Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved
Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,
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Sexuality
Uncovering the Voices of Working-Class Black Women in Harlem
Today is the second day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: A New Book on Black Women in New York City
Today is the beginning of our online roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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Nate Parker, Rape Culture, and Toxic Masculinity
Over the past seventy-two hours, the Internet has been abuzz over Nate Parker’s involvement in a seventeen-year-old rape case. Journalists
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Sex, Blood, and Belonging in the Early Republic
The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.
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