Afrofuturism in the Classroom
The groundbreaking Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia Butler (2019), edited by Tarshia Stanley, features a powerful essay by my colleague
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book review
The History of Black Women and Violence
Anti-blackness, including the violent events our society typically invokes when reflecting on racism, often centers on the violence inflicted on
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Deprovincializing Black Studies and Translating Blackness Beyond Borders
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness is a
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Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Margaret Burnham’s By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022) excavates little-known accounts of violence
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The Defender and Chicago’s Built Environment
In A House for the Struggle: The Black Press and the Built Environment in Chicago, author E. James West explores the
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