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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

November 21, 2023December 1, 2023 Frances O'Shaughnessy Politics, race, reconstruction, Resistance

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through

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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement

November 17, 2023November 7, 2023 A’Dorian Murray-Thomas black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily

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A Womanist Dancing Mind in Wilderness Archives

November 16, 2023October 29, 2023 Jaimie D. Crumley #WomanistTheology, archives, black feminism, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ To enter the archive as a historian who studies the

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Womanist Imagination and Liberation from the Politics of Colorblind Positivism

November 15, 2023October 31, 2023 Joshua Ro Bible, Black Theology, Christianity, Theology, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ In a 2018 podcast debate with journalist Ezra Klein, popular

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Womanist Theology and the Purple Perspective

November 14, 2023October 29, 2023 Marlas Yvonne Whitley #WomanistTheology, Black women, religion, Womanism, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.” Alice Walker’s definition of womanist—“womanist is to feminist as purple

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