Search Results for: Movement for Black Lives

Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

May 27, 2020May 23, 2020 Anna L. Hinton

This week we are revisiting Therí A. Pickens’s new book, Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press, 2019). Today we

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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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Black Lives & Native Lands: Rewriting the History of New England

May 5, 2020May 3, 2020 David Guzman African Diaspora, slavery

The study of slavery in New England has experienced something of a revival in the last decade. Given that New

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Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Queer Asylum and The Year of Return

March 30, 2020March 29, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, Black Queer Identity, Immigration, LGBT

In the wake of Black History Month, I turn towards Black relations: of blood, of nation, of necessity, and the

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