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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

New Challenges, New Ideas, and Black Reformers of Pittsburgh

February 7, 2023February 4, 2023 Brandon James Render #AAIHSRoundtable, #CanaanDim, Activism, black intellectual history

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. In a recent Twitter

Black Chicagoans, The Great Migration, and Nature

November 3, 2022November 6, 2022 Jason Martin Chicago, class, Jim Crow, Nature, Park

In Landscapes of Hope, author Brian McCammack brings together topics such as recreation, celebration, resistance, class conflict, protest, and activism.

Black Christian Faith: Perennial Decline, Respectability, and “the back of the church”

February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 Vaughn A. Booker #PewResearchForum, Black church, Black Protestantism, Black Religion, Humor, religion

In the wake of Black religious affiliation surveys, Afro-Protestants have often implored religious institutions (churches, denominations, colleges, associations, conventions, seminaries)

Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here. The politics

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