University of Pennsylvania Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-pennsylvania-press/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png University of Pennsylvania Press Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/university-of-pennsylvania-press/ 32 32 What if Black Women Were Free? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-if-black-women-were-free/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42505 The transnational struggles of Black women throughout history are different experiments in the practice of freedom.

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]]> All the World’s a Page https://www.publicbooks.org/all-the-worlds-a-page/ Thu, 16 Jul 2020 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=37145 Paper was never simply a writing surface, but a complicated substance that folded itself into the fabric of culture and consciousness.

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]]> The Posthuman Enlightenment https://www.publicbooks.org/the-posthuman-enlightenment/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33096 What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these ...

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]]> And the Women Shall Lead Us https://www.publicbooks.org/and-the-women-shall-lead-us/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=25180 Our historical and contemporary images of black nationalism privilege the masculine. This is true whether in distant or recent memory. Images of black men dressed ...

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]]> Public Thinker: Keisha N. Blain on Black Women’s Intellectual History https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-keisha-n-blain-on-black-womens-intellectual-history/ Mon, 14 May 2018 15:00:06 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=20781 Keisha N. Blain has quickly become one of the most innovative and influential ...

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