Tyrone Williams, The George Oppen Memorial Lecture: December 6, 2019

africa african american culture african american writers aldon l. nielson amiri baraka answer songs anti-apartheid movement anti-colonialism antisemitism apartheid barbarians billy collins black dialect black nationalism cancel culture catholics charles olson christians cincinatti, oh civil rights movement class structure code switching colonization commodification communist party usa decolonization detroit, mi detroit riot, 1967 dorothy a. fowler trust edward hirsch ethnocentricity feminism francisco franco fresno, ca george oppen george oppen memorial lecture harold schimmel helen oyeyemi heteronormativity ideology jewish poets kenneth goldsmith labor langston hughes lectures lemon stills jr. lorenzo thomas male gaze marxism mary wells middle class minimalism modernist poetics national geographic nation of islam objectification patrick pritchett philip levine polysemy pop music pornography postmodern poetics protestants romans romanticism roy campbell samuel t. coleridge silence songwriters south africa spanish civil war the temptations toni morrison tony hoagland wallace stevens walt whitman white flight white privilege white supremacy william wordsworth working class