Arna bontemps a full biography
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Arna Bontemps
Arna Bontemps is an Emeritus Professor of African and African American studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in His major fields of koncentration at Illinois were African American and Colonial American history, with minor concentrations in the national period of American history, and Latin American history. He first began teaching African American history at the university level as early as at Grinnell College (Iowa), but he has been doing so continuously since the lates when he began teaching at Hampton University in Virginia and throughout the s at Dartmouth College.
Although Bontemps' teaching fryst vatten partly driven by research concerns, most of his courses are broadly conceived, examining social, cultural, and political movements, as well as the intellectual concerns of people of African descent in America, beginning in Africa wi
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ARNAUD WENDELL BONTEMPS ()
Arnaud ("Arna") W. Bontemps was born to Paul Bismarck and Maria Carolina (Pembroke) Bontemps on October 13, , in Alexandria, Louisiana. Three years after Bontemps' birth, as a result of several racial incidents, his father moved the family to Los Angeles, California. Reared in California, Bontemps received his primary and secondary education in both the public and private schools of the state. In, he was graduated from Pacific Union College with an A. B. degree. On August 26, , Bontemps was married to the former Alberta Johnson, and they became the parents of six children (Joan Maria, Paul Bismarck, Poppy Alberta, Camille Ruby, Constance Rebecca, and Arna Alexander).In , he earned the M.L.S. degree from the Graduate School of Library Science, University of Chicago. The year following his graduation from Pacific Union College, Bontemps' literary career began when his poem "Hope" was published in Crisis
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Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, on October 13, , Arna W. Bontemps began life with roots in the Southern United States. But at age 3, Bontemps moved with his family to California, escaping the racism of the South. When Bontemps’s mother died, he was sent to live with his uncle who introduced him to Southern black culture. This exposure triggered a lifelong fascination with Southern culture, which Bontemps held for the rest of his life.
Arna Bontemps graduated from Pacific Union College and published his first poem, “Hope,” shortly after graduation, winning several awards for his poetry. Bright-eyed, young, and idealistic, he moved to Harlem, New York to teach. In Harlem Renaissance Remembered, Bontemps recollects the excitement he felt upon his first view of Harlem: “I looked over the rooftops of Negrodom and tried to believe my eyes. What a city! What a world!” Harlem had a heavy influence on Bontemps: He became an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, and he later became known