The Life of Betsey Stockton
Gregory Nobles’s new book, The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom, is a tour de force.
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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination
Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,
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The Meaning of Black Inexpression
Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a
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Afrofuturism in the Classroom
The groundbreaking Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler (2019), edited by Tarshia Stanley, features a powerful essay by my colleague
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The History of Black Women and Violence
Anti-blackness, including the violent events our society typically invokes when reflecting on racism, often centers on the violence inflicted on
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