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Me, My Mom, and Her Mental Illness

October 14, 2020October 10, 2020 Billie-Rae Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, #MentalHealth, Black women, Gender

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Pandemic Deepens Food Inequality in Brooklyn

October 13, 2020October 19, 2020 Khadhazha Welch #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black women, Gender, racism, Resistance

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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Black Queer Women and Femmes Fight for Housing Rights in Brooklyn

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Emily Batiste #Autoethnographies, Activism, Black Queers, class, COVID-19, race, racism, student activism

Editor’s note: This essay is part of our two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students at Brooklyn College. Read

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The Disappearance of Eve and Sall: Escaping Slavery in North Carolina

October 6, 2020October 4, 2020 Christy Hyman Black Ecologies, freedom, fugitivity, geography, race, slavery

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Between 1829

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Pauli Murray and the Need for Racial Reckoning

October 5, 2020October 4, 2020 Barbara Lau and Robin Kirk Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, education, Gender, race, racism, Resistance, sexuality, South

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

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