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Diaries Of A Prolific Professor: Undergraduate Research From The James Haskins Collection, Stephanie Y. Evans Phd

Stephanie Y. Evans PhD

Mapping the Haskins Legacy and an Imperative to Train Young Scholars: Race, Region, and Undergraduate Research

It seems unfathomable that someone who has written two hundred books could somehow remain

relatively unknown…unless, of course, the author were Black and from the American South. Further, it is beyond

belief that a university campus where such a prolific author dedicated three decades of teaching would be void

of physical tribute. But such is the case with the legacy of Dr. James Haskins who taught at the University of

Florida between 1977 and his passing in 2005. This collection of undergraduate student research …

What Child Is This?: Closely Reading Collectivity And Queer Childrearing In Lackawanna Blues And Noah’S Arc, Vincent L. Stephens

Vincent L Stephens

Increasing hostilities toward intimate change are rooted in longstanding affective investments in a sexual normativity that oppresses multiple strands of intimacy, including African American kinship networks and same-sex coupling. Since homosexuality is always racialized sexuality and African American kinship patterns have always been marginal by U. S. heteronormative standards, the present essay unmasks the ways sexual normativity has obscured collectivity as a resistive strategy in the lives of two "alternative" intimate groups with important overlaps, black gay and lesbian communities and African American extended families. The essay interrogates sexual normativity by defining and affirming the relevance of black collectivity to …