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View ArticleThe Future Is Black and Female: Afrofuturism and Comic Books
For comic book and superhero fans worldwide, the release of Captain America: Civil War on May 6, 2016 became permanently
View ArticleThe Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg
In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg
View ArticleThe Subversive Praxis of Black Beauty and Wealth
Having rocked the cosmetics industry last month with her new line of products, Fenty Beauty, pop star Rihanna (née Robyn
View ArticleThe Tears, Struggles, and Hopes of Black Women
A video of Angela Davis’s reception in Bahia, Brazil this summer captures a moment of unbridled joy. She walks into
View ArticleRemaking Black Power: A New Book on Women and Black Power
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
View ArticleBlack Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle
View ArticlePortraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
View ArticleThe Tears, Struggles, and Hopes of Black Women
A video of Angela Davis’s reception in Bahia, Brazil this summer captures a moment of unbridled joy. She walks into
View ArticleRemaking Black Power: A New Book on Women and Black Power
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
View ArticleBlack Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle
View ArticlePortraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
View ArticleTeenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”
*This post is part of our online forum on Student Activism. As civil disobedience in schools escalated in the postwar era, teenage girls
View ArticleBlack German Women and the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer...
When the opening session of the Fifth Cross-Cultural Black Women’s Studies Summer Institute began on August 2, 1991, in a
View ArticleThe Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent
View ArticleA Womanist Perspective of the Black Power Movement
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power:
View ArticleThe Fearless Nature of Remaking Black Power
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley Farmer’s comprehensive text, Remaking Black Power: How
View ArticleBlack Power and the Gendered Imaginary
Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era is an essential new text in the recent historiography
View ArticleBlack Women As Theorists: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power When I began the research for Remaking Black
View ArticleBlack on Both Sides: A New Book on the Racial History of Trans Identity
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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