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African American Print Culture: An Interview with Laura Helton

February 4, 2021January 30, 2021 Robert Greene II archives, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, library

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Laura Helton, whose article

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Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton’

February 2, 2021February 21, 2021 Shaun Armstead black feminism, blackness, popular culture, race, racism, Visual Culture

Since its release on Christmas Day, Bridgerton has attracted international attention for its racial cosmopolitan reenactment of early nineteenth-century Britain.

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Runaway Slaves To Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

January 28, 2021January 26, 2021 Nakia D. Parker African Diaspora, Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In May 2020, the New York Times published a story about the discovery of three skulls unearthed from a grave

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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder

January 25, 2021January 21, 2021 Tyler Parry Activism, African Diaspora, archives, Black women, Gender, Resistance, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their

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