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Blackness at the Intersection

Recommended Citation Batra, K. (2025). Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews, and Annabel Wilson, eds. Blackness at the Intersection....

Kanika Batra Kanika Batra

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Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M Wright

Phiri, Aretha and Michelle M. Wright. 2023. Interview: ‘The elephant in the room’: talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright. C...

Aretha Phiri Aretha Phiri

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Critical Illegibility, Blackness and Scoring Dangerous Freedoms

My project examines the possibility of reconfiguring conventional literary analytic practice by crafting critical approaches which are less invested in rendering texts ‘transparent’ than in approximating, embracing and extending the transgressive energies and insights of creative texts.

Grace Musila Grace Musila
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