Black Literature Seminars: Writing Black Experience

Black Literature Seminars: Writing Black Experience

This piece is very critical of the Black literature seminars held on campus for J-term. The author criticizes the two black authors for their alleged lack of organization and references to works that the audience was unfamiliar with. Further, when asked if Middlebury should teach black literature, the two speakers said yes, on the condition that the person teaching black literature is black, this response did not sit well with the author of this piece who found that answer to be contradictory.

Volume 66, Number 12

Steve Collier

The Campus

2/18/1971

Steve Collier
James Haskins
Robert Hobbs

"If the black experience itself can never be communicated to those who do not share it, especially through literature, then how an intermediary such as a black instructor relate it any more successfully?"