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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Women
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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The Mundane and Extraordinary Aspects of Black Women’s History: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross
This month I interviewed Kali Nicole Gross about her new book, Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso (Oxford University Press, 2016). Dr. Gross is
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Una Mulzac, Black Women Booksellers, and Pan-Africanism
*This is the third post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.
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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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