Rosa Parks and the Image of Respectability
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Since the day she
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Black Identity
Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early Twentieth Century
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The politics of respectability
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Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: An Introduction
by Ralina L. Joseph & Jane Rhodes In the Spring of 2014 the two of us, former dissertation advisor and
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Planning a Class Visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
“The trip to the museum was a humbling experience. I felt the weight of the collective experience of my ancestors—their
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Blackness, a Haunted History
Historians generally frame their writing and research around the notion of change over time, assuming that time moves forward. But
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