The American Minervan

Tag: Black Classicists

  • The Fourteen Black Classicists from Michele Valerie Ronnick’s Exhibition

    The Fourteen Black Classicists from Michele Valerie Ronnick’s Exhibition

    Michele Valerie Ronnick’s traveling photographic exhibition originally focused on twelve BLACK CLASSICISTS debuted in 2003 and was later expanded to fourteen Black Classicists. Ronnick’s exhibition has undergone 50 iterations in 15 years and her project began in the 1990s. This mosaic history displays pioneering Black scholars of Greek and Latin from the late nineteenth and…

  • Introduction to Black Republicanism: Five Early Figures, Wheatley to Douglass

    Introduction to Black Republicanism: Five Early Figures, Wheatley to Douglass

    In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a small but influential group of Black intellectuals engaged deeply with Greco-Roman classics and the ideals of classical republicanism. This engagement was multifaceted in that they drew on ancient texts to demonstrate Black intellectual capacity in the face of racist denials. This challenged e.g., claims by Thomas…