The Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) has been in the forefront of research and inclusion efforts in higher education for twenty-five years. Founded in 1983 at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, HBW is committed to
- literary recovery work in black studies
- textual scholarship, book history and pedagogy;
- professional development, curriculum change and innovation; and
- public literacy programming
As a major site for training graduate students and teachers, HBW operates within a network of collaborating professionals who are employed at various institutions and are often in different disciplines.