From Quinn@webmail.hope.edu Sun Oct 15 12:57:55 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA163906 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:57:55 -0700 Received: from hope.edu (webmail.hope.edu [198.110.98.17]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA01263 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:57:54 -0700 Received: from [198.110.109.177] (Quinn@webmail.hope.edu); Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:53:58 -0400 X-WM-Posted-At: hope.edu; Sun, 15 Oct 00 15:53:58 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <000e01c03564$74d6a680$87033ad8@igs.net> <20001013003736.295D830C2@sitemail.everyone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:57:55 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: John Quinn Subject: Re: 19C black classicists >Does anyone know of studies of 19th century black American >classicists? Michele Valerie Ronnick published a look at William Sanders Scarborough in *Classical Outlook* 74 (1997), pp.139-140. He eventually rose to President of Wilberforce (yes, a historically-black institution in Ohio), 1908-1920 -- esp. interesting because he had been ousted from his position at Scarborough in the mid 1890s, in part for refusing to endorse Booker T. Washington's call for vocational training at the expense of education in the humanities. W.E.B. DuBois, fresh from his work in Germany, was his replacement. (check out DuBois' own autobiographical writings for his experience as a classicist ...) The artile on Scarborough is part of *CO*'s "Classica Americana" series which has been paying much attention to early African-American classicists (esp. courtesy of Ronnick & Trudy Harrington Becker). jtq Prof. John T. Quinn quinn@hope.edu Dept. of Modern & (616) 395-7562 Classical Languages Hope College Holland, MI 49423 "The Quinns are of course exotics -- their language and their selves are fantastic and extreme. But the orotundity of their language is about the energy and imagination required to divert from the actual poverty." -- Chris Hannan, author's note to *Elizabeth Gordon Quinn* (1985) .