Wakanda and Black Feminist Political Imagination
*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter
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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent
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Black German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute
When the opening session of the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute began on August 2, 1991, in a
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Teenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls
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Portraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
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