Shaun Armstead

Black Women’s Contributions to Hip-Hop Beyond the Mic

May 14, 2021June 5, 2021 Shaun Armstead Gender, hip hop, masculinity, music

When Wu-Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB) adorned his 1995 debut album, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version,

Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton’

February 2, 2021February 21, 2021 Shaun Armstead black feminism, blackness, popular culture, race, racism, Visual Culture

Since its release on Christmas Day, Bridgerton has attracted international attention for its racial cosmopolitan reenactment of early nineteenth-century Britain.

Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century

December 9, 2020January 11, 2021 Shaun Armstead #TheBlackRepublic, black internationalism, Black political thought, Haiti

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American