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Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

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Shonda Rhimes. Photo: James White / Simon & Schuster via NPR.

Respectability Politics and Shonda Rhimes, a Black Woman Showrunner

April 28, 2017May 1, 2017 Ralina Joseph #politicsofrespectability, Black women, television

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Black women’s visibility on

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TS Madison. Photo: Huffington Post.

Representation, Respectability, and Transgender Women of Color in Media

April 27, 2017May 1, 2017 Julian Glover #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The past decade ushered

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Rosa Parks. Photo: Encyclopedia Britannica.

Rosa Parks and the Image of Respectability

April 26, 2017May 1, 2017 Katharina Fackler #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, racism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Since the day she

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Roger Arliner Young. Photo: ASU HPS Repository.

Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability

April 25, 2017May 1, 2017 Sara P. Díaz #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. More than fifty years

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