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✨ Award-winning Historian, Writer, and Professor | 📚 Latest Book: WITHOUT FEAR: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights (@wwnorton, 2025).

Aug 26, 2019, 10 tweets

I finally had a chance to go through 150+ packages of #books sent to me (yikes)! TYSM to the various publishers for keeping me in the loop on the new #scholarship in #BlackStudies, #History & #Gender Studies.🙏🏾Here's a thread of a few books I am very eager to read this fall.🙌🏾📚

By @ruha9: 'Captivating #Technology: #Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life' @DukePress

dukeupress.edu/captivating-te…

By @SaStrings: 'Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia' @NYUpress

nyupress.org/9781479886753/…

By @kcarterjackson: 'Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the #Politics of #Violence' @PennPress

upenn.edu/pennpress/book…

By @Prof_Suddler: 'Presumed Criminal: Black Youth and the #Justice System in Postwar New York' @NYUpress

nyupress.org/9781479847624/…

By @ProfOgbar: ((New Edition!)) 'Black Power:
#Radical Politics and African American Identity' @JHUPress

jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/black-po…

By @DwestonHaywood: 'Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black #Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement' @uncpressblog

uncpress.org/book/978146964…

By Dána-Ain Davis: '#Reproductive Injustice: #Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth' @NYUpress

nyupress.org/9781479853571/…

By @JeanneTheoharis & Brian Purnell: 'The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: #Segregation and Struggle outside of the South' @NYUpress

nyupress.org/9781479820337/…

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