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Cassander L. Smith is with us on Zoom, speaking on "Black Women and the Stakes of Respectability in the Early Americas"! We are live-tweeting the event RIGHT HERE!

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Dr. Smith has based this talk around her upcoming book with @lsupress, titled "Race and a Politics of Respectability in Early Black Atlantic Literature".
On the impact of her 1st experience with #respectabilitypolitics: "It is part of my hard-wiring. That same kind of hard-wiring that makes black folks avoid driving through upscale neighborhoods with the music turned up loud...Or sit mute and passive when pulled over by the cops."
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