“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power
When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or
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Slave Trading and the “When” of Gender
In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman
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As a regular writer and blogger for Ms. Magazine, I have been engaging in some fruitful conversations with black feminist
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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment
During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across
Read moreRosa Parks, Radicalism, and Remembrance
Its Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out the iconic images of African American freedom fighters including
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