Harvey Young is professor of English, theater, and African American and Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory and the Black Body (2010). Author photograph © Natasha Moustache.
Harvey Young
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White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy: A Conversation with Koritha Mitchell
“Not only does whiteness empower folk to destroy entire communities; it empowers them to say to your face that the destruction doesn’t have reverberating effects in the current moment.”
Roots 2.0
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage—to know who we are and where we have come from.”1 Alex Haley penned these words in an attempt to account for the extraordinary popularity of his 1976 book Roots and its 1977 television miniseries adaptation. In Roots, Haley traces his ancestry back […]
