. The 2012 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society will explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American print culture, both on the page and off. It will draw on the American Antiquarian Society's extensive collections of materials related to African Americans, from political newspapers to children's books, from racist broadsides to anti-slavery almanacs, and from city directories to emigrationist tracts. Seminar participants will combine these investigations with readings of recent work bridging critical race studies and material culture. Together we will ask how the methodologies of print culture might help us reconsider familiar notions of authorship and identity, and how African American materials might transfigure conceptual standbys of print culture studies such as circulation and publics.
\n\nContact: Paul Erickson : 508-755-5221 : perickson@mwa.org [EK-AAS] DTSTAMP20130619T095806Z DTSTART:20120708T040000Z DTEND LOCATION:Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR