Benson complicates the distinction between the flag as image and the flag as object
the political economy of fees and fines
The collection of texts is supplemented by letters and extracts from related scenarios /scriptsand rounded out with an index of the people involved
Exiled in 1955 from the US for her affiliation to the Communist Party
Jayna Brown: Black Utopias, Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds Dazed and Confused Benson complicates the distinction betweenDuke University Press, 2021, Softcover, 224 pages, 22. 8 15. 2 cm In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians