Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways
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New Negro
Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy
As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.
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How Family History Opens New Archives
This post is part of our forum on “The Significance of the Black Family in the US.” Coming of Age
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The Interior Lives of Black Youth
In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History
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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers
In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that
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