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Documenting Black Appalachia

Migration has been a constant theme throughout my Black Perspectives series on African Americans and DOCUMERICA, a landmark 1970s photodocumentary

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a

The American metropolis and perceptions of the so-called “urban crisis” have loomed large in previous installments of my Race and

On January 10, 2022, a group of young mostly Black and Latinx cyclists known as Everyones Rideout took over a portion of Interstate

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. The violence is irrepressible. The names of those taken