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Engaging Wayward Methods

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kwame Holmes #WaywardLives, Black women, Historiography, methods

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Southwest Washington, D.C. was

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Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

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Intimate Historical Practice

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Sarah Haley #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Historical Memory, literature, race, slavery

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked

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Black Amazonia: Environmental Knowledge In the Struggle for Black Liberation In Brazil

May 14, 2020May 11, 2020 Tianna Bruno Black Ecologies, Brazil, environment, geography, Historical Memory, South America

The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship

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Claiming Freedom in the Low Country

May 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Adam McNeil Georgia, landownership, slavery

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

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