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Guest Commentator

Linda Hunt Beckman

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Linda Hunt Beckman is Professor Emerita at Ohio University and has taught at the university of Massachsuetts in Boston and Arcadia University in Philadelphia. Her publications include A Woman’s Portion: Ideology, Culture, and the Female Novel Tradition; Amy Levy: Her Life & Letters, and the entry on Amy Levy for the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that Oxford University Press published in 2004. At Ohio University, in addition to being Professor of English, she was Director of Women’s Studies for ten years. She participated in the Civil Rights Movement in 1968, interviewing tenant farmers about hunger and malnutrition and, with Gary Hunt and Nancy Scheper-Hughes, writing an article that appeared in Ramparts magazine in November, 1969. Click here to contact Ms. Beckman.

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Guest Commentary

Quilt Story: Black Rural Women, White Urban Entrepreneurs, and the American Dream

By Linda Hunt Beckman Guest Commentator

In May 2012 a new exhibition of quilts from Gee�s Bend, Alabama will open in Nashville. William Arnett, with his companies that all have �Tinwood� in their names, has won recognition as art for patchwork from this African American hamlet. But there has been criticism. A remark, made in an interview on Alabama Public Television…

In May 2012 a new exhibition of quilts from Gee�s Bend, Alabama will open in Nashville. William Arnett, with his companies that all have �Tinwood� in…

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