Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality
In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a
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Gender
The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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“all mother” (A Poem)
should not shock me that I am become my mother I mean I touch my belly button & there I
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We Live for the We: A New Book on the Political Power of Black Motherhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence
Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s
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