Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective
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Black Girls
The Resilience of Black Love in Black History
When Michelle Obama’s appearance at the Biden/Harris inauguration set social media ablaze, many enjoyed imagining Barack Obama bragging about his
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A Family History of British Empire
“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,
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The Interior Lives of Black Youth
In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History
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Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Robin Mitchell’s preface to Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France is extremely moving. She begins with
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