{"id":127,"date":"2019-10-11T12:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/?page_id=127"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T21:19:06","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/07\/af_am_lit_poster_1920x1080-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for Issues and Debates in African American Literature exhibition\" class=\"wp-image-278\" style=\"width:741px;height:417px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/07\/af_am_lit_poster_1920x1080-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/07\/af_am_lit_poster_1920x1080-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/07\/af_am_lit_poster_1920x1080-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/07\/af_am_lit_poster_1920x1080-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2020\/07\/af_am_lit_poster_1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While African Americans have long shared the goals of improving their lives and combatting injustice, there have been many different visions and strategies used to achieve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those often competing strategies, which have been preserved through literature and other print media, serve as the focus of the \u201cIssues and Debates in African American Literature\u201d exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This exhibition highlights rare and significant items that illustrate the varied strains of African American literary and intellectual life in play over the past hundred years \u2014 many of which remain relevant discussions for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curated by Curtis Small, Senior Assistant Librarian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While African Americans have long shared the goals of improving their lives and combatting injustice, there have been many different visions and strategies used to achieve them. Those often competing strategies, which have been preserved through literature and other print media, serve as the focus of the \u201cIssues and Debates in African American Literature\u201d exhibition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/issues-and-debates-in-african-american-literature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}