Black Feminist Imagination: An Interview with Janell Hobson
Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany.
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African diaspora
Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?
Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,
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The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Brazilian Publisher
Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in
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Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa
Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in
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Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History
African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,
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