Exceeding the Bounds of the Black International
This post is part of our online roundtable on Christopher Tounsel’s Bounds of Blackness. Recent scholarship has probed a Black
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Race-Making Across Borders: How Sudan Challenges the Study of Race
This post is part of our online roundtable on Christopher Tounsel’s Bounds of Blackness. What defines Blackness, and who gets to decide? In
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Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in Lawless Times
We rarely read stories about unrespectable women. When we do, they are often white, middle class, heterosexual, and cisgender. Unrespectable
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Black Women’s Criminalization, Sexual Exploitation, and Dehumanization
In the early summer of 2025, the nation became aware of the story of Adriana Smith, a Black woman from
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Weapons of the Furious: Vengeance Feminism as “Loving Correction”
Kali Nicole Gross’s Vengeance Feminism: The Power of Black Women’s Fury in Lawless Times opens with the story of how
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