CLA, April 6, 2018 Jerry W. Ward, Jr. PHBW: Negotiating the Ideas of Seven Writers [1] Founded in 1983 by Dr. Maryemma Graham, "The Afro-American Novel Project" (AANP) had the initial goal of identifying all published novels written by African Americans from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. AANP became The Project on the History of Black Writing (PHBW) in 1990 to reflect an enlarged vision and a more ambitious aim. PHBW want to make a substantial contribution to what we then spoke of as our "Profession" by organizing bibliographic information and databases, sponsoring institutes and seminars, and by encouraging our colleagues to have rigorous engagements with all genres of black (African American) "writing" within frames of historical inquiry. The Project's working frame was an adaptation of the paradigm of unity in African American Studies , f
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