Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, United Kingdom

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.

Will the Sissy be Triumphant?

By Marlon Ross 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.

Black Trans Feminism

By Marquis Bey NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, Trans

Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.

Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 2

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity

Part 2 of a roundtable on what global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control can tell us about our white supremacist present

Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 1

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity

What can global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control tell us about our white supremacist present?

In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men

By Thomas Foster Early America, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.