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africana studies

Sepia photo of two young black boys sitting on mules/horses that are connected to carriages
Special Collections
Century-old selfies
Published March 7, 2018
Two undergrads create exhibit of historical African-American photos found in JHU's Special Collections
Book cover of The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
NONFICTION
Indispensable reference
Published Winter 2017
'The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers' shines a light on a lesser-known era of journalists, playwrights, poets, etc. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Hollis Robbins
Q+A
Talking with Hollis Robbins
Published Winter 2017
In Hollis Robbins' view, 19th-century women were writing about the central issues of their time and ours: liberty, democracy, equality, and citizenship / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Lester Spence
Race and politics
Knocking the neoliberal hustle
Published Winter 2015
Lester Spence argues that African-Americans have bought into the wrong politics / Johns Hopkins Magazine