My Reads.

I love experimenting with new books in the classroom. Some of the books that we are exploring are:

Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Kelisha B. Graves’ Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959

Ange-Marie Hancock’s Intersectionality: An Intellectual History

Monica M. White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and The Black Freedom Movement.

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’ They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy’s Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington D.C., 1920-1945

B. Christine Arce’s The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women

LaShawn Harris' Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy.

I also enjoy experimenting with media and lyrical texts to help students understand the relevance and application of feminist theories. Some of the media texts that we are exploring are:

• Issa Rae’s “Insecure”

• “Bessie” HBO movie

• “The Shop” HBO series

• “Surviving R. Kelly” Lifetime series

• “The Foxy Five” YouTube series

• Billy Porter’s “Pose” Netflix series

• “Queen Sugar” Oprah Winfrey Network

• Solange Knowles’ “When I Get Home”

• Beyonce Knowles’ “Homecoming”

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Danielle Phillips-Cunningham: Women's and Gender Studies courses