Sublime

Scanning the library shelves, it’s easy to find high-profile books from the interwar period depicting Native Americans and the western frontier (Little House on the Prairie is one), but prominent treatments of overseas territories are rare.

I seek to reveal how the colonial relationship between the United States and Hawai‘i has been constituted and intensified by cultural displays of hula since the U.S.-backed overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom.

being sterilized—and with little recourse to challenge the act.

‘Many seasons ago: slavery and its rejection among foragers on the Pacific Coast of North America’

the papers of the Southern Conference Education Fund, is my mother talking in 1974 about the indigenous prison struggle, meaning Black Southerners recognizing that locking people up was a tool of social control.

landowners in the South relied on cotton production—and the exploited labor of Black people—to maintain their economic power.

the rhythms of loss and asylum, exodus and loneliness, roll like floods across human history.

My passion for ancient history and archaeology also gives me perspective.

There is no single Black perspective. Nor is “The Black Experience” a concept that can be easily captured, branded, and packaged with a beautiful design bow. The essence of Blackness is simultaneously complex, deeply rooted, deeply felt, and above all else, human.