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Disability: What Have Black People Got to Do with It?

April 22, 2020May 16, 2020 Angel Love Miles #Blackness&Disability, Black women, blackness, disability, Disability Studies, intersectionality, race

*This piece is part of the Blackness, Disability, & Gender Identity Series organized by Vilissa Thompson. “What comes first for

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(In)Articulate while Black

April 2, 2020March 29, 2020 Yannick Marshall blackness, literacy, race, racism

I imagine that there are people who believe that Black people are too sensitive. When Blacks are called “well-spoken,” or

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Madness Has the Range

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 Zandria F. Robinson #BlackMadness, black feminism, Black Studies, blackness, disability, Disability Studies, Literary studies, literature, race

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

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Essex Hemphill. Photo: Poetry Foundation.

Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography

June 28, 2019June 26, 2019 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, race, Resistance, sexuality

To close out Pride Month 2019, I compiled a list of texts ranging from traditional academic works to cultural

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Black Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability

May 10, 2019April 29, 2019 J. T. Roane blackness, disability, embodiment, race

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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