Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson
@whitfrazier.bsky.social
Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
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The Image and the Fire
Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a small, outsider literary collection—a...
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Book is finally out! Published with @umasspress.bsky.social 'The Image and the Fire" uses a #BlackStudies methodology to elucidate how Poundian Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance & the Black Arts Movements are in dialogue with each other. www.umasspress.com/978162534950...
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At the gate at JFK.
Me: who is blasting music?
Wife: Tracy Morgan
Looks up. It is Tracy Morgan.
Me: who is blasting music?
Wife: Tracy Morgan
Looks up. It is Tracy Morgan.
August 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
At the gate at JFK.
Me: who is blasting music?
Wife: Tracy Morgan
Looks up. It is Tracy Morgan.
Me: who is blasting music?
Wife: Tracy Morgan
Looks up. It is Tracy Morgan.
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Absolutely love Zines Are Back! by @violetbfox.bsky.social, a funny & fascinating look at how the rise / fall of zines has been depicted by mainstream media over the past 20 years.
July 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Absolutely love Zines Are Back! by @violetbfox.bsky.social, a funny & fascinating look at how the rise / fall of zines has been depicted by mainstream media over the past 20 years.
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Yes. In fact I did clip this and immediately send it to all my friends. :)
If the Matrix films were made today Elie for sure would be included on Zions high council!!!
July 2, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Yes. In fact I did clip this and immediately send it to all my friends. :)
Have a new piece up on @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social about Black literature and politics 100 years after the Harlem Renaissance www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/t...
Thoughts on Black Literature and Politics a Hundred Years after the Harlem Renaissance
A hundred years ago, in November of 1926, a group of the younger Harlem Renaissance luminaries put together a transgressive little magazine they called
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June 12, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Have a new piece up on @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social about Black literature and politics 100 years after the Harlem Renaissance www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/12/t...
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Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
May 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.
Very sorry to hear this..
R.I.P. to David Henderson (1942–2026), writer, poet, and "co-founder of Umbra Poets Workshop, a Lower East Side-based Black poets collective founded in 1962." Henderson was central to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s, esp in #NYC. www.instagram.com/p/DYX9vXjE4E2/ #poetry #BlackHistory
May 17, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Very sorry to hear this..
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Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s) | Cost of Freedom book.costoffreedom.cc/index-4/arab...
Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s) | Cost of Freedom
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May 17, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Towards a possible manifesto; proposing Arabfuturism(s) | Cost of Freedom book.costoffreedom.cc/index-4/arab...
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My latest on Amiri Baraka's Black Communications Archive is now open access: doi.org/10.1353/AFA....
May 17, 2026 at 5:01 AM
My latest on Amiri Baraka's Black Communications Archive is now open access: doi.org/10.1353/AFA....
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Every short for "Saturday Night Live" is its own new mini-production. These "pretape" sketches (fake ads, music videos and other shorts) go from a writer’s imagination to TV in a few days. They have been part of "SNL" since the beginning. Here's a behind-the-scenes look.
How ‘S.N.L’ Shorts Are Made Behind the Scenes
A rare glimpse behind the scenes reveals a frenetic process that has been refined across decades.
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May 17, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Every short for "Saturday Night Live" is its own new mini-production. These "pretape" sketches (fake ads, music videos and other shorts) go from a writer’s imagination to TV in a few days. They have been part of "SNL" since the beginning. Here's a behind-the-scenes look.
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From Dr Ainehi Edoro's Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think
May 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
From Dr Ainehi Edoro's Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think
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(Reposting this for the time zones when I'm usually asleep)
Trying this out with a clip from the Black Studies Podcast. I'm learning!
#Audiofuturism @fordhampress.bsky.social
#Audiofuturism @fordhampress.bsky.social
May 9, 2026 at 7:38 AM
(Reposting this for the time zones when I'm usually asleep)
Book is finally out! Published with @umasspress.bsky.social 'The Image and the Fire" uses a #BlackStudies methodology to elucidate how Poundian Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance & the Black Arts Movements are in dialogue with each other. www.umasspress.com/978162534950...
The Image and the Fire
Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology—a small, outsider literary collection—a...
www.umasspress.com
May 8, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Book is finally out! Published with @umasspress.bsky.social 'The Image and the Fire" uses a #BlackStudies methodology to elucidate how Poundian Imagism, the Harlem Renaissance & the Black Arts Movements are in dialogue with each other. www.umasspress.com/978162534950...
