In nineteenth-century San Francisco, black community leaders sought to reach beyond the geographical limits of the Bay Area in their battle for equal rights in …
Soultelling for the People: The Black Storytelling Movement in the Post-Liberation Struggle, 1970s-1990s is a cultural history of the Black Storytelling Movement. Emerging out of …
"The Anticolonial Imagination" is an examination of race, migration, politics, and the history of ideas in the interwar period (1919-1939). Based on archival material collected …
The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1890-1950, focuses on the relationship between …
In this dissertation, I untangle how racialization affects the imagination. I ask, "How are visions of the future constructed, reconfigured, and implemented?" Contemporary debates in …