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An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life

May 18, 2023May 17, 2023 Kwame Edwin Otu #DiscoBallBetweenUs, black queer studies, Black Studies, Kente Clothe, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari

The Theoretical Usefulness of Mess and Black Queer Studies

May 17, 2023May 16, 2023 Emily R. Bock #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, methods

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. For a while

Online Roundtable–Jafari S. Allen’s ‘There’s a Disco Ball Between Us’

May 12, 2023May 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, black queer studies, Black Studies, Jafari S. Allen, Queer Theory

May 15–22, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Jafari

Visualizing Black Lives: An Author’s Response

April 7, 2023April 4, 2023 Reighan Gillam #Roundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, African Diaspora, Brazil, Latin America, MEDIA

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives. The study of racial dynamics and Black identity in

Black Brazilian Media Producers and the Nomination of Marte Um

April 6, 2023April 4, 2023 Watufani M. Poe #VisualizingBlackLives, Brazil, film, MEDIA, Oscars

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives. Marte Um (Mars One) was the Brazilian submission for