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Disrupting Racism and Global Exclusion in Academic Publishing: Recommendations and Resources for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors

Following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, a brief window of time opened to “take audacious steps to address systemic racial inequality.”
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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 the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept o
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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 AgeFor my sanity, I’ve mostly avoided politics this 2024 season. Yet somehow, I found myself glued to the television for the recent State of the Union address — the “superbowl” for politi
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Social Movements and the Law: Talking about Black Lives Matter and #MeToo

by Lolita Buckner Inniss (Editor), Bridget J. Crawford (Editor)
Nov 2024

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