“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence
In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:
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Afro-Brazilians and Contemporary Lynchings in Brazil
In historical understandings of racial violence against African Americans in the United States, lynching typically summons imagery of white crime
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Cartoonist Jackie Ormes’ Commentary on Black Life
Writing in the Chicago Defender in 1948, Langston Hughes proclaimed, “If I were marooned on a desert island . . . I
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On Racism and Racial Violence in the Comics
This guest post is part of our blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter
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“An Outrage”: A New Film about Lynching in the American South
This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History
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