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Many associate post-World War I culture with Hemingway and Fitzgerald's Lost Generation. But for black artists, writers and thinkers, the war changed the way they saw their past and their future.
In the 19th century, critics and audiences thought blacks were incapable of singing as well as their white, European counterparts. Greenfield forced them to reconcile their ears with their racism.
Hair has long been a source of anxiety and shame for African-Americans. One psychologist has made it her life's work to reverse this trend.
Is the decline of the corner barbershop another indicator that male friendships and community ties are eroding? Or could it simply mean that concepts of masculinity are shifting?
Six of the nine people who died were black women. One year later, a Brandeis professor examines how black women have endured a legacy of racial violence in the U.S.
Fearing their neighborhood's rich history would be forever lost in the wake of Katrina, residents teamed up with a group of volunteers to create a museum of living history.
Black Like Us? – a new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art – looks at how blackness has been portrayed in American art through the years.
Before being crowned the "King of the Blues," a young Riley King honed his on-stage persona and made crucial contacts as a radio DJ.
Empire, a TV drama about a black hip-hop star turned music mogul, is breaking new ground by foregrounding 'risky' issues around race, sexuality and class.
Top contributors
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PhD researcher in the fields of Popular Culture and Postcolonialism, University of Western Australia
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Director, Institute for Popular Music, University of Rochester
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PhD candidate in African-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of California, Riverside
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Instructor in Music, Pennsylvania State University
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Associate Professor, Tulane University
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Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, Brandeis University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Illinois University
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Professor of English, Georgia State University
