Abstract
We open with three events, only two of which bear an obvious relationship to one another. The first are the killings of two young black people, Sakia Gunn and Trayvon Martin. The third is a controversy that erupted in the wake of provocative blog posts about eliminating black studies programs written by conservative commentator Naomi Schaefer Riley on the Chronicle of Higher Education website.
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McGlotten, S., Davis, DA. (2012). Introduction. In: McGlotten, S., Davis, DA. (eds) Black Genders and Sexualities. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137077950_1
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