Dagmawi Woubshet

Dagmawi Woubshet is the Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS.

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Revisiting One of King's Final and Most Haunting Sermons

Delivered two months before he died, “The Drum Major Instinct” saw the preacher give his own eulogy.
- Dagmawi Woubshet
- Apr 1, 2018
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The Imperfect Power of
I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck’s documentary brings to life James Baldwin’s urgent ideas about race in America, even if it leaves out a key aspect of the writer’s life and work: his sexuality.
- Dagmawi Woubshet
- Feb 8, 2017

Dagmawi Woubshet

Revisiting One of King's Final and Most Haunting Sermons

The Imperfect Power of I Am Not Your Negro

The Imperfect Power of
I Am Not Your Negro