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For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil’s quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants,...

Dr. Candice Jenkins, English and African American Studies, has just released a new book entitled Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh (Minnesota 2019).

In Private Lives, Proper Relations, Candice M. Jenkins addresses the question of why contemporary African American literature—particularly that produced by black women—is continually concerned with...