Prof @princeton | Author, The Matter of Black Living @uchicagopress | Editor, Norton Library, The Marrow of Tradition | Curator, Toni Morrison Sites of Memory
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24 Sep 2023
Excited that my book, The Matter of Black Living, has been shortlisted for The Modernist Studies Association's 2022 First Book Prize @msatweet @UChicagoPress
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8 Aug 2023
Happy #NewBookTuesday to the newest addition to the Norton Library, Charles W. Chesnutt's THE MARROW OF TRADITION! Professor @amariewomack details the political and literary contexts that inspired this groundbreaking historical novel.
wwnorton.com/books/978039387…
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8 May 2023
Thank you to everyone who has come out so far to see the exhibition Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory at @PULibrary. There is still time to see the show before it closes on June 4th, I promise it's worth the trip.
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4 May 2022
I'll be talking about all things The Matter of Black Living tomorrow with @SchererCenter and @SeminaryCoop tomorrow 5/5! Register here: bit.ly/3w2qzJW
4 May 2022
THE MATTER OF BLACK LIVING excavates the dynamic interplay between racial data and Black aesthetic production that shaped the late 19th century. @amariewomack discusses the book with Eric Slauter for the @SchererCenter, this Thursday 5/5. Register here:
bit.ly/3w2qzJW
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2 May 2022
There is still time to register for this event on Wednesday!
27 Apr 2022
Come join us May 4th at 4:10 EST for Practicing Zora: A Roundtable with @DrRJDBarnes @candicehoyes @amariewomack and Kevin Quashie!
You can sign up for the event at bit.ly/practicingzora.
ALT Practicing Zora: A Roundtable. The mainstream recognition of Zora Neale Hurston's contributions to anthropology and folklore has spawned a variety of aesthetic invocations, particularly to signal disruption, authenticity, and the avant-garde. In this roundtable, academics and artists will discuss how Hurston inspires their work and the phenomenon of Black women's use as the "sliding glass door" (James 2015) that opens up new conditions of possibility. We will reflect upon the instrumentalization of Black women to ask: How can we tend to their memory and legacy with care? Wednesday, May 4 2022 4:10 - 6 PM EST
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29 Apr 2022
Thank you to everyone who came out and tuned tonight and to @imaniperry for the generous and generative conversation!
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25 Apr 2022
This Thursday I'll have the honor of being in conversation with @imaniperry about The Matter of Black Living
register here: crowdcast.io/e/autumn-womack…
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21 Apr 2022
My book, The Matter of Black Living, has been out in the world for just over 2 weeks and is now available through @UChicagoPress Thank you to everyone for receiving it with open arms.
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Autumn Womack retweeted
3 Jun 2020
" I suggest...a distinction between listening to black living and to black life... To listen to black living is to hear what endures long after the video has stopped or the scene of murder has been cleared." @amariewomack #BlackLivesMattter lareviewofbooks.org/short-ta…
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Autumn Womack retweeted
14 May 2018
"The death toll is always one, plus one, plus one." —@tejucole
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14 May 2018
Casualty toll from today in Gaza now stands at 55 dead, including 6 minors. 2,770 wounded, including 225 children. Of the wounded over 1,350 were hit with live ammunition, according to Ministry of Health.
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Autumn Womack retweeted
10 May 2018
On the AAS 21 Podcast, @esglaude chats to @TeraWHunter, @jbguild, @amariewomack, @imaniperry, @KeeangaYamahtta, @Chikaokekeagulu, @ruha9 @JLWeisenfeld, @CornelWest, @nomadprof, Reena Goldthree, Naomi Murakawa & wise students Asanni York & Destiny Crockett. youtube.com/watch?v=ywEwgCAq…
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8 May 2018
Excited for more thoughtful work (like this from @parul_sehgal) that thinks care, survival, and the long shadow of slavery in Barracoon nytimes.com/2018/05/02/books…
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Autumn Womack retweeted
7 May 2018
My brilliant colleague Autumn Womack On Zora Neale Hurston's 'Barracoon' for the Paris Review: theparisreview.org/blog/2018…
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Autumn Womack retweeted
7 May 2018
How do you produce evidence of black life without reducing black people to inanimate facts and data? theparisreview.org/blog/2018…
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7 May 2018
I wrote an essay about Hurston, Barracoon, and the challenge of narrating the afterlife of slavery
theparisreview.org/blog/2018…
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