‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Gender
Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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A Black Womanist Requiem for Katie G. Cannon
Katie G. Cannon’s untimely death, has compelled me to begin this reflection at the funeral. Not hers; but my first funeral
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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles
In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory
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Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks
Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced
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