(Pennsylvania Press, 2025) published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary.
The volume focuses particularly on three main topics: Shadd Cary鈥檚 relationship to immigration, nation, and colonization; the Black creative and nation-building work that Shadd Cary has inspired; and contemporary research methodologies like digital humanities as they can be used to better understand Shadd Cary鈥檚 moment, impacts, and life. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary lens, the collection celebrates Shadd Cary鈥檚 cultural significance and intellectual contributions, as well as their reverberations in her time and in ours.