Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century: A New Book on Black Girls in Literature
This post is part of a recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in
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Gender
Black Women, Slavery, and Silences of the Past
Power does not enter the story once and for all, but at different times and from different angles. It precedes
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Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense
The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of
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Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved
Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: A New Book on Black Women in New York City
Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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