Black Studies

Q&A with Matthew Morrison, author of Blacksound

Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy (the first original form of American popular music) and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of …

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How Online Black Resistance Efforts Outlive Political Clickbait

By Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd, author of Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age For my sanity, I’ve mostly avoided politics this 2024 season. Yet somehow, I found myself glued to …