Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a
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Silencing Black Women in the White Courtroom
On August 3, 1952, Ruby McCollum walked into Dr. C. LeRoy Adams’s medical practice in Live Oak, Florida and shot
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Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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Silence and the Inner Lives of Black Nationalist Women
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, Celia Jane Allen,
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Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement
“Sexual harassment? We didn’t even think to use the term back in the early fifties when this story takes place,”
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