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Georgina’s Lyric, Toward a Black American Grammar: Get Out, Black Women, the Black Historic Past, and the Message of Black Film Culture

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“These hoes ain’t loyal” –Chris Brown “And the women also knew” –Aisha Finch, Ph.D. “While contemporary black male intellectuals claim to challenge the hegemony of a racialized social formation, most fail to challenge the hegemony of their own assumptions about black masculinity.” –Hazel V. Carby, Ph.D. Grammer: the whole system and structure of a language […]

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Of Murders and Marches, Notes on (some) Women Marching: Black Women, Dangerous Men, and the Terms of Engagement

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On December 13, 2016 Sade Dixon was seated at her parents’ dining room table eating. The December dinner marked a difficult moment in Dixon’s life. Just three days earlier she moved back in with her parents as a result of experiencing physical abuse at the hands of Markeith Loyd. Before the physical altercation Dixon and […]