Decolonizing Diasporas proposes a new way to read the literary and cultural productions of
the Afro-Atlantic. Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking Sub-Saharan African and Afro …

In the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for
enslavement while abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both …

Drawing from an arts-based research and humanizing methodologies, Dywanna Smith
documents transformative and liberatory spaces in ELA middle level classrooms, where …

Black feminisms offer lenses through which Black women can resist and re-exist under new
emancipatory conditions. Part of that work is uncovering roots and routes through which …

This chapter discusses the meaning, possibility, and contributions of Black feminist
philosophy. The chapter discusses a politics of refusal that characterizes Black women's …

Although she was intellectually outcasted during her lifetime, Zora Neale Hurston and her
“controversial” politics have been reclaimed by feminists (especially black feminists) since …

This chapter examines a key paradox, one that is important to examine as intersectionality
“travels” and is widely employed: delving into the history of Black feminist thought reveals …

Critical race theory (CRT), a legal theory of race and racism, is increasing in popularity
throughout the academy and beyond. Higher education scholars, in particular, have …

In this article, I explore some harms that emerge from the call for charity in academic
philosophy. A charitability gap, I suggest, exists both between who we tend to read …

“Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this
wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence …