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SJ Brison @brison.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a trying week for Dartmouth faculty, some excellent news: My brilliant friend and colleague, Kimberly Brown, was awarded the 2026 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize by the American Studies Association for Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning! library.brown.edu/create/libne...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"In 1840, a doctor named James Marion Sims established the surgery practice in Montgomery, AL where he and his mentee, Nathan Bozeman, developed the field of gynecology by experimenting on black enslaved women." He also invented the speculum. Link to the book, Materia Medica by Nicole N. Ivy here.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In "Sonorous Passages," Meina Yates-Richard attends to the ignored, muffled, and silenced women of the Black Atlantic literary tradition, showing how the sounds of Black maternal figures communicate freedom practices amid ongoing subjection. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/5UzYvvr

Cover of Sonorous Passages: Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary by Meina Yates-Richard. Cover is tan and features the sculpture "Ascend" by Maya Beverly, three black ceramic torsos expanding vertically, linked by bead-like orbs of glossy black and gold leaf. The title and author name are at the top and the subtitle at the bottom.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Roy DeCarava should be as well known as Ansel Adams.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Roy DeCarava, Mississippi Freedom Marcher, Washington, D.C., 1963

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Save 30% on Florencia San Martin's #NewBook "Alfredo Jaar," the first first critical academic survey devoted to the prominent Chilean-born artist. buff.ly/gt7ohSx

Cover of Alfredo Jaar: Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished by Florencia San Martín. The cover is white with black tree branches in the foreground. A silver cage sits amidst the white ground in a grey circle. The title is large and written in a black sans serif font right above the cage. The subtitle is written descending diagonally from the right towards the cage and title. The author’s name is in the bottom left corner. Immediately below it says, “With a Foreword by Wolfgang Kaleck”.

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social’s book “Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual” from the @mitpress.bsky.social was named a finalist in the multimodal works category of the 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards.

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ACLS Names 2026 Finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social co-curated a new exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at #Dartmouth that explores how photography shapes our sense of how we are connected to both people and places. “Visual Kinship” is on view through November 29, 2025.

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New Exhibition Explores Photography's Connection to Belonging and Family

How does photography both shape and disrupt the notion of family?

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

"A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it." Shout out to @christiancentury.bsky.social for listing @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social's Black Elegies in its newsletter 📚 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255172...

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Black Elegies

In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the elongated grief borne of sustained racial viole...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"More than a meditation on mourning; it invites readers to see, hear and touch what hides in the shadow of loss that is the Black life." The Presbyterian Outlook reviews @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social's poignant book, "Black Elegies": pres-outlook.org/2025/07/blac... @presoutlook.bsky.social

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Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning - The Presbyterian Outlook

"Black Elegies" attempts to make visible the seen and unseen registers of grief in those marked by the transatlantic slave trade.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Look for the #OpenAccess digital edition from Brown University Digital Publications this August: on-seeing-black-elegies.org @browncds.bsky.social

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Black Elegies

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The second title in a new publication series devoted to visual literacy, "Black Elegies" is an unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature — everywhere, if you know how to see it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255172... @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social

A hand holding a copy of the book "Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning" by Kimberly Juanita Brown.

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

“I needed something that brought together my research concerns while allowing me space to write about the beauty of Black cultural productions.” In “Black Elegies” from @mitpress.bsky.social, professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social examines Black mourning practices across art forms. bit.ly/3FpP3p6

Kimberly Juanita Brown and the book cover for “Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning”

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Dartmouth recently celebrated the formal opening of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, marking the permanent establishment of a vibrant, welcoming nexus of research, creativity, and community, led by professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social.

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A Hub for Studying and Celebrating Black Life | Dartmouth

The Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life officially opens.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New in our On Seeing series, @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social's "Black Elegies" is a poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it:

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Black Elegies

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities, writes Kimberly Juanita Brown.

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The Most Mournful Rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” Ever Performed

Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities.

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Manny Voices @itsdrlittle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Black Messiah dropped 10 years ago this month. That's RIDICULOUS. open.spotify.com/track/2f9mmR...

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Another Life

D'Angelo · Black Messiah · Song · 2014

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Christoph Straub @cstraub.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#SaveTheDate: Join us for an evening with @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social (Dartmouth College) on December 12, 2024, at Amerikahaus! Brown will examine photography's long history as tethered to global histories of antiblackness. ➡️ Learn more & register (free admission): www.amerikahaus.de/ausstellunge...

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