‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne
In today’s post, Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, interviews Priscilla
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Black Identity
The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler
When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful
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Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount
In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black
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Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier
At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid
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Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka
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