False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left
Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those
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Interwar Period
The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter
Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe
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The Art of Life: A New Book on Black Lives in Apartheid South Africa
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response
Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories
Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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