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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment

May 25, 2023May 23, 2023 Ray Dinsmore black press, book review, Built Environment, Chicago, Chicago Defender, Ebony Magazine

In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the

A Theory of Black Queer History

May 19, 2023May 17, 2023 Jennifer Dominique Jones #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, Black Studies, methods, Queer Black Studies

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. In the essay,

An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 Kwame Edwin Otu #DiscoBallBetweenUs, black queer studies, Black Studies, Kente Clothe, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari

The Theoretical Usefulness of Mess and Black Queer Studies

May 17, 2023May 16, 2023 Emily R. Bock #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. For a while

Online Roundtable–Jafari S. Allen’s ‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’

May 12, 2023May 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, Jafari S. Allen, Queer Theory

May 15–22, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Jafari