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Visualizing the End of Human Captivity

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Felicia Denaud art, book review, carceral state, police violence, prisons, race, violence

What happens to contemporary art when we foreground conditions in which expressive autonomy incites repression, surveillance, and severe punishment? What

Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

April 16, 2020April 12, 2020 Tracey Johnson art, Black Arts Movement, Black Power, book review, Chicago, Visual Culture

The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,

Holloway House and the Black Literary Underground

December 5, 2019November 30, 2019 Matthew Teutsch book review, culture, literature, popular culture, publishing, race

How do authors such as Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) and Donald Goines go from catering to white audiences with “black

Living with Crises in Port-au-Prince

December 4, 2019November 30, 2019 Antony Keane-Dawes book review, Caribbean, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Race and Economic History

Based on a decade’s worth of research in Haiti, the United States, and Canada, There is No More Haiti: Between

The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at