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An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 Kwame Edwin Otu #DiscoBallBetweenUs, black queer studies, Black Studies, Kente Clothe, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari

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Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions

May 11, 2023May 9, 2023 Asia Thomas Uzomba Black women, Nat Turner, Slave Rebellion, slavery, Southampton Rebellion

Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,

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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 Frank Kalisik race, slavery

In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part II

May 3, 2023August 7, 2023 Menika Dirkson art, interview, lynching, Memory, methods

Today’s post is the second part of Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson interview of Mari N. Crabtree on her

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Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree Part I

May 2, 2023August 20, 2023 Menika Dirkson Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Black Perspectives’ regular contributor, Menika Dirkson, interviews Mari N. Crabtree on her most recent book publication, My Soul Is a

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