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A Flash of Life and Light

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kevin Quashie #WaywardLives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Literary studies, literature, race, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. How to contend with

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Intimate Historical Practice

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Sarah Haley #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Historical Memory, literature, race, slavery

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked

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Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Studies, literature

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery

April 1, 2020March 29, 2020 Iana Robitaille literature, slavery

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American

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