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Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion

In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here. The politics

Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany.

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in