine Griffin (bio) You can hear their voices long after you turn the final page. Toni Cade Bambara’s extraordinary ordinary people—streetwise, sensitive and complex—taunt, tease, and haunt: Don’t you want to be free? Yes, You. Freedom. What are you going to do to be free? In this way, they are not unlike their creator. When she passed on December 9, 1995, Toni Cade Bambara left us a le…
Who Set You Flowin
This book is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music, and painting. It identifies the “migration narrative” as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, the book provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry, and painting; in so doing it carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American …
Who Set You Flowin
History & Memory in African-American Culture
Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade BambaraFree to be Anywhere in the Universe Farah Jasmine Griffin (bio) You can hear their voices long after you turn the final page. Toni Cade Bambara’s extraordinary ordinary people—streetwise, sensitive and complex—taunt, tease, and haunt: Don’t you want to be free? Yes, You. Freedom. What are you going to do to be free? In this way, they are not unlike their creator. When she passed on December 9, 1995, Toni Cade Bambara left us a le…
Textual Healing
Textual HealingClaiming Black Women's Bodies, the Erotic and Resistance in Contemporary Novels of Slavery Farah Jasmine Griffin (bio) On the next day, which was the 8th of the month of August, very early in the morning, by reason of the heat, the seamen began to make ready their boats, and to take out those captives, and carry them on the shore as they were commanded. And these, placed all together in that field, were a marvellous sight, for amon…
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Call to Home
Carol Stack Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the South. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 226 pp. (Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 1996
Who Set You Flowin
An Interview with Farah Jasmine Griffin
Callaloo - Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 1999
Spiritual Interrogations
Book Review| March 01 2000 Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing By Katherine Clay Bassard. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. 183 pp.$42.50. Farah Jasmine Griffin Farah Jasmine Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 183–185. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Link…
Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar
(2000). Introduction to “Transcending Traditions” Special Issue of The Black Scholar. The Black Scholar: Vol. 30, Transcending Traditions, pp. 2-3
Black Feminists and Du Bois
Throughout his life, W.E.B. Du Bois was an advocate for black women. However, in his article of 1898, "The Study of the Negro Problems," he posits a model of the intellectuals, the investigators who analyze Negro problems, as male. In other writings, the most important being "The Damnation of Women," Du Bois focuses his attention on black women as mothers, workers, and activists but not as intellectuals. This is why contemporary black feminist in…
Canaan Bound
Drawing on a wide range of major literary voices, including Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, as well as lesser-known writers such as William Attaway (Blood on the Forge) and Dorothy West (The Living Is Easy), Rodgers conducts a kind of literary archaeology of the Great Migration. He mines the writers' biographical connections to migration and teases apart the ways in which individual novels relate to one another, to the historica…
Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends
Eight Lessons from the Black Front
Para Las Chicas Cubanas
The New York to which I returned in mid-May of 2001 was gray, cloudy and sweater-weather cool. This only exacerbated my emotional state as I had fallen deeply, desperately in love with Cuba and longed to return. It's not the first time I've fallen in love with a place. I fell for South Africa in 1997 and I've always considered New York City one of the great loves of my life. But this was different. This was no idealistic, romanticized love. It wa…
Uptown Conversation
When Malindy Sings
1. Marian Anderson singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939. 2. Whitney Houston singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl in 1992 during the Gulf War. 3. Aretha Franklin singing “The Star Spangled Banner” at the 1992 Democratic National Convention. 4. Santita Jackson singing “The Star Spangled Banner” at inaugural events for William Jefferson Clinton, January 20, 1997. 5. The anonymous black woman who sang at the first public memorial f…
Thirty Years of Black American Literature and Literary Studies
The past 30 years have witnessed an explosion of literary production by people of African descent. Although Black writers have been publishing their work for centuries, this has been an era of institutionalizing and diversifying literature, identifying and creating a market for it, and formalizing its study. This article explores a number of major trends that have influenced the production, distribution, and reception of African American literatu…
That the Mothers May Soar and the Daughters May Know Their Names
Children of Omar
The history of black people in the United States is an epic saga of dislocation, dispersal, and dispossession. Consequently the instability, insecurity, and disruption that accompany displacement have been a persistent part of the black experience in the United States. The post-Katrina crisis confronted by black New Orleanians was yet another chapter in this ongoing saga. This article seeks to explore the ways in which the culture and music of Ne…
At Last
In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age: First Lady Michelle Obama and entertainment mogul Beyonce Knowles. Both women signify change in race relations in America, yet both reveal that the history of racial inequality in this country is far from over. As an Ivy League-educated descendent of slaves, Michelle Obama is not just unfamiliar to the mainstream media and the Washington political scene; during th…
Can Anything Beat White?
Ann Petry (1908–1997) achieved prominence during a period in which few black women were published with regularity in America. Her novels Country Place (1947) and The Narrows (1988), along with various short stories and nonfiction, poignantly described the struggles and triumphs of middle-class blacks living in primarily white communities. Petry’s ancestors, the James family, served as inspiration for much of her fiction. This collection of more t…
Monument Eternal
Book Review| July 01 2012 Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane. By Franya Berkman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-8195-6925-7. Softcover. Pp. 160. $27.95. Farah Griffin Farah Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2012) 30 (2): 258–260. https://doi.org/10.5406/americanmusic.30.2.0258 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Faceb…
Pearl Primus and the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
This essay explores the extent to which the concept of black radical illuminates or limits understandings of the art and activism of dancer, choreographer, and activist Pearl Primus. Focusing on Primus’s emergence as a public figure and artist during the 1940s, the essay examines her involvement in leftist politics. During this period, Primus sought to navigate her leftist commitments with her own seemingly nationalist impulses. This is most evid…
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