Search Results for: theorizing race

A Family History of British Empire

February 5, 2021January 30, 2021 Mary Hicks African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

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The Interior Lives of Black Youth

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Jim Crow, Resistance

In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History

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Reckoning with Carceral Technologies Through Abolition

November 17, 2020November 23, 2020 Brittany Friedman #ThoseWhoKnow, carceral state, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

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Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and the Archive of Freedom

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Natasha Lightfoot #CapitalismandSlavery, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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The Intersections of Blackness and Disability

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 Moya Bailey black feminism, Black film, disability

I’m listening to jazz as I write this review. This was an intentional decision as I felt Therí Alyce Pickens’s

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