Hazel V. Carby, still going strong at 77!

Nice bit here: "Massachusetts is ‘True White’; New Hampshire, ‘Pure White’; Vermont, ‘Extra White’; and Maine ‘Ultra White’. Pennsylvania is, of course, ‘Antique White’."

Thank you for the clarifications. Agree that we should look at every bit of data! I think Virginia Woolf (“anonymous was a woman”) would have especially loved this story.

Even easier from an engineering point of view: wheels instead of legs.

Readers probably know "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," Hughes' first published poem for adult readers in a national venue.

But do you know Bennett's first published poem, "Heritage"?

"I want to feel the surging
Of my sad people's soul
Hidden by a minstrel-smile."

scalar.lehigh.edu/african-amer...

Hughes and Bennett also both spent time (separately) in Paris in the mid-1920s and were transformed by it.

And: both started publishing influential, breakthrough poetry in national venues in their very early 20s. (See Bennett's "Heritage" [1923] and Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers [1921])
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I agree it drags a little at the mid-point, but it could still be helpful at opening the minds of my American students who think of pros and cons of AI exclusively in the Euro-American context.

I might assign it alongside the article that inspired it from Fifty-Two.

fiftytwo.in/story/human-...

Yes, happily they came to me to contribute something to their volume! (I am writing something on Nair's beautiful -- but much maligned-- streaming/miniseries adaptation of "A Suitable Boy," something that of course came out after my book was published.)

I actually just came across your book a couple of weeks ago while looking for newer scholarship on canons & canonicity. Only a couple of chapters in, but it's been very helpful for what I'm thinking about. Congratulations on the prize from Narrative!

Glad you’re finding it helpful!

Agreed — something potentially quite powerful here, though it’s not quite there yet.

For my part I might wait for the next / updated version before shelling out any cash…

I might try that and give it another shot! Looking at the logs on my second query there was clearly something going wrong with respect to downloading files.

Thanks for sharing your experience with this! I modified your prompt for my own research question using the same browser.

Results were mixed (perhaps I should have tried improving my second prompt to make it more effective...). Some brief notes here:

www.electrostani.com/2025/10/brie...