“A Moment of Protest Becomes a Curricular Object”

Abstract

A speech delivered as the keynote address at Brandeis University's AAAS 50th Anniversary, where Hortense Spillers received Brandeis University's Alumni Achievement Award on February 11, 2019.¹

Keywords:

• history of black studies
• Brandeis University
• student protest

Notes

Notes

1 Excerpt from speech delivered as the keynote address at Brandeis University’s AAAS 50^th Anniversary, where Hortense Spillers received Brandeis University’s Alumni Achievement Award (February 11, 2019).

2 Merl R. Eppse, The Negro, Too, in American History, (Chicago, New York: National Educational Publishing Co, Inc, 1938).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Hortense J. Spillers

Hortense Spillers is literary critic and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (University of Chicago, 2003), which includes the groundbreaking essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” originally published in 1987.