Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: An Introduction
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
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
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
In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its
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On Barbados, the First Black Slave Society
Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized by Britain’s ruling elites. They made their
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