Slave Trading and the “When” of Gender
In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman
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Time, Space, and Memory at Whitney Plantation
On February 28, 2015, the last day of Black History Month 2015 (or Black Future Month as the #blacklivesmatter and
Read moreThe Idea of the Black Intellectual
When I first began to teach a class titled Black Intellectual Thought, I wanted to broaden the classic definition of
Read moreA Bibliography of African American Freethought
Over the past two years, I have been conducting research for a book project on African American freethought, an orientation
Read moreBlack Women’s Histories: Conversations
As a regular writer and blogger for Ms. Magazine, I have been engaging in some fruitful conversations with black feminist
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