Veil and Vow: Aneeka Ayanna Henderson Discusses Marriage in Contemporary Black Culture
Aneeka Ayanna Henderson is the author of Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture (February 2020) published
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Women
Disability: What Have Black People Got to Do with It?
*This piece is part of the Blackness, Disability, & Gender Identity Series organized by Vilissa Thompson. “What comes first for
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Centering Women in Occupied Territory
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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Surviving Slavery: Contests Over Bondage in Berbice
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice
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Reimagining Liberation: A New Book about Black Women who Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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