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View ArticleThe Poetic Theology of Essex Hemphill
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View Article“Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity
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View ArticleInterracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary
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View ArticleThe Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
View Article“Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity
This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.
View ArticleInterracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In 1969, the first interracial sex scene
View ArticleThe Man-Not: A New Book on the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
View ArticlePortraits of Black Womanhood
When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of
View ArticleTeenage Feminism Decades before “Girl Power”
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On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William
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