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Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability

April 25, 2017May 1, 2017 Sara P. Díaz #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. More than fifty years

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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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On Transnational Black Feminism

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism

At the recent OAH conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I participated in a roundtable on “Transnational Circulations of Feminism in

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Black Feminist Futures: A Reading List

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Kathleen E. Bethel black feminism, black politics, Black women

In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its

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