Howard Rambsy

Biographic Data

ID1717908
NAMEHoward Rambsy
GIVEN NAMESHoward
FAMILY NAMERambsy
SIGNATURERAMBSY H
AFFILIATIONSSouthern Illinois University Edwardsville
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Malcolm X and The Slavery–Creativity Paradox

    Howard RambsyARTICLEThe Black Scholar2025

  • Collegiate Black Women and YouTube Poems

    Howard Rambsy, Howard Rambsy IIARTICLEThe Langston Hughes Review2023

    Access to a range of audio and video recordings of poems gives African American students exciting opportunities to engage literary art. Their interest in “YouTube poems” reflects an important combination: a longstanding veneration of dynamic African American speech acts and new developments in the circulation and consumption of poetry. Audio recordings and YouTube facilitate the interplay of technology and enduring Black verbal practices in Afric…

  • Forum

    Corrine Collins, Delisa D Hawkes et al.ARTICLEWomen s Studies2023References: 9

    Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See for example, Howard Rambsy II, “A select checklist of works by Trudier Harris.”2 Here I used David Dabydeen’s definition of Black British literature as “that created and published in Britain, largely for a British audience, by Black writers either born in Britain or who have spent a major portion of their lives in Britain,” even as he also troubles the …

  • An OutKast Reader

    Clinton R Fluker, Wendy M Laybourn et al.BOOKOutKast Reader2021

  • A Black Arts Poetry Machine

    Howard RambsyARTICLEAfrican American Review2020

    Reviewed by: A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets by David Grundy Howard Rambsy II David Grundy. A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 280pp. $114.00 Beginning in the mid-2000s, a succession of scholars produced works on the Black Arts Movement. Tony Bolden, Melba Joyce Boyd, Cheryl Clarke, James Smethurst, Kalamu ya Salaam, and several others published treatments on th…

  • The Remarkable Reception of Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Howard RambsyARTICLEAfrican American Review2016

    The Remarkable Reception of Ta-Nehisi Coates Howard Rambsy II (bio) If we’re talking about contemporary African American book history, then of course we’re discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me. Rarely has a book by a black author generated so much attention in the young twenty-first century. And why stop there? In the entire history of African American writing, relatively few writers have ever enjoyed the kind of extensive respo…

  • Guest Editors' Introduction

    Joycelyn Moody, Howard RambsyARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2015Cited by: 2

  • The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

    Open AccessHoward RambsyBOOKThe black arts enterprise and the…2013

    The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African Amer…

  • The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

    Open AccessHoward RambsyBOOKThe black arts enterprise and the…2011

    The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African Amer…