“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence
In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:
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Women
Online Roundtable: Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy
May 21-25, 2018 Black Perspectives is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights (JCHR)* to host a roundtable on Ula Y. Taylor’s
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Black Women and the Scottsboro Boys
On March 25, 1931, nine young Black men—Haywood Patterson, Clarence Norris, Charlie Weems, Andy and Roy Wright, Olin Montgomery, Ozie
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Black Women As Theorists: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power When I began the research for Remaking Black
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Black Power and the Gendered Imaginary
Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is an essential new text in the recent historiography
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