In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneo

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Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private li

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health