Intersectional Health Equity in Brazil: An Interview with Kia Lilly Caldwell
In today’s post, Erica L. Williams, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, interviews Kia Lilly Caldwell about her new
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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War
Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which
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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender
“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s
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Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes
September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of
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Ethel Mae Matthews and the Emmaus House in Atlanta
Fifty years ago, Emmaus House opened its doors for the first time. Located in Peoplestown, a deprived neighborhood southeast of
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