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Idris Elba and John Ridley on the set of Guerrilla. Photo: IMDB.

To Be (Politically) Black and British

May 3, 2017May 6, 2017 Nicole Jackson Activism, black politics, Black women, Blacks in Britain, Politics, television

At a recent preview screening for the first episode of Guerrilla, a joint SKY Atlantic/Showtime production, members of the audience

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Shonda Rhimes. Photo: James White / Simon & Schuster via NPR.

Respectability Politics and Shonda Rhimes, a Black Woman Showrunner

April 28, 2017May 1, 2017 Ralina Joseph #politicsofrespectability, Black women, television

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Black women’s visibility on

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Roger Arliner Young. Photo: ASU HPS Repository.

Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability

April 25, 2017May 1, 2017 Sara P. Díaz #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. More than fifty years

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Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early Twentieth Century

April 24, 2017April 28, 2017 Jane Rhodes #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The politics of respectability

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Two African American women, half-length portrait, facing each other (Daniel Murray Collection, Library of Congress).

Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: An Introduction

April 24, 2017April 27, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

by Ralina L. Joseph & Jane Rhodes In the Spring of 2014 the two of us, former dissertation advisor and

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