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Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

On the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 19, 2021February 22, 2021 Keelyn Bradley #AudreLorde, black intellectual history, Black political thought, Black Queers, Black Studies, Gender, race, racism, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde The spectacle of a dying

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The Contours of Black Studies in American Public Schools

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Alexander Hyres Black Studies, education, ethnic studies, race, student activism

Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post about

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The Bond of Live Things Everywhere: What Black Nature Might Look Like

July 21, 2020July 20, 2020 Roshad Demetrie Meeks #BlackEcologies, Black Studies, blackness, environment, literature, poetry

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. What does

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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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Intimate Historical Practice

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Sarah Haley #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Historical Memory, literature, race, slavery

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked

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