Kitchen Table History

Kitchen Table History

marginalia no. 8

Black freedom and Black beauty

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Jessica Marie Johnson
Dec 03, 2025
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Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Astra House, 2022).
Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Astra House, 2022).
Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Astra House, 2022).

Stephanie MH Camp, “Black Is Beautiful: An American History,” The Journal of Southern History 81, no. 3 (2015): 675.

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