Southern University (BA) Purdue University (MA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline
African-American studies Women's studies English literature
Sub-discipline
Black feminism Black Women's studies
Akasha Gloria Hull (born December 6, 1944) is an American poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist activist has helped shape Women's Studies. As one of the architects of Black Women's Studies, her scholarship and activism has increased the prestige, legitimacy, respect, and popularity of feminism and African-American studies.
Hull has been a professor of women's studies and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Delaware, and the University of the West Indies (Mona campus) in Kingston, Jamaica. She has published four books, a monograph, three edited collections, more than twenty articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, numerous chapters in a dozen volumes, fifteen book reviews, poems in more than thirty magazines and anthologies, and two short stories. Her first novel, Neicy, was released in October 2012. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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AkashaGloriaHull (born December 6, 1944) is an American poet, educator, writer, and critic whose work in African-American literature and as a Black feminist...
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Blacks are men, but some of us are brave : Black women's studies. AkashaGloriaHull, Patricia Bell-Scott, Barbara Smith. Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist...
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Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, edited by AkashaGloriaHull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith (1982) Feministische Studien...
socialize, discuss their work, and exchange ideas. According to AkashaGloriaHull, Johnson's role in creating a place for black artists to nurture their...
highlighting the context of the African words being used in the play. AkashaGloriaHull, Review of The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play, The Women's...
Julie Carter Michelle T. Clinton Willie M. Coleman Alexis De Veaux Akasha (Gloria) Hull Patricia Jones Raymina Y. Mays Deidre McCalla Pat Parker Linda C...
Are Men, But Some Of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, edited by AkashaGloriaHull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith (1982) Hypatia: A Journal...
"Conditions: Five". Bitch Media. 6 May 2009. Retrieved 2021-03-29. Hull, AkashaGloria; Bell-Scott, Patricia; Smith, Barbara (1982). All the women are White...
1914-12-16. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-02-23 – via Newspapers.com. Hull, Gloria T.; Hull, AkashaGloria (1987). Color, Sex & Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem...
Collective members and contributors include: Cheryl Clarke Demita Frazier GloriaAkashaHull Audre Lorde Chirlane McCray Margo Okazawa-Rey Barbara Smith Beverly...
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