In the weeks immediately following its release, Jordan Peele’s Get Out quickly established itself as the crossover film ...
Irvin J. Hunt
Irvin J. Hunt is an assistant professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently completing his book manuscript, “The Common Need: Cooperative Economies in African American Literature, 1890–1980.” His articles and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in African American Literature: In Transition, 1750–2015, Public Books, American Literature, History and Humor: British and American Perspectives, and Boundary 2. 
Virtual Roundtable on Women Directors
It’s no secret that Hollywood has a diversity problem, especially when it comes to hiring directors ...
Saints on the Dollar
What would happen if you asked Gertrude Stein about the difference between culture and capital? Well, of course, dollar bills would fall from the heavens like flurries, all below would fan snow ...
Everybody’s Protest Play?
Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman restages a familiar scene: a young black man is killed, his body discarded like jetsam by his fellow citizens. This signature Black Arts play was revived this spring, for its ...