Truthout Interviews Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin About The "Impossible Creative Power" of Black Resistance

Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin is the subject of an interview in Truthout magazine's Feb. 25 article, "Black History Testifies to the Impossible Creative Power of Black Resistance." 

Griffin is the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, where she served as the department's inaugural chair.

In the interview, Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.

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Griffin received her BA in History & Literature from Harvard and her PhD in American Studies from Yale. She is the author or editor of eight books including “Who Set You Flowin?: The African American Migration Narrative” (Oxford, 1995), “Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II” (Basic Books, 2013), and “Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature” (W.W. Norton and Company 2021).