The American Minervan

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  • The Contributions of Black American Classicists against Racism

    The Contributions of Black American Classicists against Racism

    Beyond the well-known figures like Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass mentioned in the Introduction to Five Early Figures, a generation of Black American classicists emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, often born into slavery or its immediate aftermath. These scholars mastered Greek and Latin to refute racial inferiority claims and assert our…

  • 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…