Contributors
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Freeden Blume Oeur is associate professor of sociology and education at Tufts University and a past postdoctoral fellow with the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests include the sociology of gender and masculinity, Black feminism, children and youth, and African American intellectual politics and intellectual history. Blume Oeur is the author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and co-editor of Unmasking Masculinities: Men and Society (Sage, 2017).
Katharine Capshaw is professor of English and Africana Studies affiliate at the University of Connecticut, where she also serves as associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is author of Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Indiana University Press, 2004) and Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), as well as co-editor of Who Writes for Black Children? African American Literature before 1900 (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Capshaw is at work on a book about the Black Arts movement and children's theater.
Brigitte Fielder is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press, 2020) and co-editor of Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). She is currently writing a book about racialized human-animal relationships in the long nineteenth century, which shows how childhood becomes a key site for (often simultaneous) humanization and racialization.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas is associate professor in the Joint Program in English and Education and Educational Studies at the University of Michigan. A former Detroit Public Schools teacher and National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, she is a past chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Research and served on the 2020 National Book Awards Young People's Literature judges' panel. Currently, she is co-editor of the journal Research of the Teaching of English. Her most recent book is The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games (NYU Press, 2019).
Crystal Webster is a historian of race, gender, and childhood. She is assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of British Columbia. Webster received her PhD from the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her first book, Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North (June 2021), was published through UNC Press. She has also published scholarship in multiple venues, including The American Historian, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
