Teaching Maria Stewart and Antebellum Black Public Spheres
I find that students intuitively understand the concept of the black public sphere as a “safe space” for the expression
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Easter 1942, A Reflection on the Double Victory Campaign
Since this is the Easter holiday weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on another Easter 73 years
Read moreFrederick Douglass’s Narrative and Teaching Intellectual History
Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of, if not the, foremost black intellectuals of the 19th century. His wide-ranging
Read more“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power
When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or
Read moreThe Idea of the Black Intellectual
When I first began to teach a class titled Black Intellectual Thought, I wanted to broaden the classic definition of
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