Purdue University Black Alumni Authors
We recognize the following Black authors, all alumni of Purdue University, and their contributions to literature. Their powerful use of language is changing the world.
Omari Dyson
“African American Culture: An Encyclopedia of People, Traditions, and Cultures”
“The Black Panther Party and Transformative Pedagogy: Place-Based Education in Philadelphia”
Aria S. Halliday
“The Black Girlhood Studies Collection”
Dr. Stephany Rose Spaulding
“Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop: Crises in Whiteness”
Philathia Bolton
“Teaching With Tension: Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom”
Stephanie Andrea Allen
“Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Fiction” (with Lauren Cherelle)
Deborah McDowell
“Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin”
“The Changing Same: Black Women’s Literature, Criticism, and Theory”
Maya Rockeymoore
“The Political Action Handbook: A How-To Guide for the Hip Hop Generation”
Cassander Smith
“Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies: A Critical Anthology”
(with Nicholas Jones and Miles Grier)
“Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World”
Ernest L. Gibson III
“Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin’s Novelization of Male Intimacy”
Heidi R. Lewis (with Roland Mitchell and Takiyah Nur Amin)
“Beyond Mammy, Jezebel & Sapphire: Reclaiming Images of Black Women”
