Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an
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Memory
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of Childhood
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the
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The History of White Investment in Black Suffering
Possessing the Black body is as popular now as it has ever been. The recent college yearbook controversies depicting students in
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