Beyonce, Ameriican Requiem, and Reclaiming Genre
“Nothing really ends, for things to stay the same they have to change again” On March 29, 2024, Beyoncé released
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Black Women Public Intellectuals in U.S. History and Culture
The field of Black women’s intellectual history has experienced a renaissance in recent years. Works such as Toward an Intellectual …
Enshrining Black Countermodernism & New Deal Skepticism
J.J. Butts’ new work, Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project, provides a close reading of the ways …
Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through …
