Kenneth W Warren
Biographic Data
| ID | 308728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth W Warren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth W |
| FAMILY NAME | Warren |
| SIGNATURE | WARREN K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Back to Black: African American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment
For more than a century, scholars of Black literature have sought to align a critical project focused on identifying and celebrating Black distinctiveness with a social project aimed at redressing racial inequality. This commitment to Black distinctiveness announces itself as a project on behalf of “the race” as a whole, but has always been, and remains, a project and politics guided in the first instance by the needs and outlook of the Black pro…
Renewing Black intellectual history: The ideological and material foundations of African American thought
A Reply to My Critics
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Response to Marlon B. Ross’s Review Essay
Response to Marlon B. Ross’s Review Essay Kenneth W. Warren Editor’s Note:The letter below is a response to Marlon B. Ross’s “Kenneth W. Warren’s What Was African American Literature?: A Review Essay,” Callaloo 35.3 (Summer 2012): 604–612. [Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 1:18 PM] Dear Charles It’s been some years since we last spoke or corresponded. I was just out at Oxford in November for a conference on Alain Locke and learned that you were to …
What Was African American Literature?
What Was African American Literature
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature - and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these param…
IISociology and The Wire
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance
Anne Elizabeth Carroll argues that the myriad visual images accompanying written texts during the Harlem Renaissance offer an important, if often overlooked, key to understanding the period. Carroll claims this cultural moment was defined less by the texts of individual authors than by what she terms “collaborative illustrated volumes” featuring multiple writers and authors (p. 3). These volumes—which included W. E. B. Du Bois's magazine the Cris…
The afterlife of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In the introduction to the Vintage edition of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison recalls the Vermont summer of 1945 during which he began to write his soon-to-be-classic novel of race and identity. Ellison remembers that while unsuccessfully "plotting a novel based on the war then in progress," he happened upon
Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority
Research Article| May 01 2003 Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 157–174. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-2-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority. boundary 2 1 May 2003; 30 (2): 157–174. doi: https:…
The End(s) of African American Studies
Whether or not one is inclined to credit Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s apologia pro vita sua, the familiarity of the question and the plausibility of his response point up what has become a common way of understanding at least one facet of black-white racial inequality in the US. In this view, many of those social ills commonly tracked by racial classification (e.g., numbers of families living below the poverty line, numbers of births among unwed teen…
Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir
Book Review| December 01 2000 Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir By Michael Awkward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 208 pp.$25.00. Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 893–894. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-893 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; Scenes of Ins…
An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars
Research Article| August 01 2000 An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 153–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-3-153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race betw…
As white as anybody: Race and the Politics of Counting as Black
With Census 2000 questionnaires in mail during March of 2000, word from black format radio to its listener base was unequivocal: avoid undercount. Fill out and return your census forms.1 The Undercount, of course, is term for widely known fact that US census routinely misses some number of nation's citizenry in its attempt to count nation's population. More to point, although 1980 and 1990 censuses each missed less than two percent of those not c…
Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism
Thinking Beyond Catastrophe: Leon Forrest's There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
The Mythic City: An Interview With Leon Forrest
The Problem of Anthologies, or Making the Dead Wince
Delimiting America: The Legacy of Du Bois
Journal Article Delimiting America: The Legacy of Du Bois Get access Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 172–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/1.1.172 Published: 01 March 1989
IISociology and The Wire
An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars
Research Article| August 01 2000 An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 153–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-3-153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race betw…
The Problem of Anthologies, or Making the Dead Wince
Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority
Research Article| May 01 2003 Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 157–174. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-2-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority. boundary 2 1 May 2003; 30 (2): 157–174. doi: https:…
As white as anybody: Race and the Politics of Counting as Black
With Census 2000 questionnaires in mail during March of 2000, word from black format radio to its listener base was unequivocal: avoid undercount. Fill out and return your census forms.1 The Undercount, of course, is term for widely known fact that US census routinely misses some number of nation's citizenry in its attempt to count nation's population. More to point, although 1980 and 1990 censuses each missed less than two percent of those not c…
Delimiting America: The Legacy of Du Bois
Journal Article Delimiting America: The Legacy of Du Bois Get access Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Literary History, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 172–189, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/1.1.172 Published: 01 March 1989
Thinking Beyond Catastrophe: Leon Forrest's There is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden
The Mythic City: An Interview With Leon Forrest
The Problem of Anthologies, or Making the Dead Wince
Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism
The End(s) of African American Studies
Whether or not one is inclined to credit Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s apologia pro vita sua, the familiarity of the question and the plausibility of his response point up what has become a common way of understanding at least one facet of black-white racial inequality in the US. In this view, many of those social ills commonly tracked by racial classification (e.g., numbers of families living below the poverty line, numbers of births among unwed teen…
Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir
Book Review| December 01 2000 Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir By Michael Awkward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 208 pp.$25.00. Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 893–894. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-893 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; Scenes of Ins…
An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars
Research Article| August 01 2000 An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race between the Wars Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2000) 27 (3): 153–169. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-27-3-153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; An Inevitable Drift? Oligarchy, Du Bois, and the Politics of Race betw…
As white as anybody: Race and the Politics of Counting as Black
With Census 2000 questionnaires in mail during March of 2000, word from black format radio to its listener base was unequivocal: avoid undercount. Fill out and return your census forms.1 The Undercount, of course, is term for widely known fact that US census routinely misses some number of nation's citizenry in its attempt to count nation's population. More to point, although 1980 and 1990 censuses each missed less than two percent of those not c…
Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority
Research Article| May 01 2003 Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority Kenneth W. Warren Kenneth W. Warren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 157–174. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-30-2-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth W. Warren; Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Cultural Authority. boundary 2 1 May 2003; 30 (2): 157–174. doi: https:…
The afterlife of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In the introduction to the Vintage edition of Invisible Man Ralph Ellison recalls the Vermont summer of 1945 during which he began to write his soon-to-be-classic novel of race and identity. Ellison remembers that while unsuccessfully "plotting a novel based on the war then in progress," he happened upon
Word, Image, and the New Negro: Representation and Identity in the Harlem Renaissance
Anne Elizabeth Carroll argues that the myriad visual images accompanying written texts during the Harlem Renaissance offer an important, if often overlooked, key to understanding the period. Carroll claims this cultural moment was defined less by the texts of individual authors than by what she terms “collaborative illustrated volumes” featuring multiple writers and authors (p. 3). These volumes—which included W. E. B. Du Bois's magazine the Cris…
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
What Was African American Literature
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature - and to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these param…
IISociology and The Wire
What Was African American Literature?
A Reply to My Critics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Response to Marlon B. Ross’s Review Essay
Response to Marlon B. Ross’s Review Essay Kenneth W. Warren Editor’s Note:The letter below is a response to Marlon B. Ross’s “Kenneth W. Warren’s What Was African American Literature?: A Review Essay,” Callaloo 35.3 (Summer 2012): 604–612. [Sent: Friday, December 7, 2012 1:18 PM] Dear Charles It’s been some years since we last spoke or corresponded. I was just out at Oxford in November for a conference on Alain Locke and learned that you were to …
Renewing Black intellectual history: The ideological and material foundations of African American thought
Back to Black: African American Literary Criticism in the Present Moment
For more than a century, scholars of Black literature have sought to align a critical project focused on identifying and celebrating Black distinctiveness with a social project aimed at redressing racial inequality. This commitment to Black distinctiveness announces itself as a project on behalf of “the race” as a whole, but has always been, and remains, a project and politics guided in the first instance by the needs and outlook of the Black pro…
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