He is the co-director of The New Voices Festival, a celebration of work in poetry, prose, and playwriting by up-and-coming young writers. His book, Kazuo Ishiguro as World Literature, is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. He writes criticism on contemporary global literatures. Book Summary The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. from Brown University.Ĭhris Holmes is Chair of Literatures in English and Associate Professor at Ithaca College. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Delmont earned his B.A from Harvard University and his M.A. His next book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, will be published by Viking Books in 2022. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, NPR, and several academic journals. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of four books: Black Quotidian, Why Busing Failed, Making Roots, and The Nicest Kids in Town. Today I talked to Matthew Delmont about his new book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022)ĭelmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College.
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