Factoring Out Race: The Cultural Context of Dunbar

The Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference, sponsored by Stanford’s American Studies Program, explores new critical perspectives on the diversity of Dunbar’s literary production as a poet, novelist, lyricist, dramatist, and journalist. David Bradley, award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident, reappraises the way we read and understand America’s first professional African American Writer in a lecture on “Factoring Out Race: The Cultural Context of Paul Laurence Dunbar.” Stanford’s American Studies Program is an interdisciplinary major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Stanford University www.stanford.edu Paul Laurence Dunbar Centennial Conference www.stanford.edu Stanford Channel on youtube www.youtube.com