African-American Studies

Jones

Micah Jones completed a PhD in African American Studies and History at Yale University. Her project, "Jim Crow Prerogatives: Race and Consumption in the United States South, 1890-1980," examines Black southerners’ experiences grocery shopping in the Jim Crow South. It contends that groceries, as racially mixed spaces amidst segregation, were key sites of race-making. It demonstrates how grocery stores laid the groundwork for a facially race neutral, but functionally racist, post-Jim Crow racial regime.

Polk

Olivia Polk is a doctoral candidate in the departments of American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. Polk's project, “We Can Dream the Dark,” excavates the archive of Black lesbian cultural production since 1977. It argues that this archive’s experiments in aesthetic form yields a robust social ethic— Black lesbianism— that has shaped Black queer radical politics from the early HIV/AIDS pandemic to contemporary responses the climate crisis.

 

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