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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

I find that students intuitively understand the concept of the black public sphere as a “safe space” for the expression

This is a guest post by Emily England, a senior history and anthropology double major with a museum studies minor

“Body and Soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be

When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or