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How Gentrification and Displacement are Remaking Boston

August 9, 2018August 16, 2018 Zebulon Miletsky and Tomas Gonzalez Boston, gentrification, segregation

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We continue with this essay by Zebulon Miletsky and

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Disability, Race, and Gender in Speculative Fiction

August 3, 2018August 8, 2018 Grace D. Gipson Afrofuturism, black feminism, Black women, blackness, disability, Gender, intersectionality, literature

“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there

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Between Europe and the Black Atlantic

July 27, 2018August 8, 2018 Caroline Bressey art, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Sharla M. Fett literature, slave trade, slavery, Zora Neale Hurston

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

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Race and Identity in Medieval Europe

July 20, 2018July 23, 2018 Lynn Ramey Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Literary studies, poetry

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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