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Keyana has come up with the perfect idea for a class project

both during her time as a successful attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her

the planetary dynamics of geology

This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant

Good Dress Refugees In these pages we meetFollowing the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Brittany Rogers's Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, this collection witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems