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Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones 0 Comments
Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

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

November 18, 2022November 15, 2022 Paula C. Austin with Catherine Nelson and Donna Payne Wilson #BlackFamily, black youth, D.C., Family history, Jim Crow, youth

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

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Jim Crow, Resistance

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

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

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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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: A New Book About Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Jim Crow, New Negro, Resistance, Washington DC, youth

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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