Randal Maurice Jelks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randal Maurice Jelks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randal Maurice |
| FAMILY NAME | Jelks |
| SIGNATURE | JELKS R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Joy of the Black South
This review article examines Zora Neale Hurston’s views on the joyful existence of Afro-Southerners. She did not believe the South was backward or inferior to middle-class northerners. The article explores philosopher Lindsey Stewart’s book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s and Genevieve West’s Zora Neale Hurston, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays to think through issues of Bla…
Zora's Legacy
Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was at once current, forward-thinking, and timeless when it was published on September 18, 1937. Emergent writer Richard Wright harshly criticized what would become Hurston's seminal work for its supposed minstrel characterizations—for being stuck in old, stereotypical portrayals of blackness—just two weeks after its debut as part of his impassioned yet myopic effort to usher in a new era of…
Black Love after E. Franklin Frazier
Masculinity, Religion, and Modernism
This article is a comparative consideration of Morehouse College president and public theologian Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) and novelist Richard Wright (1908-60). Their respective views on modernism were developed through a gendered lens of black Southern masculinity and religion that each experienced during his formative childhood. Mays and Wright responded differently to theism and Christianity. They also responded differently to the moth…
Lee Sartain. Borders of Equality
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement
"Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis
Richard Wright wrote in his introduction to St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton's seminal sociological study Black Metropolis (1945): “Chicago is the known city; more is known about it, how it is run, how it kills, how it loves, steals, helps, gives, cheats, and crushes than any other city in the world” (p. xviii). In the historian Christopher Robert Reed's mind however, Wright's description was not completely accurate. Reed asks what the black …
The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis
Richard Wright wrote in his introduction to St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton's seminal sociological study Black Metropolis (1945): “Chicago is the known city; more is known about it, how it is run, how it kills, how it loves, steals, helps, gives, cheats, and crushes than any other city in the world” (p. xviii). In the historian Christopher Robert Reed's mind however, Wright's description was not completely accurate. Reed asks what the black …
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement
"Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement" published on by University of North Carolina Press.
The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis
Richard Wright wrote in his introduction to St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton's seminal sociological study Black Metropolis (1945): “Chicago is the known city; more is known about it, how it is run, how it kills, how it loves, steals, helps, gives, cheats, and crushes than any other city in the world” (p. xviii). In the historian Christopher Robert Reed's mind however, Wright's description was not completely accurate. Reed asks what the black …
Masculinity, Religion, and Modernism
This article is a comparative consideration of Morehouse College president and public theologian Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) and novelist Richard Wright (1908-60). Their respective views on modernism were developed through a gendered lens of black Southern masculinity and religion that each experienced during his formative childhood. Mays and Wright responded differently to theism and Christianity. They also responded differently to the moth…
Lee Sartain. Borders of Equality
Black Love after E. Franklin Frazier
Zora's Legacy
Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God was at once current, forward-thinking, and timeless when it was published on September 18, 1937. Emergent writer Richard Wright harshly criticized what would become Hurston's seminal work for its supposed minstrel characterizations—for being stuck in old, stereotypical portrayals of blackness—just two weeks after its debut as part of his impassioned yet myopic effort to usher in a new era of…
Joy of the Black South
This review article examines Zora Neale Hurston’s views on the joyful existence of Afro-Southerners. She did not believe the South was backward or inferior to middle-class northerners. The article explores philosopher Lindsey Stewart’s book The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism and Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s and Genevieve West’s Zora Neale Hurston, You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays to think through issues of Bla…
Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works)