Jenn M. Jackson

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Jenn M. Jackson

is a queer androgynous Black woman, abolitionist, lover of all Black people, and assistant professor at Syracuse University’s Department of Political Science. Their books include Black Women Taught Us (Penguin Random House, 2024) and the forthcoming Policing Blackness (University of Chicago Press, 2025).


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At Home in Exile
The stolen souls aboard the Clotilda slave ship’s final, illegal voyage remained suspended across space and time.

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