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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here. The politics

Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany.

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in