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On Performance and Black Theatre: An Interview with Playwright Nina Angela Mercer

April 29, 2017May 2, 2017 J. T. Roane theater

This interview is based on an oral history that I collected with Washington, D.C.-grown and Bronx, New York-based playwright Nina

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Respectability Politics and Shonda Rhimes, a Black Woman Showrunner

April 28, 2017May 1, 2017 Ralina Joseph #politicsofrespectability, Black women, television

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Black women’s visibility on

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Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early Twentieth Century

April 24, 2017April 28, 2017 Jane Rhodes #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The politics of respectability

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Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: An Introduction

April 24, 2017April 27, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

by Ralina L. Joseph & Jane Rhodes In the Spring of 2014 the two of us, former dissertation advisor and

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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites

April 15, 2017April 18, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt freedom, reconstruction, violence

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

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