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A Theory of Black Queer History

May 19, 2023May 17, 2023 Jennifer Dominique Jones #DiscoBallBetweenUs, #Roundtable, Black Studies, methods, Queer Black Studies

This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. In the essay,

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The Fight for Fountain Square

February 15, 2023February 9, 2023 E. James West Cincinnati, DOCUMERICA, Fountain Square, segregation, urban history

The intersections of race and place lie at the heart of my ongoing DOCUMERICA series for Black Perspectives. Through the

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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Part 2

March 3, 2022March 2, 2022 Kwabena Slaughter black art, Christianity, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Storytelling, Writing

For Part One from last week, click here. Since its publication in 1969, the biography written by Marcia M. Mathews

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Mystic Stories From The Sketchbooks of Henry Ossawa Tanner

February 24, 2022February 23, 2022 Kwabena Slaughter black art, Christianity, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Storytelling, Writing

In addition to making paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner also expressed his creativity by writing stories. Most of them sit silently

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