All Episodes
Remarkable Receptions — 236 episodes
The Case for Coates as a Comic Book Writer -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Star Wars for Black People -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Rumors of Scipio Moorhead -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Painting the Enslaved as Liberated -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Phillis Wheatley Across Time -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Naming Black Poetry -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Racialized Anointments -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Morrison from Nine Appearances to Thousands -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Free Books -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Fantastic Findings Forum -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Subfields in African American Literary Studies ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Alliteration as Cultural Strategy ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Masking in The Boondocks -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
How Three Black Women Changed Toni Morrison’s Story ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Viewing Amy Sherald
Hearing African American literary studies -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A Different Review Model -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Pronouncing Du Bois -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Paul Laurence Dunbar school names -- ep. Howard Rambsy II
Names in African American Short Stories -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
Names in African American Novels -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Novelizing Black Panther -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Seeing Nigerian Writers -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Why Read Edward P. Jones Right Now -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
Toni Morrison and the 1970s -- ep. by Elizabeth Cali
Forgotten Readers -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Morrison and Dissertations -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Another Social Protest Adaptation -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Our Most Prolific Scholarly Reader -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Carolyn Denard and the Toni Morrison Society -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Literary Navigator Device -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Zora Neale Hurston’s Short Stories of Love and Betrayal -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
What Dismantling DEI means for African American Literary Studies - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Greatest 30 Years of Black Men's Writing - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
200th episode -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Morrison as Editor -- ep. By Angel C. Dye
Novel Generator Machine -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Black Readership Grievances -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Three Best-selling Comics -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
James as a Neo-Slave Narrative -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Playful Representations of Slavery -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Future of Black DH -- ep. By Kenton Rambsy
The Debt Our Field Owes Black Students -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Making African American Lit Audible -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Talking Books -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Growth of Audiobooks -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Bryan Hill, Prolific Comic Book Writer -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
When Did Contemporary Black Literature Begin? -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
One Black Writer at a Time -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
African American Fiction at the Airport -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Evolution of Afrofuturism -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Rise of Afrofuturism in the 1990s -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Reader -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A New Map of Wakanda -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Orrin C. Evans, Trailblazer in Comics -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The Story of James Baldwin's Sonny Blues -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
From Uranium to Vibranium -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Andrew Theising's East St. Louis Postcards -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Matt Baker, A Pioneer in Comics -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
Three Top Black Novels on Wikipedia -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Ta-Nehisi Coates Responds to Responses -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Jackie Ormes, Breaking Barriers in Comics -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The Story of Zora Neale Hurston's Sweat -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
The Story Architect Behind Celebrity Memoirs -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Saga of Huey Freeman -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
George Herriman and the Legacy of Krazy Kat -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The Greatest 25 Years in Black Women’s Writing? -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Representations of Slavery as Creative Inspiration -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Organizing African American Literature -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Diverse Evolution of the Batman Family -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The Puzzle of Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Reasons to Stop Watching -- ep. by Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II
Edward P. Jones, the Neighborhood Preservationist -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
2000s Black Superheroes -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
99 Career Options (and Teaching’s Just One) -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Edward P. Jones's Approach to Storytelling -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
Unremarkable Receptions -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Spider-Verse -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The Acacia Tree Sunset Treatment -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
African American Silent Generation -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Trans-national African Women Writers -- ep. Makayla Mallon
The Origins of Neo-slave Narrative -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Malcolm X and the Man with the Shotgun -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Malcolm X Crime Scene Investigators -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The 150th Episode of Remarkable Receptions -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Days After Toni Morrison Died -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Moon Girl -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
Furious Flower IV -- ep. by Angel C. Dye
Unnamed African American Protagonists -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Cade Bambara's "The Lesson" -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
Considering Katherine Dunham
Black Men Writers, the New York Times, and a Missed Opportunity -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
African American Novelists at the Age of Debut
Milestone Media - ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The Toni Morrison Society in Martinique - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A Defining Book on the Black Arts Movement - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Casting Shug Avery ep. by Nicole Dixon
Casting Celie ep. by Nicole Dixon
Casting Black People ep. by Nicole Dixon
Chester Himes’s Contribution to Blaxploitation
Three Adaptations of Native Son ep. by Nicole Dixon
Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, and The Birth of a Nation ep. by Nicole Dixon
The Forever Trailer--The Underground Railroad ep. by Nicole Dixon
Samuel Jackson and the Casting debate ep. by Nicole Dixon
Streaming African American Novel Adaptations ep. by Nicole Dixon
The Color Purple, Again and Again ep. by Nicole Dixon
Katherine Dunham -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II and Danielle Hall
Oscar Micheaux Adaptation of an Adaptation -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Locating the Big 7 -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy
Trudier Harris's Bigger: A Literary Life -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
James & Huck -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Audio and African American Bibliography -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Amiri Baraka and Black World magazine -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Carolyn Fowler's Groundbreaking Bibliographic Work -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Black Bibliography Project -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
