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Black Lesbian Thought: An Interview with Briona Simone Jones

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Emerald Rutledge African Diaspora, black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, Gender, Historical Memory, LGBT, literature, race, Resistance, sexuality

In today’s post, Emerald Rutledge, an associate editor of Black Perspectives, interviews Briona Simone Jones on her new edited collection, Mouths of

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Excavating the History of Afro-Brazilian Women

April 5, 2021April 18, 2021 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, archives, Brazil, carceral state, Historical Memory, slavery

Only a few pages remain of what is cited as the first known text written by an Afro-Brazilian woman. Rosa

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Thinking with (Neo-)Colonialism in ‘Race for Profit’

March 11, 2021March 19, 2021 Jessica Ann Levy #RaceForProfit, African Diaspora, black protest, capitalism, Politics, Racial Violence

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ In the aftermath of the sixties’ Black rebellions,

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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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Audre Lorde: Meet

February 18, 2021February 22, 2021 Alexis Pauline Gumbs African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism, sexuality

1.arrangement “There is a place here where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and it is very magical,

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