What Great Things Conferences Bring: Global Black Girlhood and the Fellowship/Scholarship of Black Women
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to participate in the Global History of Black Girlhood Conference at the University of Virginia, organized by Cori Fields and LaKisha Simmons. My head is still buzzing with all of the ideas that…
Singing the Nation Into Being: Anthems and the Politics of Black Female Performance
This project focuses on black women’s performance of James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing” to examine what these evocations might reveal about black subjectivities, diaspora, and identity formation vis-a-vis discourses on national belonging. Part of a larger Omeka-based project called…