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Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

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The Lemonade Reader: A New Book on Beyoncé’s Visual Album

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black women, Gender, Performance, religion, Resistance

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

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Dressed in Dreams: A New Book about the Power of Black Fashion

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, art, Black women, fashion, Gender, Resistance

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

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Everything is Necessary: A New Collection of Poetry

June 21, 2019June 10, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Caribbean, Jamaica, poetry

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

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Staging Habla de Negros: A New Book on Radical Black Performance in Early Modern Spain

June 18, 2019June 17, 2019 J. T. Roane African Diaspora, Black Europe, language, Performance, Resistance

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

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