African American literature and the Cold War period -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Elizabeth McHenry, Kinohi Nishikawa, and African American literary studies -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Morrison and African American literary studies -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Black Writers in support of Toni Morrison -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Rise of 19th Century Studies -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Words of Fire -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Resources and African American literary studies -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Our Very Own Norton -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Tradition Imperative -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Field of African American Literary Studies -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Memorable Opening Lines
Black Novels and Screen Adaptations
English majors and Career Preparation
Colorism and Black Literature
A Sociology of African American Literature - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Internal Dialogue of Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto
The Internal Dialogue of Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle
1987 - Pivotal Year in Black Literary History - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The 100th episode of Remarkable Receptions -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Casting Viola Davis -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Toni Morrison as Voice Actor -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Trouble with Leading Writer on Race Coverage -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Resounding Talents of Dion Graham -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
That Dramatic Scene from Batman and the Outsiders #1 -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Sound & Talent of Robin Miles -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Noticing Riley from "Heads of the Colored People" -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
A Black Voice in a galaxy far, far away -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
1990s Black Superheroes -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
Ironheart -- Riri Williams -- ep. by Cindy Reed
Announcing Ta-Nehisi Coates as a Marvel writer -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
When Nick Fury became black -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Angela Bassett's Queen status performance -- ep. by Terrance Wellmaker
1980s Black Superheroes -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
Responding to Rion Amilcar Scott's robot, AI story
Born in Blackness and São Tomé -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The prolific and creative work of Colson Whitehead -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's most far-reaching honor -- ep. by Jewell Humphrey
Black novel dedications -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Richard Wright, Keneth Kinnamon, and bibliography -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
An unforgettable scene from Sula -- ep. by Cindy Reed
Southern Black Writers -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Understanding Octavia Butler -- ep. by Ebony Lumumba
Casting Cora -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Casting Bias -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Black Diaspora and Casting Possibilities -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Frank Yerby -- ep. by Valerie Matthews
Ann Petry's The Street - ep. by Angel C. Dye
Miles Morales -- ep. by Terrance Wellmaker
The Oracle, Ben McFall -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Morrison's statement about writing & revision -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
From Verses to Visuals on Jack Johnson -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Jonathan Majors the Conqueror -- ep. by Terrance Wellmaker
Wayetu Moore’s She Would Be King -- ep. by Ebony Lumumba
1970s Black Superheroes -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
African American literature, film adaptations, and Barry Jenkins -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Some Ways of Thinking about African American Literary Data Work -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
African American Literary Data Work -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
Quantifying Toni Morrison's Reception -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
Film Adaptations and Wikipedia pageviews - ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
Quantifying African American Novel Ratings on Goodreads -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
Frequently Featured Authors in the CLA Journal -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
Frequently Featured Authors in African American Review -- ep. by Kenton Rambsy and Howard Rambsy II
The most African American literature courses in the country -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
August Wilson -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
Blade, Vampire Hunter
Novelist and Television writer, Nichelle Tramble Spellman -- ep. by Nicole Dixon and Howard Rambsy II
Marc Olden, a prolific, largely unknown novelist -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Storm -- ep. by Stephyn Phillips
The 50th Episode of Remarkable Receptions - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Waiting to Exhale film adaptation - ep. by Nicole Dixon
Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Midnight Angels - ep. by Howard Rambsy II
HBW's Novel Collection
African American Literature Survey Courses -- ep. by Elizabeth Cali and Howard Rambsy II
The Bench by the Road Project -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Oprah Winfrey, Film, and African American literature -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
One of the smartest characters in African American fiction -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
The Green Lantern (John Stewart) -- ep. Stephyn Phillips
The Color Purple musical adaptation -- ep. by Carmin Wong
Read black novels, find Harriet Jacobs’s legacy -- Elizabeth Cali
The Color Purple film adaptation -- ep. by Nicole Dixon
The Bluest Eye doesn’t go down easy -- Kathryn Warren
Static Shock -- episode by Stephyn Phillips
Black men novelists and intellectual traditions -- ep. by Howard Rambsy II
Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale -- episode by Aneeka Ayanna Henderson
How Students Connect to Ralph Ellison's "Battle Royal"
The Mixed Results of Sutton Griggs's debut -- episode by John Gruesser
Black women writers courses - episode by Howard Rambsy II
Angie Thomas and Literary Activism - episode by Ebony Lumumba
Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy - episode by Emily VanDette
African American Novels and the 1990s
Graphic Novel--On Truth Red, White & Black -- episode by Stephyn Phillips
The Story of Battle Royal - episode by Kenton Rambsy
"The Sisterhood, 1977" photograph -- episode by Courtney Thorsson
Black Writers & Afro-Mississippians -- episode by C. Liegh McInnis
The Evolving Reception of The Bluest Eye -- episode by Richard Schur
Richard Wright's Native Son -- episode by Joseph G. Ramsey
Toni Morrison and the Seven Days -- episode by Abbey Morgan
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - episode by Laura Vrana
Colson Whitehead and Vocabulary – episode by Howard Rambsy II
Paul Beatty and the Booker Prize – episode by Cameron Leader-Picone
Trudier Harris’s prolific scholarship on African American Novels -- episode by Howard Rambsy II
Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) – episode by Donavan Ramon
Toni Morrison and Vocabulary – episode by Howard Rambsy II
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) – episode by Shanna Benjamin
Black cultural mythology and Song of Solomon -- episode by Christel Temple
Ernest Gaines and film -- episode by Keith Clark
Paul Beatty and Vocabulary – episode by Howard Rambsy II
Reading Jesmyn Ward at Parchman -- episode by Ebony Lumumba
Octavia Butler and Wikipedia -- episode by Howard Rambsy II and Kenton Rambsy
Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar's Daughter – episode by Alisha Knight
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple – episode by Kathy Lou Schultz
The Largest Vocabulary in African American Lit. -- episode by Howard Rambsy II
3 Novels, 3 Years: Pauline Hopkins - episode by Elizabeth Cali
Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone -- episode by Richard Schur
Richard Wright's infamous review -- episode by Howard Rambsy II
Toni Morrison's Beloved -- episode by Courtney Thorsson
Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing -- episode by Ebony Lumumba
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad - episode by Howard Rambsy II and Elizabeth Cali
Remarkable Receptions -- description