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A Flash of Life and Light

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kevin Quashie #WaywardLives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Literary studies, literature, race, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. How to contend with

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Black Madness :: Mad Blackness — An Author’s Response

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 Therí A. Pickens #BlackMadness, black feminism, Black Studies, disability, Disability Studies, Literary studies, literature, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness I was surprised

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Re-Reading Madness and Blackness in Black Women’s Fiction

March 10, 2020March 9, 2020 Anna Hinton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMadness, disability, literature

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Therí A. Pickens’s Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Black Madness ::

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Watchmen, Haunting, and the Religious Imagination

February 12, 2020February 9, 2020 James Howard Hill, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #Watchmen, race, Racial Violence, religion, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  “There are people

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Contemplating the Black Atlantic

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, environment, environmentalism, Historical Memory

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

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