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Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:
May 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:
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So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.
April 30, 2026 at 3:39 AM
So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.
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as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
April 30, 2026 at 2:39 AM
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
Hey all! My book comes out in a week (May 8th!), and the book page is now up on @aalbc.bsky.social -- a website that supports #BlackBooks and #BlackWriters. My book is available everywhere, but I wanted to give special mention to AALBC for the great work they do. aalbc.com/books/the-im...
The Image and the Fire: The Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century, a book by Whit Frazier | AALBC
Information about the book, The Image and the Fire: The Subversive Anthology in the Twentieth Century: the Nonfiction, Paperback. #readingblack
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April 30, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Hey all! My book comes out in a week (May 8th!), and the book page is now up on @aalbc.bsky.social -- a website that supports #BlackBooks and #BlackWriters. My book is available everywhere, but I wanted to give special mention to AALBC for the great work they do. aalbc.com/books/the-im...
@cornelwest.bsky.social speaks at St John's College. "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times" -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7K...
(Cornel West) The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times
YouTube video by St. John's College
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April 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
@cornelwest.bsky.social speaks at St John's College. "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times" -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7K...
@cornelwest.bsky.social recently spoke at my alma mater St John's College (in NM, I attended in MD). Sounds great: "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times." I hope he publishes it. Du Bois spoke at SJC too; West builds on that.
www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....
www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....
www.santafenewmexican.com
April 13, 2026 at 1:59 PM
@cornelwest.bsky.social recently spoke at my alma mater St John's College (in NM, I attended in MD). Sounds great: "The Legacies of Athens and Jerusalem in our Catastrophic Times." I hope he publishes it. Du Bois spoke at SJC too; West builds on that.
www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....
www.santafenewmexican.com/.../article_....
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Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access).
The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic."
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The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic."
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Whose Heritage? The Curious Case of Countee Cullen’s Poetics in the Harlem Survey Graphic | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Whose Heritage? The Curious Case of Countee Cullen’s Poetics in the Harlem Survey Graphic - Volume 2
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April 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Recommended: a new piece by @whitfrazier.bsky.social in _Public Humanities_ journal (open access).
The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic."
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The piece compares the 2 versions of Countee Cullen's "Heritage." I believe it's the first to read it alongside the African sculptures in Locke's "Survey Graphic."
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This looks fantastic! brooklynrail.org/2026/03/musi...
Melvin Gibbs’s How Black Music Took Over the World | The Brooklyn Rail
For a relatively short (three-hundred pages) book on an enormous subject, it may seem impossible to be comprehensive. But Gibbs has the advantage of being one of music’s great inside-men, and he disce...
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April 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
This looks fantastic! brooklynrail.org/2026/03/musi...
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The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.
Writers Talking Writers: Benjamín Labatut on Roberto Bolaño
The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.
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April 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The National Book Award and International Booker–shortlisted novelist shares his passion for the late literary icon's enduring work.
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IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
April 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
IN OUR LATEST ISSUE
Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Claire Marie Class explores how Harlem Renaissance author and medical doctor Rudolph Fisher creatively harnesses the X-ray in his detective fiction
Read it on @projectmuse.bsky.social at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Wow, flummoxed. My book is number four on new releases for African American literary criticism (as of this post) ... Really not sure how that happened.... But preorder your copy now! Don't miss out! www.amazon.com/new-releases...
Amazon.com New Releases: The best-selling new & future releases in Black & African American Literary Criticism
Amazon.com New Releases: The best-selling new & future releases in Black & African American Literary Criticism
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April 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Wow, flummoxed. My book is number four on new releases for African American literary criticism (as of this post) ... Really not sure how that happened.... But preorder your copy now! Don't miss out! www.amazon.com/new-releases...
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SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026, 3 PM - 12 AM
Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration.
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Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration.
nightofideas.org/san-francisco/
March 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2026, 3 PM - 12 AM
Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration.
nightofideas.org/san-francisco/
Join Villa Albertine San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Circuit Network, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library for a dynamic marathon of talks, live performances, workshops, food, art, and shared exploration.
nightofideas.org/san-francisco/