The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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Black Feminism
Libraries, Literacy, and Community Building: An Interview with Brea McQueen
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Brea McQueen, a teen librarian in Cincinnati. McQueen has worked in libraries
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The Women of the Committee for Unified Newark (CFUN)
*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within
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The Roots of Antiblackness in the US and Brazil
At its core The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption & Black Suffering by João Vargas proposes an intriguing methodological question: Is
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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence
Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s
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