Janell Hobson

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

Black Women’s Histories and the Power of Truth-Telling

January 16, 2018January 20, 2018 Janell Hobson Activism, Black women

Not long after Oprah Winfrey, the iconic media mogul and pioneer for African American women in film, television, and journalism,

Portraits of Black Womanhood

December 14, 2017December 18, 2017 Janell Hobson black feminism, Black women, Gender

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

The Subversive Praxis of Black Beauty and Wealth

October 20, 2017October 24, 2017 Janell Hobson black feminism, Black women, Caribbean, Gender

Having rocked the cosmetics industry last month with her new line of products, Fenty Beauty, pop star Rihanna (née Robyn

Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes

September 14, 2017September 16, 2017 Janell Hobson Black women, Caribbean, Gender, religion

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

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